Runa Capital
Smart money for smart startups
Runa Capital
is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm guiding the next generation of tech startups to become leaders in the global market.
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PARTNERS
Runa Capital management team unites entrepreneurs and experts with over 15 years of experience in developing tech companies to drive the next wave of startups to success.
HOW WE INVEST
Investment AREAS
software
internet
mobile
Investment size
$3M average
Series
INVESTMENT FOCUS
- cloud for SMB
- Cloud for education, public services, FINANCE AND HEALTH
- complex software
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Focus on key competencies
We select projects based on the key competencies of our partners: software and Internet services including social and mobile applications
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Extended cloud ecosystem
We efficiently utilize the resources of our greater ecosystem – Parallels, Acronis, 1&1/United Internet and other projects – to expand startups’ intellectual resources and sales channel
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Barriers against competition
We look for projects with a high degree of ‘hard-to-clone’ or ‘long-to-clone’, potentially patentable IP to ensure a natural barrier against competition.
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Efficient use of capital
We invest based on cofounder terms and prioritize projects with reasonable development and marketing timeframes, budgets and breakeven points.
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Hands-on approach
We actively guide and support each project, ranging from engineering, operations, strategy, future rounds and liquidity.
HOW WE HELP
Product development
“From the very beginning, Runa Capital were incredibly supportive and helpful and had unwavering faith in our company. During our product development, they provided invaluable advice, introductions and endorsements that enabled us to gain the confidence and new business relationships with our first hosting partners, as well as with technical partners like Parallels.”
Operations
“Runa Capital has partnered with Nginx from our very first investment round and has supported us since then in every subsequent round. Runa’s team assisted us greatly with corporate structure and insights into specific issues for non-American founders. They were involved day to day, in matters ranging from general operational issues to detailed constructive criticism of our fund raising pitch deck.”
Business development
“Who needs money anyway? Money get pumped into banks at nearly zero interest rate. Runa’s investment is more than money. Their team is an amazing crew of seasoned professionals and entrepreneurs. Available when you need their expertise, out of your way when you don’t. Runa’s knowledge, network and trust has been a very important part of Ecwid success. ”
Next level
“Runa fully appreciates how to build products that satisfy customers, this makes Runa Capital a truly special partner for any early stage technology company.”
Cloud and business ecosystem
We focus on what we excel in and utilize synergies between projects to attain success. Pivotal to this strategy is our wide network of IT companies which provides an interconnected support system for business development and expertise in cloud technology.
Portfolio
Team
Serguei Beloussov
Senior Partner
Ilya Zubarev
Senior Partner
Dmitry Chikhachev
Managing Partner
Andre Bliznyuk
Partner
Peter Bauert
Partner
Gaidar Magdanurov
Venture Partner
Dmitry Galperin
Investment Director
Dmitry Saburov
Senior Analyst
Konstantin Vinogradov
Associate
Dmitry Pozdyakov
Head of Talent Operations
Oleg Melnikov
Chief Technology Officer
Ruslan Sarkisyan
Senior Associate
Jim Herman
VP Sales in Residence
Alexander Vidiborskiy
Senior Associate
RUNA BOOTCAMP
Runa Capital powered Runa Bootcamp in 2012 to accelerate startups’ success through hands-on educational and training program. Since then experts from Runa Capital, Parallels, Odin, Acronis and guest pros come together and share their insights on building a great technology company in practical discussion with startups.
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Quick facts
Investment facts
Pitch Us
We expect the following key items to be addressed in the business plan:
- Customer Problem: who has the problem and how you will solve it
- Product: what is the status and differentiation of technology solution
- Finance: how much capital is needed and how the proceeds will be used
- Market: how big is the market and what is the competitive landscape
- Business Model: what is the monetization strategy and exit options
- Team: what is the background and qualifications