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Runa Capital

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Runa Capital is $135 mln technology-focused venture capital firm whose investments have created or incubated companies with more than US$10 billion in assets. It was established to seek growth opportunities in the rapidly growing areas of the tech sector, with specific focus on cloud computing and other hosted services, virtualization and mobile applications. The key execution point is to select promising teams and drive and support them in the global marketplace, turning them into international champions. Founded by Serguei Beloussov, Ilya Zubarev (founders of Parallels and Acronis) , Dmitry Chikhachev (Ericsson, Ritzio, Uvenco) and advised by Alexander Galitsky (Almaz Capital Partners) Runa Capital is run by a team of successful entrepreneurs, most of whom have worked together for over 15 years. It is a united team with broad geographical and cross-industry experience, as well as an extensive professional network. Runa Capital investment team members possess an excellent track record in tech investments. 

 Runa Capital’s investments announced to date include: Nginx, Talkbits, Jelastic, Metabar, Travelmenu, BigTime® Software, Ecwid, StopTheHacker, Capptain, B2B-Center, Infratel, LinguaLeo, Dnevnik.ru. Runa’s first exit -from the UK company Thinkgrid- was on the August 2012. For more information, please visit www.runacap.com

Recent Milestones

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  Runa Capital invested in BackupAgent. (3/6/13)
  Posted 3/24/13 at 10:28pm via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in uBank. (2/25/13)
  Posted 2/25/13 at 6:19pm via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in GRUZOBZOR. (2/12/13)
  Posted 2/11/13 at 11:34pm via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Cellrox. (1/22/13)
  Posted 1/21/13 at 8:54pm via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in ClipClock. (11/7/12)
  Posted 11/7/12 at 8:17pm via finsmes.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Eruditor. (10/25/12)
  Posted 10/25/12 at 7:19am via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Talkbits. (10/17/12)
  Posted 10/18/12 at 4:52am via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Station X. (9/17/12)
  Posted 9/17/12 at 8:08am via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Dnevnik.ru. (9/4/12)
  Posted 9/4/12 at 9:29pm via finsmes.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Infratel. (8/7/12)
  Posted 8/7/12 at 5:57am via marketwire.com
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  Runa Capital — Russian Education Portal Dnevnik.ru Bags $5 Mln Funding From Runa Capital (6/18/12)
  Posted 6/18/12 at 3:32pm via invest-iq.net
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  Runa Capital invested in B2B-Center. (6/4/12)
  Posted 6/4/12 at 3:40am via prnewswire.com
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  Runa Capital — Runa Capital Invests In French Start-up Ubikod (4/5/12)
  Posted 4/13/12 at 1:36pm via invest-iq.net
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  Runa Capital — Runa And Parallels Join Hands To Promote Cloud Products (2/23/12)
  Posted 2/24/12 at 1:06pm via invest-iq.net
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  Runa Capital invested in StopTheHacker. (2/13/12)
  Posted 2/13/12 at 4:58am via techcrunch.com
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  Runa Capital invested in Dnevnik.ru. (1/1/12)
  Posted 9/3/12 at 11:08am via techcrunch.com

Investments

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Runa Capital Ups It Fund To $50M For Early-Stage Russian Startups (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Runa And Parallels Join Hands To Promote Cloud Products (invest-iq.net) [edit]
Runa Capital Invests In French Start-up Ubikod (invest-iq.net) [edit]
Russian Education Portal Dnevnik.ru Bags $5 Mln Funding From Runa Capital (invest-iq.net) [edit]
1. BackupAgent In The Netherlands Gets $2M From Moscow’s Runa Capital To Go Global (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. Russian Mobile Payment Startup uBank Raises $8M Series A From Runa Capital, Targets “Global” Expansion (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Russia’s Gruzobzor Raises $1M For Its B2B Platform For The Transportation Industry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. Cellrox Secures $4.7M Led by Runa Capital For Its BYOD Virtualization Solution (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. ClipClock Raises $2.5M in VC Funding from Runa Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
6. Another Online Labour-Booking Funding Win: Intel Capital Leads $4M Series A In Russia’s Eruditor (techcrunch.com) [edit]
7. Location-Based Voice-Messaging App Startup Talkbits Raises $2 Million From Early Stage VC Firm Runa Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
8. Station X Raises Additional $5M Led By Runa Capital To Help Crack The Genetic Code (techcrunch.com) [edit]
9. Dnevnik.ru Receives $5M in Funding from Runa Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]
10. Infratel Secures $3M in Funding to Build Telephony Solution for Channel & Cloud Providers Serving the SOHO Market (marketwire.com) [edit]
11. Da Vinci Capital, Insight Venture Partners, ALPHA Associates and Runa Capital invest in B2B-Center, Russia's Leading Online Procurement Marketplace (m.prnewswire.com) [edit]
12. StopTheHacker Helps Website Owners Combat Malware, Raises $1.1 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
13. Runa Capital Puts $5 million Into Education Platform With Expansion Plans (techcrunch.com) [edit]
14. Shopping Cart Software Maker Ecwid Raises $1.5M; Expands To US, UK (techcrunch.com) [edit]
15. ThinkGrid Secures Runa Capital Investment to Accelerate Growth (finsmes.com) [edit]
16. Russian Nginx Raises $3 Million From International Investors (techcrunch.com) [edit]
17. BigTime Raises $2M For Cloud-Based Time And Billing Management Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
18. Travelmenu secures $1.6M to push position in Russia and Ukraine (tnooz.com) [edit]
19. Runa Capital invests $1M in Russian Browser Apps Builder (pr-inside.com) [edit]
20. Hivext secures $500,000 from Runa Capital for its Cloud dev platform. (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
21. OnAir3G Raises $2M from Runa Capital (finsmes.com) [edit]