Runa Capital raises $135M second fund for later-stage U.S. and European startups
Summary
Focusing on series A and B investments in the USA and Europe, Runa Capital Fund II targets “companies with high ambitions on the global market,” essentially in the fields of complex enterprise software and cloud applications, education, public services, finance, and health. “The new fund logically follows our development over the past years,” said Dmitry Chikhachev, managing partner at Runa Capital. Launched in 2010 by Sergei Beloussov, Ilya Zybarev, and Dmitry Chikhachev, Runa Capital I initially focused on Russia. The fund progressively expanded its scope to investing globally, following a strong invest-abroad trend among Russian venture capitalists. Most recently, Runa led a $5.6 million round for SchoolMint, a leading provider of mobile and online enrollment systems for U.S. public, charter, and private schools.