A new Russian venture capital fund, Runa Capital has been launched by Serguei Beloussov, chairman of Parallels and Acronis, and Alexander Galitsky, founder of Almaz Capital Partners. The fund will offer about $30 million in seed financing to software and internet early stage companies.
Runa Capital will invest in rapid growth sectors including cloud computing, machine learning, virtualization, mobile and internet applications.
Runa Capital’s mission is to provide capital, expertise and strategic leverage that will elevate talented Russian tech teams into globally competitive businesses.
Runa Capital investment activities will be supported by Runapark business incubator. The incubator will provide the environment where promising Russian startups will become world class technology companies.
Runa Capital list of venture partners include some well-known high-tech entrepreneurs and investors: Andreas Gauger and Achim Weiss, co-founders of the world’s largest hosting provider 1&1, Ilya Zubarev, co-founder of Rolsen and Acronis, Igor Borovikov, founder of the largest Russian software distributor Softline, Charles Ryan, ?hairman of UFG Asset Management, and Igor Daniloff, founder of ‘Doctor Web’ antivirus company.
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