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Microsoft Buys Mobile App Management Platform Capptain To Beef Up Azure
Yesterday, Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella noted that Azure, the company’s cloud platform, had more work to do get better traction with startups and developers — an area where one of its biggest cloud rivals, Amazon, has done well. Today, the company is taking a step to improve that: it has bought Capptain, a startup based out of Paris that provides app developers with… Read More
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Facebook Commerce Leader Ecwid Picks Up $5M As It Passes 500K Users
Ecwid, an e-commerce platform originally founded in Russia that lets merchants create online stores on social networks like Facebook, their own websites and on mobile, is today announcing a $5 million round of funding. The Series B investment was led by Russian VC iTech Capital, with participation also from Runa Capital, which led its last round. Jim O’Hara, Ecwid’s US-based… Read More
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Russian Mobile-First Banking Startup, RocketBank, Nabs $2M From Runa Capital
Another startup seeking to shake up the banking market with a convenient, mobile-first approach has just bagged $2 million in seed funding from Runa Capital. Russia’s RocketBank launched its service in July 2012 and has since accrued “a few thousand” iOS users. Its app includes the ability to pay a person without having to know their bank details. Read More
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Playtox Raises $3M From Runa Capital To Take Its App Store-Shunning Mobile Browser MMOs Global
Playtox, the Russian developer of free-to-play mobile browser-based games, has closed a $3 million Series A round of funding from VC firm Runa Capital. The company said it will use the funding to expand on the startup’s massively multiplayer online (MMO) titles “globally,” including the U.S., as well as in emerging markets. Read More
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Russian Mobile Payment Startup uBank Raises $8M Series A From Runa Capital, Targets “Global” Expansion
After co-investing in Mambu, a SaaS for alternative finance providers, earlier in the month, today sees Runa Capital fund another finance-related startup: An $8 million Series A round for uBank, a mobile payment service that currently targets Russia and the wider CIS region. The new capital will be used to “accelerate” product development and marketing, and for further global… Read More
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Helping To Grease The Wheels Of Capitalism In Emerging Markets, Mambu Raises $2M For Its SaaS For Alternative Finance Providers
Hot on the heels of closing a “new” €40m fund, Point Nine Capital is announcing its involvement in another investment today. Together with Runa Capital, it’s leading a $2 million Series A round in Berlin-based Mambu, the SaaS for alternative finance and “micro-finance” organisations mainly in Africa and South America. Existing investor Kizoo Technology… Read More
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Russia’s Gruzobzor Raises $1M For Its B2B Platform For The Transportation Industry
Gruzobzor, which roughly translates to “cargo overview” in Russian, has announced that it’s raised $1 million from Runa Capital and the startup’s founders. It offers a cloud-based service targeted at the transportation industry to enable carriers, shippers and freight forwarders to share electronic documents and communicate in real-time, therefore increasing efficiency… Read More
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5 Startups Show Their Connection To Parallels And Its Software Play In The Hosting World
A software company’s conference in Las Vegas for hosting executives is not exactly where I’d expect to see a bunch of startups showing off what they do. But when the software company’s chairman of the board is also an investor in the startups then the reason for their attendance becomes pretty clear. Read More
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A Founder’s Life Has A Lot Of iPads In It – And Some Gratuitous Sex [NSFW]
The life of a founder isn’t an easy one — at least, initially. There’s no time for love, fun, or even sleep. The product, the users, the servers and the investors use up every available second of the day and night. But entrepreneurs choose this difficult path in life, and they usually love it. Runa Capital, a $135M technology-focused venture capital firm, appreciates… Read More
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Cellrox Secures $4.7M Led by Runa Capital For Its BYOD Virtualization Solution
Investors can’t seem to get enough of the BYOD trend of late. Today sees another ‘bring your own device’ startup receive funding — Tel Aviv-based Cellrox, which claims to be a leader in BYOD ‘multi-persona’ solutions for mobile devices, has raised a $4.7 million series A round led by Runa Capital, with participation from existing investors Previz Venture… Read More
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VC Runa Capital Invests $2.5M Series A In ‘Pinterest For Video Clips’ Startup ClipClock
Russian video sharing startup, ClipClock — which is being billed as a ‘Pinterest for video clips’ — has snagged a $2.5 million investment from VC firm Runa Capital. The startup, which was founded in January and launched its website and mobile app at the DEMO Fall 2012 Conference last month, allows users to collect their favourite video clips and share them through… Read More
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Station X Raises Additional $5M Led By Runa Capital To Help Crack The Genetic Code
Station X, which develops software for scientists and clinicians who work with large-scale human genome data, has announced that it’s raised $5 million in a second funding round, led by Runa Capital. In what was effectively a follow-on, the startup’s previous investors — most notably, Genomic Health — also participated. This new round also sees Runa Capital partner… Read More
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Why The Source Of Venture Capital Is As Important As The Money Itself
This post is written by Serguei Beloussov, PhD, is a Senior Founding Partner at Runa Capital, a founder of a virtualization technology company Parallels. Follow him on twitter. Money can be different; it can be “smart” and “not so smart”. When seeding or growing a start-up, it’s critical to attract the “right” investors with “smart” money. Read More
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Russian Nginx raises $3 million from international investors
Russian company Nginx raised $3 million from German BV Capital, Russian Runa Capital and MSD Capital, Michael Dell‘s venture fund, as reported by RBK Daily. Founded by Russian engineer Igor Sysoev 10 years ago, Nginx develops and maintains an open source Unix-based web and mail proxy server for large scale, fast paced, content heavy web sites. TechCrunch, Facebook, Groupon and… Read More
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Metabar, the 'Russian Conduit', raises $1m for its browser bar builder
Metabar, a Russian competitor to browser bar builder Conduit, has raised $1m from local seed-stage VC firm Runa Capital. Metabar’s platform is designed to enable publishers to create a browser bar-type app without having to write code. This can include content from their site, such as a news ticker or headlines, instant notifications to new content or even games. Additionally, the… Read More
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Runa Capital ups it fund to $50m for early-stage Russian startups
Runa Capital, the Russian VC fund that launched in August last year, has announced that it’s increased its fund from 30 to $50 million. Runa Capital’s mission is to back early-stage Russian and CIS-region technology companies so that they can compete globally, a vision that has attracted other investors both in Russia and globally (including the U.S.), says the VC firm, hence… Read More
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Runa Capital Ups It Fund To $50M For Early-Stage Russian Startups
Runa Capital, the Russian VC fund that launched in August last year, has announced that it’s increased its fund from 30 to $50 million. Runa Capital’s mission is to back early-stage Russian and CIS-region technology companies so that they can compete globally, a vision that has attracted other investors both in Russia and globally (including the U.S.), says the VC firm, hence… Read More
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Hivext secures $500,000 from Runa Capital for its Cloud dev platform
Hivext, a cloud-based application development platform, has secured $500,000 of funding from Runa Capital, the Russian VC fund that launched in August. It follows Runa’s first investment announced last month: $2 million in OnAir3G, which is described as a “voice-enabled mobile social networking platform”. Read More
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Runa Capital invests $2 million in Russian mobile startup OnAir3G
Runa Capital, a new Russian VC fund that launched in August, has announced its first investment: $2 million in OnAir3G, which is described as a “voice-enabled mobile social networking platform”. Notably, the Moscow-based startup is founded by Andrey Vasilevsky who also co-founded SmartCom, a developer of navigation software for Symbian, Windows Mobile and J2ME, which was sold to… Read More
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