The founders of Parallels, Acronis and Almaz have created a seed investment fund.
Sergey Belousov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Parallels and Acronis, and Alexander Galitsky, the founder of Almaz Capital Partners, created a fund to invest in high-tech startups at an early stage of development. The fund was named Runa Capital . The size of the fund is about $ 30 million.
Directions of investments - software and Internet services. Of particular interest - to projects in the areas of cloud computing, machine translation, virtual presence and software for mobile devices. The main task of Runa Capital is to bring talented Russian-speaking technology teams to world markets.
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“The uniqueness of our approach is that we actively help teams overcome difficulties between technology and successful business: create a high-quality software product, develop and implement a market entry strategy, find foreign partners,” says Dmitry Chikhachev, managing partner of Runa Capital. To help start-ups, we attract the best in the industry with practical experience, experts and mentors from friendly companies to the fund, we use professional connections of the partners of the fund. ”
The fund will support the business incubator, the purpose of which will be the cultivation of competitive technology companies from promising Russian startups. Incubator called Runapark.
Well-known high-tech entrepreneurs and investors included Andreas Gauger, founder of the world's largest hosting provider 1 & 1 and CTO of this company Achim Weiss, founder of Rolsen and Acronis Ilya Zubarev, founder of Russia's largest Softline software distributor Igor Borovikov, chairman of UFG Asset Management Charles Ryan, the founder of Doctor Web, Igor Danilov.
Directions of investments - software and Internet services. Of particular interest - to projects in the areas of cloud computing, machine translation, virtual presence and software for mobile devices. The main task of Runa Capital is to bring talented Russian-speaking technology teams to world markets.
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“The uniqueness of our approach is that we actively help teams overcome difficulties between technology and successful business: create a high-quality software product, develop and implement a market entry strategy, find foreign partners,” says Dmitry Chikhachev, managing partner of Runa Capital. To help start-ups, we attract the best in the industry with practical experience, experts and mentors from friendly companies to the fund, we use professional connections of the partners of the fund. ”
The fund will support the business incubator, the purpose of which will be the cultivation of competitive technology companies from promising Russian startups. Incubator called Runapark.
Well-known high-tech entrepreneurs and investors included Andreas Gauger, founder of the world's largest hosting provider 1 & 1 and CTO of this company Achim Weiss, founder of Rolsen and Acronis Ilya Zubarev, founder of Russia's largest Softline software distributor Igor Borovikov, chairman of UFG Asset Management Charles Ryan, the founder of Doctor Web, Igor Danilov.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97870/
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