Breaking News: Maxwell Filip-Turner just joined our #VC squad in London! 🎉 He's a #data geek turned VC and has already survived the chaos of onboarding, and we're pretty sure they'll make the rest of us look good in no time. He'll be splitting his time between helping us discover highly-promising #startups, while completing his studies at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Welcome aboard - let's make some magic (or at least find the coffee machine together). 🚀 #NewTeamMember #VentureCapital #StudentCareers
Runa Capital
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Venture fund focused on early-stage startups disrupting deeptech, B2B SaaS fintech infrastructure in the US Europe
About us
Runa Capital is a global VC firm investing in early-stage tech companies and focusing on deep tech (AI/ML, open source and future of computing), enterprise software and fintech infrastructure. The firm invested in NGINX, Mambu, Brainly, Pasqal, Smava and Zopa. Runa Capital brings tech and hiring expertise, along with a transatlantic network, to help portfolio companies scale. The fund has points of presence in Luxembourg, Palo Alto, London, Paris, and Berlin.
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http://www.runacap.com
External link for Runa Capital
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Luxembourg
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2010
- Specialties
- Venture Capital, Startups, Investments, Entrepreneurship, Fintech, Edtech, Digital Health, B2B, SaaS, Machine Learning, Deep Tech, Virtual Reality, Middleware, Deep Tech, VR, VC, Software, Cloud Computing, Mobile Apps, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Round A, Round B, Blockchain, and IT
Locations
Employees at Runa Capital
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Andre Bliznyuk
General Partner at Runa Capital
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Jinal Jhaveri
Founder (Mismo / SchoolMint / Enable Us) /// Tech. Investor
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Stu Libby
Venture Partner at Runa Capital, Founder of Zipdrug (Acquired by Elevance Health FKA Anthem), Co-Founder of Circulate & Solve Media (Acquired by Live…
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Murat Akuyev
Updates
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Our Y Combinator backed portfolio company PandasAI (YC W24) is launching on Product Hunt today Click the link to support #AI powered data extraction 👇 #data #VC #startups #pandas
Animal lovers out there 🫏🫎🐨🐸🐞🐆🦖 🫵 In fewer than 10 seconds, you can help us save the Pandas 🐼 My pal Gabriele Venturi is launching PandasAI (YC W24) on Product Hunt Just click the link, sign in via Google and upvote. Let’s make Pandas the product of day ✅ https://lnkd.in/d2KdADbW #YC #YCombinator #Pandas #AI
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🌝 We're over the moon to share to the latest from our portfolio company and 🇫🇷 "Quantum Darling" (not our words but Daphné Leprince-Ringuet's of Sifted). Today Welinq announced their new #scientific advisory featuring: 🥇 2022 #nobelprize winner alain aspect 🔮 University of Oxford #Quantum cryptography expert Artur Ekert 🚀 Quantum networking virtuoso #KaeNemoto 🧑🔬 Quantum optics maestro #PeterZoller Together, their knowledge will propel Welinq's progress and strengthen its dedication to pioneering advancements in #quantumtech, especially cutting-edge quantum interconnects for quantum computer networking. #quantumcomputing #photons #futureofcompute
👩🔬 Meet Welinq's prestigious Scientific Advisory Board! 🔗 Link to the Press Release: https://lnkd.in/ecwtRvgj 💥 We are excited to announce the creation of Welinq's Scientific Advisory Board. We are honored to be joined by some of the most influential figures in quantum information science. Their expertise drives us forward, reinforcing Welinq’s commitment to advancing breakthroughs in quantum technologies and delivering innovative quantum interconnects for quantum computer networking. We are proud to present our esteemed board members: - Professor Alain Aspect: Physics Nobel Laureate in 2022, renowned for his groundbreaking work on non-locality with entangled photons and fundamental quantum phenomena. - Professor Artur Ekert: A pioneer in quantum cryptography and communications, recognized for his influential E91 protocol. - Professor Kae Nemoto: An expert in quantum algorithms, distributed quantum computing, and quantum networking, advancing scalable quantum information systems. - Professor Peter Zoller: A leading figure in quantum optics, quantum computing, and quantum error correction, and co-author of the seminal DLCZ protocol for quantum networking. ⚛ With this exceptional board, Welinq is poised to lead the way in scalable quantum computing solutions, harnessing advanced quantum interconnects to address the most pressing challenges in the field. #nobelprize #quantumcomputing #photons #futureofcompute alain aspect, Artur Ekert, Kae Nemoto, Peter Zoller, Tom Darras, Eleni Diamanti, Julien Laurat, Jean Lautier-Gaud, Christophe Jurczak, Dmitry Galperin, Francesco Ricciuti, Eléonore de Rose, Christopher Spillane, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, CNRS Innovation, Quantonation, Runa Capital
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💾 Save the date 📅 Open Source Community Africa has invited our #oss VC Maxime Corbani to share the secrets behind commercial #opensource as a Y Combinator-backed founder. The talk starts on Friday, Sept. 27, and you can learn how to crack the code of open-source investment by signing up below👇 🚀 https://lnkd.in/dA3a_weD #founderstories #VC #venturecapital
Join us for another community webinar on Friday, 27th September 2024, by 04:45 PM (GMT 1) with Maxime Corbani where we get to talk all about commercial open source and cracking the code of open-source investment. Maxime Corbani is a Senior Associate at Runa Capital and a YC-backed startup founder. Having worked with Runa Capital to invest $500M in 100 startups, including OSS devtools like MariaDB, n8n․io, Nginx, OpenReplay, etc., Maxime will share his experiences and answer any questions from community members. In this live webinar, you get to hear us talk about: - Why open source matters. - Open source licensing. - What does commercial open source (COSS) mean, and how does it work? - How do we monetize open source and different business models? - How Runa Capital approaches COSS investing. - How members of the OSCA community can build commercial-ready projects. - Maxime’s experiences as a startup founder and venture capitalist (VC). - And lots more! Kindly RSVP here (https://bit.ly/osca-coss) to join the webinar and ask any questions you have in advance.
OSCA Community Webinar: Commercial Open Source (COSS) Investments
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After the hype, comes reality. Riddhi Kanetkar of Business Insider interviewed our #deeptech VC Francesco Ricciuti about the wave of #AI down rounds on the horizon for #startups 🚀 😓 More than 90% of AI startups in the US raised up rounds in 2022 compared with just 6.5% raised down rounds, according to PitchBook data reported by Business Insider. This year, the number of startups raising up rounds has sunk to 81.1% — and down rounds have nearly doubled to 11.4% 🤯 Check out the story in the comments below 👇 #VC #AIStartups #venturecapital
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Our portfolio company #founders Tom Darras of Welinq 🇫🇷 and Michael Kissner of Akhetonics 🇩🇪 joined Elon Musk, Daniel Ek (Spotify) and others to share their reaction on the future of Europe's #competitiveness 🇪🇺🏃♀️ European Commission dropped a 328 page report this week outlining Europe's competitive shortcomings and Cate Lawrence of Tech.eu produced a deeply researched story that explains it all. Read on below 👇 cc Michael Jackson, Algorithmiq, planqc #quantumcomputing #vc #venturecapital #startups
This week, the European Union released a report about the future of European competitiveness authored by Mario Draghi, former Italian prime minister and president of the European Central Bank. The nearly 400-page report, a year in the making, presents over 170 recommendations. It is a stark warning, highlighting Europe's competitive shortcomings against China and the United States in many areas. Simply put, the European tech scene is characterised as overregulated, underinvested, and suffering from brain drain as talent leaves for the US. This is nothing new for us at Tech.eu, but when you dig into the report, it just gets worse. And do we need another report that will likely lead to more talking instead of action? While a cautionary tale about regulating innovation to death, there are also plenty of green shoots. For example, the report suggests that quantum computing could contribute up to €850 billion to the EU economy in the next 15-30 years. I'm here in Denmark this week for the fantastic TechBBQ. Despite its size, the country is a major player in the quantum technology space. Besides reading it so you don't have to (joking not joking), I reached out to a bunch of quantum founders and VCs in the know like VC Michael Jackson for their take on what's the state of play.
Draghi report sounds alarm on Europe's competitive decline
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🙏 Thank you Paris 🇫🇷 #OSS beers No. 4 was a hit 🎯 More than 50 people from the French #opensource community joined us for conversations over beers and pizza. Thanks to our partners Lago (Anh-Tho Chuong) and Hexa (Ugo VOLLMER) for sharing this opportunity with us. 💾 OSS beer 5 is now loading... Got an idea for where the next OSS beer should take place? Hit us up in the comments below 👇 #FrenchTech #COSS #events
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✈️ Next stop Harvard Business School 🇺🇸 🧑🎓 💸 Runa Capital General Partner Konstantin Vinogradov will join OpenForum Europe symposium in Boston, MA, to present his paper titled "Endowment Model: A New Approach to Sustainable Funding of #OpenSource" #OSS is challenged by a lack of predictable, stable, long-term #funding sources. Konstantin's paper proposes a new approach to resolve this issue by adopting the private endowment fund model used by top research universities like Stanford University, University of Oxford or Carnegie Mellon University The symposium starts Nov. 13 and he'll be joined by Knut Blind, Sayeed Choudhury, Frank Nagle Sachiko Muto, Katharina Meyer and many more! You can register with the details below 👇 🚀 #endowment #academicresearch #VC #venturecapital
📅 We're pleased to announce that the 2024 OFA Symposium Programme is now published! Thanks to an overwhelming response to our call for proposals, the 2024 OFA Symposium will feature exceptional content and deep insights from international academics and experts. Our multidisciplinary agenda covers critical topics, including the economics of open source innovation, open source funding, dynamics of open source ecosystems, global AI governance, and public sector participation in open source. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dCnR62cK Save the date on your calendars for November 13-14 in Boston, MA, and don't forget to secure your spot today! Thanks to our co-organizers Carnegie Mellon, FGV Direito Rio, IIM Bangalore, and TU Berlin for making this event possible. For more information or to ask any questions you might have, please reach out to [email protected]. Knut Blind Sayeed Choudhury Frank Nagle Nicolo Zingales Sachiko Muto Katharina Meyer Dirk Riehle Walter Britto Gaspar Bernard Sabiti Shikoh Gitau Tarunima Prabhakar #OpenSource #DigitalEconomy #AcademicResearch
Landing page 2024
https://symposium.openforumeurope.org
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🇫🇷 That's right! The Runa Capital #opensource team is back in Paris for another edition of Open Source Beers 🍻 (and 🍕🍕🍕) Sign up with the link below or ping Maxime Corbani for an invite 🎟 if you're an OSS founder, developer or contributor 👩💻 👨💻 cc Anh-Tho Chuong Lago Hexa Ugo VOLLMER #Frenchtech #OSS #startups #greatbeers
📆 Open (source) bar at Hexa next Wednesday… If you’re an OSS founder, contributor, or admirer, come and have a couple of beers with us to celebrate the launch of Ugo VOLLMER's Open Source vertical, alongside our friends at Lago and Runa Capital, who have ran 3 very successful previous editions of OSS beers 🍻 On the agenda: lots of catching up, meeting new people in the space, pizza, and music. It makes sense for an industry founded on community 💡 Space is limited, so make sure to secure your spot ASAP. Request your spot through the link in the comments 👇
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‼️When a #startup brands themselves as an #AI business 😬 ✅ When a startup avoids AI in its branding 😎 Francesco Ricciuti spoke with Anne Sraders at Sifted about #VC investments in AI and types of metrics the Runa Capital team are looking at right now 👇 https://lnkd.in/dTzHkHyQ #SaaS #startups
Where VCs are placing their next AI bets
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