💰 Great news for those who like Fintech!

This Thursday, the most promising Fintech startups from the Baltics, Nodrics and CEE will be taking part in the Fintech track of TechChill 2021, the leading tech event in this region.

Our Senior Associate Konstantin Gnyp will be one of the juries.

Must see!
https://techchill.co/

🔗 We are very excited to announce that 1confirmation, a crypto-focused venture capital firm backed by Runa closed a new $125M fund.

Nick Tomaino, the founder of 1confirmation fund is a former Principal at Runa. Our fund has been supporting 1confirmation as an investor from its very inception.

Good luck, Nick! ✊

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/105958/crypto-venture-capital-firm-1confirmation-announces-close-of-new-125-million-fund

💪 Second quantum investment in less than a month!

We are excited to announce our recent investment in Pasqal, French developer of Quantum Computers based on neutral atoms.

The €25 million Series A round was led by Quantonation fund and the Defense Innovation Fund backed by the French government.

https://tech.eu/brief/palaiseau-based-atomic-level-quantum-processor-builder-pasqal-raises-e25-million-in-series-a-round/

Our Principal Konstantin Vinogradov had a chat with ZDNet about the most promising open-source startups in Q2 2021 from Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index and our approach to investments in open source.

Must read! 👍

https://www.zdnet.com/article/open-source-growth-and-venture-capital-investment-data-databases-challenges-and-opportunities/

👾 We are excited to announce the recent Series A round of SuperAnnotate, a computer vision startup from our portfolio.

The $14.5M round was led by Base10 Partners with participation from exising investors Runa Capital, Point Nine Capital and Fathom Capital.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/07/12/superannotate-raises-145-million-to-help-automate-the-computer-vision-pipeline/?sh=316bbcea6920

🚀 We are happy to announce our 3rd quantum investment this year - Dutch startup Qu&Co, providing quantum software for chemistry, multiphysics and finance.

The round was led by Quantonation with Runa Capital and SPInvest as co-investors.

https://quandco.com/news/quco-funding

🇨🇳 Our analyst Denis Kalinin, who's responsible for Asia Business Development, made research for TechCrunch on cross-border VC investments from China.

If you want to raise money from Chinese funds, we recommend you to check this article first for some valuable insights.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/10/is-it-so-bad-to-take-money-from-chinese-venture-funds/

Our Fintech portfolio is getting stronger! 💪

Runa’s porfolio company Lendio, leading financial solutions marketplace in the US, acquired Laso's Loan Origination Software (LOS) and proprietary insights technology.

Laso's capabilities in artificial intelligence, data science and machine learning will allow Lendio to further expand its coverage to SMEs nationwide.

https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/89338/lendio-acquires-lasos-loan-origination-software

🎉 We are proud to announce that Runa led a $10M Series A round for OfficeRnd with Flashpoint VC and LAUNCHub Ventures participating in the round.

OfficeRnD provides software which helps flex space operators, landlords, property management companies and workplace teams manage their workspaces.

https://tcrn.ch/3jdOrof

Runa Capital statement on war in Ukraine

Global investors tend to stay away from politics, but we must break our silence and speak out.

All war is evil, and Runa firmly stands for peace. This war is devastating and unjust. We feel tremendous sorrow and pain for Ukraine and all the people affected by this tragedy. As for the Russian-born part of our team, we are ashamed, deplore the aggression, and believe this war is catastrophic for both the Ukrainian and Russian people and all those who are impacted across the globe.

At Runa, we have been taking the time to make sure our team is safe. All our partners and investment team members are safe and currently based outside the countries involved in the conflict. Our portfolio is concentrated in the United States and the European Union, so our exposure to the affected region is minimal. We all are actively helping the few portfolio companies affected by the crisis ensure the safety of their employees and maintain operations.

As an international venture firm, we have always carefully chosen our limited partners. None of them is affiliated with sanctioned entities, so there are no threats to the fund, our LPs or our portfolio companies. Runa Capital continues to operate as usual and invest in new companies.

We hope that peace will return soon to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

Our fintech-focused Associate Gleb Onishchenko offered his industry insights on the fintech-infrastructure space.

#fintech #VC #embeddedfinance

We are pleased to release the latest issue of the ROSS index — the top-20 fastest-growing open-source companies in Q1 2022.

🏆 Here is the TOP-10:
1️⃣ Builder
2️⃣ ToolJet
3️⃣ Netmaker
4️⃣ SuperTokens
5️⃣ Safing
6️⃣ Medusa
7️⃣ Amplication
8️⃣ Charm
9️⃣ Fig
🔟 GrowthBook

https://runacap.com/ross-index/

We’ve launched three open-source indexes – databases, headless CMSs, and static site generators, which will be updated daily and based on the most important metrics for open-source projects – contributors.

You can learn more about our thought process in the blog post.

And you can see all these indexes on our website.

We are pleased to present a new issue of the ROSS Index — the top-20 fastest-growing open-source startups in Q2 2022.

🏆 Here is the TOP-10:
1️⃣ HTTPie
2️⃣ Warp
3️⃣ Dagger
4️⃣ HPC-AI Tech
5️⃣ MosaicML
6️⃣ Multiprocess Labs
7️⃣ Builder
8️⃣ Firezone
9️⃣ Themesberg
🔟 Qdrant

The ROSS index returns with a special edition - here are the top-50 fastest-growing open-source startups in 2022.

https://runacap.com/ross-index/annual-2022/

🏅Here is the TOP-10:🏅

1️⃣ Builder.io
2️⃣ novu.co
3️⃣ refine.dev
4️⃣ safing.io
5️⃣ nhost.io
6️⃣ tooljet.com
7️⃣ netmaker.org
8️⃣ IceWhale (zimaboard.com)
9️⃣ penpot.app
🔟 mindsdb.com

Hi everyone! This week we dropped the Q1 2023 vintage of ROSS index. Hope you enjoy it

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7054011367644639232/?actorCompanyId=1075464

🏅Here is the TOP-10:🏅

1️⃣ https://pynecone.io
2️⃣ http://sismo.io
3️⃣ https://apitable.com
4️⃣ https://nebuly.com/
5️⃣ https://www.hpc-ai.tech
6️⃣ https://massa.net
7️⃣ https://www.nango.dev
8️⃣ https://infisical.com
9️⃣ https://www.getlago.com/
🔟 https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine

You can also be the first to get ROSS index by signing up to our ROSS newsletter here:

https://runacap.com/newsletters/ross

Are you looking for the hottest open-source startups 🔥?

Look no further than the ROSS Index 🚀

The latest vintage is out today and features the top 10 fastest-growing startups in Q2 2023 😛

https://runacap.com/ross-index/q2_2023/

👇 Here are the fastest-growing open-source #startups in Q2 2023 👇

1️⃣ LangChain
2️⃣ FIT2CLOUD
3️⃣ Nomic AI
4️⃣ Lightning AI
5️⃣ Roboflow
6️⃣ Windmill
7️⃣ bloop
8️⃣ Qdrant
9️⃣ Terramate
🔟 AFFiNE

🔝 You can find the top 20 on our website 🔝

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🤠 🤠 It's just dropped - the latest vintage of ROSS index! However, there's a twist 🥨...

This time we would like your opinions by completing this short survey about #opensourcesoftware. All modern digital infrastructure depends on open source to operate and we need your help to protect this fragile ecosystem.

👉 https://runacap.com/os-support-survey 👈

And as always here are the top 1️⃣0️⃣ trending early-stage #opensource startups in Q3 2023 🔥

You can find the full list here: https://runacap.com/ross-index/q3-23/

1️⃣ Embedchain
2️⃣ LangGenius (Dify)
3️⃣ Manticore Search
4️⃣ FlowiseAI
5️⃣ 1Panel (FIT2CLOUD)
6️⃣ Plane
7️⃣ Coqui
8️⃣ Oven
9️⃣ tldraw
🔟 Icewhale Technology Limited

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#rossindex #opensourcecai #venturecapital