Happy to announce that SkySQL, the cloud database solution of our portfolio company MariaDB was crowned with the Technology of the Year Award by InfoWorld! 🎉

https://www.infoworld.com/article/3604653/infoworlds-2021-technology-of-the-year-award-winners.html#slide11

Glad to see Runa among the most active foreign funds in Poland in 2020, according to a new report by PFR Ventures and Inovo Venture Partners. Our portfolio company Brainly raised the second biggest investment round (€67m) in Poland last year.🥈

Proud to announce that SuperAnnotate, a no-code computer vision platform from Runa’s portfolio, is partnering with OpenCV association. It will allow to adopt SuperAnnotate’s platform for drone building, agricultural vision sensors and even COVID-related detection services.

Our Fintech portfolio company Smava has acquired 100% of its competitor Finanzcheck and become the largest consumer loan platform in Germany with over €4 bn in loan volume. 💰

https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/fusionen-und-uebernahmen-kreditplattform-smava-uebernimmt-finanzcheck-und-koennte-einhorn-status-erreicht-haben/26908964.html?ticket=ST-6468323-u3TuXpTbn3uYdyGVgx6B-ap5

📊 What's the best metric for an open-source startup? There is no one correct answer, only a holistic view works. Previously we've already covered Github stars in #ROSSIndex, so it's time to share our approach to contributors' analysis and apply it to some domain.

What if we consider contributors as users and their code commits as purchases? Then one can calculate classic metrics for OS repositories like new/active users, growth, retention/churn, ARPU, LTV, etc. Our principal Konstantin Vinogradov did it for all open-source databases (350+) and got interesting results!

https://medium.com/runacapital/open-source-analysis-and-os-databases-1eb1fe840719

E.g. top-20 open-source databases by active contributors in 2020

We are excited to announce Runa’s new Fintech investment - Monite, German startup providing finance management platform for SMEs.

Runa’s Fintech family is growing! 🚀

https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/86461/monite-raises-11m-to-automate-admin-and-accounting-for-smes

Another good news about our Fintech portfolio!

🏆 Oxygen, digital banking platform for freelancers backed by Runa, was named Best Overall Fintech App in the 2021 FinTech Breakthrough Awards.

Past notable winners of this award include Plaid, GooglePay, Quicken, Personal Capital, and Experian.

https://www.streetinsider.com/Business+Wire/Oxygen+Named+%E2%80%98Best+Overall+Fintech+App%E2%80%99+in+2021+FinTech+Breakthrough+Awards/18132067.html

🎉 We are proud to announce that Runa led a $10M Series A-1 round together with Andreessen Horowitz for AnyRoad.

Anyroad is the leading Experience Relationship Management (ERM) platform enabling global brands to properly measure, scale, and implement their experiential marketing campaigns.

https://venturebeat.com/2021/03/24/how-anyroad-lets-brands-measure-customer-experiences-online-and-offline/

We are excited to announce our investment in TON Labs together with RTP Global! 🚀

TON Labs is the core-developer of the Free TON blockchain which is recognized as the fastest decentralized protocol existing nowadays.

The project was originally launched in May 2020 as an infrastructure solutions provider for the Telegram Open Network.

When a New York federal court put an injunction on the Telegram team, preventing further development of the network, Free TON emerged as an independent project that finalized the initial Telegram code and built the TON Operating System.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ton-labs-raises-6m-in-support-of-free-ton-blockchain

Quantum Technologies - is it a Hype or the New Reality for Investors?

This Wednesday (April 14th) at 8:35 am EST, our Senior Associate Maria Lepskaya will give you a detailed overview on this topic at Quantum.Tech Conference.
Welcome to join!

https://www.quantumtechdigital.co.uk/speakers/maria-lepskaya

We are happy to release the update for Runa Open Source Startup (ROSS) Index.

🏆 Here is the TOP-10 fastest-growing open-source startups by Github ⭐ in Q1:
1. DoltHub
2. LBRY
3. Penpot
4. Athens Research
5. Infracost
6. Appwrite
7. Appsmith
8. Papercups
9. Parity Technologies
10. Dendron

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

💰We are proud to announce that our portfolio company n8n has raised $12M in a Series A round led by Felicis Ventures together with Sequoia Capital, Firstminute Capital and Harpoon Ventures.

The company provides low-code tools to help automate the process of apps working together.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/26/n8n-raises-12m-for-its-fair-code-approach-to-low-code-workflow-automation/

🦄 We are excited to announce that cybersecurity unicorn Acronis, our friendly company founded by Runa’s senior partners, raises $250M.

The investment round was led by CVC Capital Partners who valued Acronis at over $2.5B. The company plans to use this money for further organic growth and acquisitions.

Congrats, Acronis!

https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/04/acronis-raises-250m-at-a-2-5b-valuation-to-double-down-on-cyber-protection-services/

🔬 We are delighted to announce that Runa led a $4.4M Series A round for a Switzerland-based quantum startup Qnami together with SIT Capital and Qnami’s previous investors Quantonation, Verve Ventures, ZKB Start-up Finance, and the High Tech Gründerfond.

Qnami launced its first commercial magnetometer ProteusQ™ in 2019 to provide an innovative platform for analyzing magnitec materials at the nanoscale.

https://www.venturelab.ch/Qnami-raises-CHF-4-million-to-advance-its-patented-quantum-microscope-technology

💰 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