Runa Capital Fund II, L.P.

Runa Capital is a global venture capital firm built by serial entrepreneurs that invests in early-stage software and deep tech startups around the world.Runa Capital Fund II is governed by its general partner, Runa Capital II (GP), whose investment committee comprises Andrey Bliznyuk, Dmitry Chikhachev, Dmitry Galperin, and Ilya Zubarev.

Together with Dmitry, Ilya Zubarev co-founded Runa in 2010. He is a serial entrepreneur, who also co-founded multiple successful tech companies over the past 20 years, including global cybersecurity company Acronis ($3.5B+ valuation in the recent round led by Blackrock), virtualization software provider Parallels (acquired by Corel), service automation platform Odin (acquired by Ingram Micro) and fast-growing cloud ERP provider Acumatica (acquired by EQT Partners).

Ilya earned his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering.

Dmitry co-founded Runa in 2010 and has led many early-stage investments in deep tech companies, including Nginx (acquired by F5 Networks for $670M; read the story), Capptain (acquired by Microsoft), and MariaDB, as well as many B2B SaaS companies, including Ecwid (read the story), Critizr, and Simplifield. He is based in Luxembourg and predominantly focuses on startups from France, Benelux, and the United Kingdom.

Dmitry is a hands-on investor with more than 23 years of international executive experience. Prior to Runa, he led global M&A and greenfield projects at Ritzio Entertainment Group, grew vending operator Uvenco (acquired by Montagu Group) as CEO/COO from scratch to $25M revenues and managed HR at Ericsson across 7 countries.

He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics and an MBA from the American Institute of Business and Economics. His strong technical and academic background contributes to his deep understanding of complex technology like cloud infrastructure, middleware, machine learning, quantum cryptography, as well as edutech. 

Dmitry enjoys running marathons in cities where Runa portfolio companies are located, such as Paris, Berlin and Boston.

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