[5] From 2010 through 2022, Runa Capital raised around $500 million in 4 funds and invested in over 100 companies in more than 14 countries of Europe and North America, including Nginx, MariaDB, Zopa, Brainly, drchrono, Smava, and Mambu.

[6][7][8] Runa Capital was founded by technological entrepreneurs Serg Bell and Ilya Zubarev (founders of Acronis and Parallels), and their MIPT university friend Dmitry Chikhachev.

[10] The partners contributed their own money into the first fund and raised capital from friends and other international investors including Achim Weiss and Andreas Gauger, founders of German hosting provider 1&1, and Edward Nicholson, former CEO of Brunswick-UBS.

[12][13][14] In 2022, the firm promoted its principals, Konstantin Vinogradov and Michael Fanfant, to general partners focusing on Europe and the U.S., respectively.

From 2010 through 2022 it invested in over 100 companies, equally split between North America and Europe:[6][7] In 2012, Runa Capital established the $30 million Quantum Wave Fund (Qwave) focused on startups in the field of quantum technology, which effectively served as a "materials science" arm for Runa Capital.