UK company record
Runa (formerly WeGift)
Digital payouts / disbursements infrastructure (gift cards, prepaid cards, bank payouts)
VerifiedCore UK
Snapshot
- UK location
- London · London
- Sector
- Fintech & payments
- Latest recorded round
- Growth (post-Series B)
- Latest recorded amount
- £4.25M
- Date
- 2025-07
Legal-identity layer
Verified identity.
- Selected legal name
- RUNA LTD
- Company number
- 14611496
- Companies House status
- active
- Incorporated
- 2023-01-23
Investors
- Ascension (Ascension Ventures)Lead
- Unnamed additional participants (aggregator lists 5 total investors in this round)Participant
- Stride.VC (Fred Destin)Lead
- SAP.iO, Unilever VenturesParticipant
- angel investors James Hind (Carwow founder), Eamon Jubbawy (Onfido co-founder)Participant
- AlbionVCLead
- Stride.VC, SAP.iO Fund, Unilever Ventures (Nov 2020 close, all existing)Participant
- CommerzVentures joined new in the Mar 2021 follow-on trancheParticipant
- Element Ventures (now rebranded 13books Capital)Lead
- Clocktower Ventures, Volution Capital (new)Participant
- CommerzVentures, AlbionVC, SAP.iO (existing investors, increased stakes)Participant
- Puma Growth Partners (aggregating multiple Puma VCT vehicles, incl. Puma Alpha VCT)Lead
- AlbionVC (referred to as 'Albion Ventures' in this round's press), CommerzVentures, 13books Capital (existing investors)Participant
Current directors and active controllers
- Mr Ruslan SalyhaActive controller
- Mrs Nataliia SalyhaActive controller
- SALYHA, NataliiaCurrent director
- SALYHA, RuslanCurrent director
- SALYHA, RuslanCurrent director
Funding rows
- Pre-seed$3M · 2017-04-22
- Series A£4M (~$5.07M) · 2019-06-27
- Series A extension (Series A+, staged close)$12M (~£8.7M) total -- initial ~£6.7M/$8M close (25 Nov 2020) + £2.86M CommerzVentures follow-on (2-5 Mar 2021) · 2020-11-25
- Series B£26M (~$30.9M) · 2022-11-15
- Growth (post-Series B)£4.25M · 2025-07
Sources
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/wegift-pre-seed--5f761ebb
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/27/wegift/
- https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2019/wegift-raises-4m-in-funding-to-boost-expansion-to-us/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/wegift-closes-4-million-series-a-funding-20190627
- https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/25/wegift-the-incentive-marketing-platform-collects-8m-in-new-funding/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wegift-closes-12-million-series-a-round-to-accelerate-growth-of-digital-payouts-platform-301238268.html
- https://commerzventures.com/news/wegift-closes-12-million-series-a-round-to-accelerate-growth-of-digital-payouts-platform
- https://www.finsmes.com/2021/03/wegift-raises-12m-in-series-a-funding.html
- https://www.uktechnews.info/2021/03/02/the-voucher-market-t-a-wegift-adds-2-86-million-to-series-a-follow-on-investment-led-by-albionvc/
- https://runa.io/blog/wegift-announce-series-b
- https://13bookscapital.com/wegift-the-leader-in-digital-payouts-announced-26m-series-b/
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/wegift-series-b--14e053b6
- https://tech.eu/2022/11/14/wegift-wraps-up-ps26-million-series-b-for-cross-border-digital-currency-transfers/
- https://www.uktech.news/fintech/digital-payments-wegift-26m-20221115
- https://www.pumagrowthpartners.co.uk/puma-growth-partners-invests-in-runa/
- https://pumacapitalgroup.co.uk/news/puma-vcts-have-invested-in-runa-a-leading-global-fintech-infrastructure-payments-provider
- https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PUMA-ALPHA-VCT-PLC-107928950/news/Runa-Network-Limited-announced-that-it-has-received-0-25-million-in-funding-from-Puma-Alpha-VCT-pl-50326675/
- https://www.pymnts.com/news/investment-tracker/2019/wegift-raises-4m-in-funding-to-boost-expansion-to-us/
- https://www.uktech.news/news/wegift-closes-4-million-series-a-funding-20190627
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wegift-closes-12-million-series-a-round-to-accelerate-growth-of-digital-payouts-platform-301238268.html
- https://commerzventures.com/news/wegift-closes-12-million-series-a-round-to-accelerate-growth-of-digital-payouts-platform
- https://www.finsmes.com/2021/03/wegift-raises-12m-in-series-a-funding.html
- https://www.uktechnews.info/2021/03/02/the-voucher-market-t-a-wegift-adds-2-86-million-to-series-a-follow-on-investment-led-by-albionvc/
- https://13bookscapital.com/wegift-the-leader-in-digital-payouts-announced-26m-series-b/
- https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/wegift-series-b--14e053b6
- https://tech.eu/2022/11/14/wegift-wraps-up-ps26-million-series-b-for-cross-border-digital-currency-transfers/
- https://www.uktech.news/fintech/digital-payments-wegift-26m-20221115
- https://pumacapitalgroup.co.uk/news/puma-vcts-have-invested-in-runa-a-leading-global-fintech-infrastructure-payments-provider
- https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/PUMA-ALPHA-VCT-PLC-107928950/news/Runa-Network-Limited-announced-that-it-has-received-0-25-million-in-funding-from-Puma-Alpha-VCT-pl-50326675/