Gleb Onischenko

Gleb Onischenko is a Ukrainian venture and finance professional based in London. He was educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he completed a Master's degree with honors (cum laude, 2020–2022); his thesis focused on "Development of a VC fund strategy in a challenging market environment," reflecting his early orientation toward the venture business itself.

He joined Runa Capital — a global early-stage VC firm founded in 2010 and headquartered in Luxembourg, with offices in London, Berlin, Sofia, and the San Francisco Bay Area — as an Associate on the investment team, where he specialized in fintech and B2B payments infrastructure. During his time there he was Runa's designated fintech-facing voice, publishing thesis pieces on the firm's Medium publication and representing the firm publicly (including as a speaker at a Berkeley SkyDeck Europe event in Milan). He relocated from Russia to London around 2022, a move he wrote about publicly on LinkedIn.

Onischenko has since moved from the investor side to an operating role. His current LinkedIn lists him at Fundraise Up — a donation-optimization / nonprofit fundraising technology company (London and New York) — where his posts reference finance, treasury, and fundraising-related work. As a result, he is best understood today as a former fintech VC associate now working in-house at a fintech-adjacent startup, rather than an actively deploying investor. Founders should note the runacap.com email may no longer be his primary/active address.

Beyond his day job, he is active in London's startup community, organizing "London VC & Tech Poker" networking events that bring together investors and founders.

• Core focus (at Runa): Fintech and B2B payments infrastructure — the "picks and shovels" layer of financial services rather than consumer-facing apps; also engaged with embedded finance.
• Stage & checks: Early stage — Pre-Seed/Seed to Series A, within Runa's Seed–Series B mandate and typical ~$1M–$10M initial-check band.
• No-code / developer & business tooling: In his June 2020 essay "No-code, no-code everywhere!" he argued the no-code movement was a durable wave, noting that "more than $1B" had flowed into the space over the prior five years and that startups like Airtable and Notion had reached unicorn status — signaling an interest in tools that expand who can build software.
• What Runa says yes to: Runa positions itself as a team of "founders and coders" who back technical, infrastructure-heavy companies; the firm's fintech track record (Zopa, Mambu, Smava) shows a preference for platforms and marketplaces with strong technical moats over thin consumer plays.