RubyLight

About RubyLight

high performance and growth

As entrepreneurs we were fortunate to work with the best investors in the world who provided the funds necessary to fuel our growth However, they could not solve our technological problems Those we always had to tackle ourselves This required time which we did not have since our number of users grew exponentially Technical issues were a constant threat

Therefore, as investors we develop proprietary, high performance and platform independent set of tools, so that our startups can solve any technical bottlenecks

Every day our highly talented software engineers and system administrators work to help accelerate the growth of many young companies

Nov 2015 - investment
Dec 2015 - team
Mar 2016 - technology Our most recent publicly announced investment is Jodel com, a location based social network for students and young adults This startup comes from Berlin, Germany Its founders are very passionate about connecting you to people around in a new and special way We made our decision to invest in late November 2015 Just after nine months of working together in September 2016 the number of active daily users shot up already by 4 times We can't wait to report further on the progress of this highly popular product
Oct 2011 - investment
Jan 2012 - team
Mar 2012 - technology Ask fm is a truly social questions and answers service We especially like this case since the founders also come from Riga, Latvia We made our first investment in October 2011 Although it was pretty clear that this startup created an original and appealing product, its future was burdened by many technical problems Immediately we focused our technical team to tackle the most critical problems Only a few months later we fixed almost all major issues, moved to a dedicated server hosting centre and introduced a longterm scalable software platform As a result, the number of active daily users grew 12 times in just 12 months and the service expanded into more than 150 countries worldwide
Dec 2010 - investment
Feb 2011 - team
Oct 2011 - technology In 2010 we invested in a small but growing startup out of Russia Drugvokrug ru aka Fr im is a social discovery and entertainment mobile messenger At that time the service had already attracted а few hundred thousand daily unique active users However, the technical team was too small to conquer many rising technical issues The founders urgently needed our help Their growing service was on the edge of breakdown Thankfully, we came to rescue just at the right time The momentum continued to accelerate and the number of users grew more than 10 times in under 2 years
Dec 2006 - investment
Mar 2007 - team
Aug 2007 - technology Scaling Odnoklassniki ru, the second largest social network in Russia, was our most impactful experience When we invested in Odnoklassniki (as Forticom then), it was a small, but already growing startup During the due diligence we quickly realized that we would have to change the entire hardware and software platform for this service to survive In the short period of only three months we did exactly that The user growth exploded as we switched to our new platform and reached millions of users daily

that want to grow even faster

In our company we hate bureaucracy We do not have investment committees We do not require long business plans We make decisions and invest very fast However, we stay very focused and true to our investment policy

Only startups with proven user growth get funded Location of your venture does not matter We invest internationally The usage numbers do not have to be in the millions right away They could be as low as a few hundred All we need to see is that users clearly like your product, return on regular basis and invite their friends

As a principle we invest only into businesses that we can understand, thus we can add value We do not pretend to be specialists in everything Most of our experience comes from building consumer oriented internet and mobile companies We also favor only certain areas like communication, content sharing, social media and crowd sourcing Creative new ideas in these areas are set to produce the explosive user growth

Here is a select list of our publicly announced investments which we passionately support in their journeys to expand globally We have more startups that are currently working in stealth mode We will be talking about them very soon Stay tuned! Are you the founder of a promising and growing startup that needs help? Are you an experienced software developer, system administrator, designer or product manager who wants to work with startups? Are you the manager of an IT outsourcing company that wants to offer its services to us? Or maybe, you are an investor that needs a technical partner? To get a lightning speed reply from us: