DoubleRecall, the company that was featured among 60 companies at the Y Combinator summer session demo day last August, has bagged a USD 1.6 mln round of seed funding. At the time of Y Combinator, DoubleRecall was offered USD 170,000 by investors including Yuri Milner. For this round, the funding comes from Mentor Equity, Digital [...]

Russian Entrepreneur Yuri Milner’s DST will acquire a minority stake of 4 percent in Zalando, an online footwear retailer operating across Europe. Zalando is the footwear division of business incubator Rocket Internet and was launched by the Samwer brothers of Germany, who will also be taking part in this round of funding. Zalando currently generates [...]

Russian billionaire Yuri Milner has co-invested USD 1.4 million in US based technology startup company Flotype. Milner along with Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce, Ignition Partners and Y Combinator provided the seed capital to the startup that offers a suite of technologies for real-time communication between any platform and any device.

Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner is currently seeking to sell a portion of his shares in Mail.ru

DST Global, the firm owned by Russian business mogul Yuri Milner, lead a Series E round in Twitter, valued at USD 400 million. DST Global recently raised USD 1 billion for DST Global 2. This investment will put the value of Twitter at USD 8 billion dollars. This stake implies a 5% holding in the [...]

DST Global, the Russian technology-focused private equity firm headed up by Yuri Milner, has officially launched a new investment fund. The new fund is slightly different from its predecessor in that it will have some limited partners who are international investors. The fund’s first announced investment took place via a January 2011 deal with Groupon. [...]

Yuri Milner, founding partner and CEO of Digital Sky Technologies (DST), has recently put forth the possibility of his company offering an IPO within the next three years. Specific dates have not been mentioned since market conditions will play a big role in the decision when the time comes. The company was recently valued at roughly [...]

A recent Quintura blog has turned up a story from Russian business daily Vedomosti, which reports an investment by Digital Sky Technologies in Sape.ru. The investment, of which the value and details have not been made public, was completed in early 2008 and gives Digital Sky a 25.1% stake in the Russian link exchange service. [...]