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.
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Yuri Milner puts up Mail.ru shares for sale
Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner is currently seeking to sell a portion of his shares in Mail.ru
Twitter Receives $400 Million Series E Investment By DST Global II
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 [...]
Yuri Milner’s DST Global Launches New Fund
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. [...]
Digital Sky Technology Raises Possibilty of Future IPO
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 [...]
Sape.ru Sees Investment From Digital Sky
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. [...]
