Yuri Milner
Location: Europe
Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, US based venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques and prescient awareness of the commercial potential of the Internet revolutionized venture-capital investment strategies in the 2010s.
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Yuri Milner, Russian-born entrepreneur, US based venture capitalist, and philanthropist whose innovative investment techniques and prescient awareness of the commercial potential of the Internet revolutionized venture-capital investment strategies in the 2010s.
He is a co-founder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group, and a founder of investment firm DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify, Byju’s, Flipkart, Wish, JD, Alibaba, Nu Bank, and many other enterprises.
Yuri is the founder of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which supports leading researchers in fundamental science and mathematics, helps spread scientific ideas to the next generation, and invests in cutting-edge space programs.
In 2012, Yuri and his wife Julia partnered with Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, and Anne Wojcicki to launch the Breakthrough Prizes – the world’s largest scientific awards, honoring important, primarily recent, achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics.
In July 2015, together with Stephen Hawking, Yuri announced the launch of the Breakthrough Initiatives, a suite of space science programs investigating the fundamental questions of life in the Universe. The $100 million Breakthrough Listen initiative has reinvigorated the search for technological civilizations in the Universe, while Breakthrough Starshot, launched with Professor Hawking in 2016, is a $100 million research and engineering program seeking to develop a new technology for uncrewed interstellar travel.
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