Yuri Milner

Extracted Attributes

• Father

  Bentsion Zakharovitch Milner

• Mother

  Betty Iosifovna Milner

• Education

  Moscow State University (B.A./B.S. in Theoretical Physics, 1985), University of Pennsylvania (MBA, dropped out)

• Net Worth

  $6 billion

• Citizenship

  Soviet (1961-1991), Russian (1991-2022), Israeli (1999-present)

• Occupations

  Entrepreneur, Investor, Physicist, Scientist, Venture Capitalist, Philanthropist

• Date of Birth

  1961-11-11

• Place of Birth

  Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

• Family Background

  Jewish

Timeline

• Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. (Source: summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata)

  1961-11-11

• Graduated from Moscow State University with a B.A./B.S. degree in theoretical physics. (Source: web_search_results)

  1985

• Worked as a Russian banking specialist at the World Bank. (Source: web_search_results)

  1990s (early)

• Named CEO of Alliance-Menatep brokerage firm. (Source: web_search_results)

  1995

• Bought and transformed a macaroni manufacturer into a successful concern. (Source: web_search_results)

  1998

• Co-founded NetBridge, a venture capital firm. (Source: web_search_results)

  1999

• Married Julia Bochkova. (Source: web_search_results)

  2004

• Personal investments included stakes in 23andMe, Habito, and Planet Labs. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2012

• Co-announced the launch of the Breakthrough Initiatives with Stephen Hawking. (Source: web_search_results)

  2015-07

• Launched Breakthrough Starshot with Stephen Hawking. (Source: web_search_results)

  2016

• Held a minority stake in the real estate investment startup Cadre. (Source: summary, Wikipedia)

  2017

• Renounced Russian citizenship. (Source: web_search_results)

  2022

Yuri Milner

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Hebrew: יורי מילנר, Russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, investor, physicist and scientist. He is a co-founder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group (later VK), 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. In 2012, Milner's personal investments included a stake in 23andMe, Habito, and Planet Labs. In 2017, he also had a minority stake in a real estate investments startup, Cadre.

Web Search Results

• Yuri Milner | Biography & Facts | Britannica Money

  Yuri Milner (born November 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) is a Russian entrepreneur, 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. [...] Milner grew up in a Jewish family in Moscow. His father, a university professor, wrote or edited some 50 books on American business management practices. His mother was a physician. As a teenager, Milner took night courses in computer programming. After earning a degree in theoretical physics from Moscow State University (B.A./B.S., 1985), he pursued a Ph.D. in particle physics. While a graduate student, he found success selling personal computers on the gray (quasi-legal) market and, with his [...] Upon his return to Moscow in the mid-1990s, Milner sought a place in post-Soviet Russia’s emerging capitalist economy, working first for influential oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Alliance-Menatep brokerage firm. In 1998 Milner and other investors bought a macaroni manufacturer and transformed it into a very successful concern. The next year, Milner cofounded a venture capital firm, NetBridge, and began investing in Russian Internet companies. When the Internet bubble burst in 2000–01,

• Yuri Milner - Wikipedia

  Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner( (Hebrew: יורי מילנר, Russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961)( is a Soviet-born( Israeli entrepreneur,( investor, physicist and scientist.( He is a co-founder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group (later VK "VK (company)")),( and a founder of investment firm DST Global.( Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify, Byju's, Flipkart, Wish "Wish (company)"), JD, Alibaba, Nu [...] Born into a Jewish family ( on 11 November 1961, in Moscow,( Yuri Milner was the second child of Soviet intellectuals.( His father, Bentsion Zakharovitch Milner, was Chief Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was active in management and organization.( Betty Iosifovna Milner, Yuri's mother, worked at Moscow's state-run virological laboratory for disease control. His older sister, eight years his senior, is an architect. In 1985, he graduated from [...] | Yuri Milner | | --- | | יורי מילנר | | Image 4 Milner in 2017 | | Born | (1961-11-11) 11 November 1961 (age 63) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | | Citizenship | Soviet (1961–1991) Russian (1991–2022)( Israeli (1999–present)( | | Education | Moscow State University (BS) University of Pennsylvania (dropped out) | | Occupation(s) | Businessman: venture capitalist, founder of Digital Sky Technologies and DST Global | | Spouse | Julia Bochkova ​ (m.2004)​ | | Children | 3 daughters |

• Yuri Milner | Technology Investor & Science Philanthropist

  # Yuri Milner Yuri Milner is an Israeli technology investor and science philanthropist. Both scientists and tech entrepreneurs ask big questions about reality – the physical, biological and social worlds – and imagine solutions. Solutions that deepen our knowledge and enrich our lives. But both kinds of discovery are hard, and involve risk-taking, meaning they need present investment to secure future rewards. Yuri Milner’s investments focus on the following areas: Internet Technology [...] Yuri is the founder of DST Global, one of the world’s leading technology investors, with a portfolio that has included some of the most prominent internet companies. Science Philanthropy 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 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

• Yuri Milner Net Worth

  ## What is Yuri Milner's Net Worth? Yuri Milner is a Soviet-born Israeli billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, scientist, and philanthropist who has a net worth of $6 billion. Yuri Milner co-founded the investment firm DST Global. Through the firm, he has invested in such major Internet companies as Facebook, Airbnb, Alibaba, and Spotify. Among his many other ventures, Milner co-founded the Russian Internet company NetBridge and the philanthropic science-based Breakthrough Prizes. [...] Yuri Milner was born on November 11, 1961 into a Jewish family in Moscow, Russia, in what was then the Soviet Union. He is the second child and only son of Soviet intellectuals Betty and Bentsion. For his higher education, Milner attended Moscow State University, from which he earned his BS degree in theoretical physics in 1985. Although he subsequently became a doctoral candidate in particle physics, he ultimately decided to leave the field behind and pursue a career in business. Milner went [...] Milner began his business career selling gray-market DOS computers in the Soviet Union; he stopped doing this following the collapse of the USSR. After earning his MBA in the early 1990s, Milner began working as a Russian banking specialist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. In 1995, he was named CEO of the stock brokerage company Alliance-Menatep, which was owned by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Late the next year, Milner became vice president and head of investment management at

• Yuri Milner - Forbes

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• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  MSU Faculty of Physics

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  entrepreneur

• Citizenship

  Russia

• Date Of Birth

  11/11/1961

• Place Of Birth

  Moscow

Yuri Borisovich (Bentsionovich) Milner (Russian: Юрий Борисович (Бенционович) Мильнер; born 11 November 1961) is a Soviet-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. He is a cofounder and former chairperson of internet company Mail.Ru Group (now VK) and a founder of investment firm DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Byju’s, Facebook, Wish, and many others. In 2012 Milner's personal investments included a stake in 23andMe, Habito, Planet Labs, minority stake in a real estate investments startup, Cadre in 2017.