Usmanov and Milner created DST Global-2

Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner created a new fund called Digital Sky Technologies Global-2, with a volume of several hundred million green already. A significant part of the fund was made by Western investment funds, while 75% of the first DST belonged to the Russian oligarch.



The first service in which DST Global-2 was invested was the notorious Groupon . At the beginning of this year, a consortium of investors invested $ 950 million in it, including DST. Shares of investments are not disclosed. It is worth noting that this is not the first investment in Groupon; up to 8% of this site belongs to the first DST fund.

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The second service will be Spotify , which is estimated at $ 1 billion. Thus, DST Global-2 is ready to buy 5% of the shares of this startup. Meanwhile, TechCrunch reported that total investments were around $ 100 million. Although, according to a source close to Vedomosti, the deal has not yet been completed, and negotiations are underway.







Let me remind you that at first the first DST fund mainly invested in large Russian projects, such as Mail.ru and Odnoklassniki, but in 2009 Milner and the company acquired 10% of Facebook, a share in Zynga, in Groupon and bought ICQ.