Former Vkontakte Shareholders Become Investors in Yuri Milner Funds

Lev Leviev and Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, former shareholders of Vkontakte, became shareholders of two DST Global funds. Through these funds, entrepreneurs manage shares in Alibaba, Facebook, Twitter, RBC writes . “I think that Yuri Milner is a brilliant investor, we were in DST II, ​​entered into DST IV and are happy with everything,” Lev Leviev said. Currently, the amount of investment in DST Global funds remains unknown.

Recall that DST funds invest in technology companies from around the world. One of the funds previously invested in the social network Facebook, the company Zynga, the service Groupon. A fund such as DST Global II was formed at the end of 2010, with the help of which it was possible to collect about $ 1 billion. At the same time, the share of Russian capital here was about 20%. After another 2 years, in 2012, DST Global III was formed, the amount of capital of which also amounted to $ 1 billion. The fourth DST fund was launched in 2014, with a capital of over $ 1 billion.

It is worth noting that the DST Global II fund has several shares in very well-known companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, Spotify, Alibaba, Xiaomi. The fourth fund has shares in the Indian taxi service Ola Cabs and corporate messenger Slack.
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Lev Leviev believes that almost all investments of DST funds are promising. For example, corporate Slack Messenger can work by itself, and can be used in conjunction with other services. “For example, my BlockTrail startup started with bitcoin analytics, but later we changed the focus and made a technology platform that allows anyone who wants to create bitcoin applications. As an experiment, BlockTrail made an open source application for sending bitcoins inside the Slack messenger, ”said the businessman.

As for Vyacheslav Mirilashvili, he is one of the first investors in the social network “Vkontakte”. A businessman invested $ 30 thousand in it. At present, Vyacheslav Mirilashvili’s fortune is estimated at $ 950 million. In 2013, both Lev Leviev and Vyacheslav Mirilashvili sold their shares in the Vkontakte social network to the United Capital Partners Ilya Scherbovich fund.