Digital Sky Technologies is an investment firm based in Moscow, Russia. The company is a major investor in the Russian, CIS and Eastern European internet markets. It owns stakes in various internet companies that together account for over 70 percent of all hits on the Russian-speaking Internet. Its investments include the large social networks Vkontakte, Russian web portal Mail. ru and social networking company Forticom.

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  • Yuri Milner, CEO and Founding Partner; Gregory Finger, Founding Partner; Alexander Tamas, Partner; Verdi Israelian, Partner
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  • 2005-01-01 00:00:00 (xsd:date)
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  • Digital Sky Technologies is an investment firm based in Moscow, Russia. The company is a major investor in the Russian, CIS and Eastern European internet markets. It owns stakes in various internet companies that together account for over 70 percent of all hits on the Russian-speaking Internet. Its investments include the large social networks Vkontakte, Russian web portal Mail. ru and social networking company Forticom. Some of its income is from pay-per-click and selling virtual goods to users. According to Russian newspaper Kommersant, billionaire Alisher Usmanov owns nearly 32% of Digital Sky Technologies. Other minority investors in DST include Goldman Sachs, Tiger Global and Renaissance Capital. In May 2009 Digital Sky Technologies bought a 1.96% stake in the Facebook social media website for USD$200 million, valuing the site at $10 billion.
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  • Digital Sky Technologies is an investment firm based in Moscow, Russia. The company is a major investor in the Russian, CIS and Eastern European internet markets. It owns stakes in various internet companies that together account for over 70 percent of all hits on the Russian-speaking Internet. Its investments include the large social networks Vkontakte, Russian web portal Mail. ru and social networking company Forticom.
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  • Digital Sky Technologies
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