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A Russian-born, Israeli tech investor, Yuri Milner was an early backer of Facebook and Twitter through his venture fund, DST Global. Milner sold those stakes and later invested in Spotify and...

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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.

Yuri Milner, (born November 11, 1961, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.), 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.

Yuri Milner. Founder, DST Global, Breakthrough Prizes, Breakthrough Initiatives. Yuri Milner is a technology investor and science philanthropist. He was born in 1961, and named after Yuri Gagarin, the cosmonaut who had earlier that year become the first human in space.

Yuri Milner is a technology investor and science philanthropist, and the founder of the Breakthrough Initiatives. Growing up in the 1960s, he read Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan’s book Intelligent Life in the Universe, which sparked a lifelong fascination with the subject.

Yuri Milner | Technology Investor & Science Philanthropist DST Global, Yuri Milner and Russia Fact Sheet Some questions have occasionally been raised about Yuri Milner’s and DST Global’s background in relation to Russia. The relevant facts are set out below. Yuri Milner

Manifesto. In 2021, Yuri Milner published some of his ideas in a book, Eureka Manifesto: the Mission for Our Civilization. The manifesto gives his perspective on humanity’s place in the Universe, the mission it entails, and the future we could be part of if we embrace this mission.