Industries:
Internet
Online Portals
Social Network
Investor Types:
Venture Capital
Investment Stages:
Location: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Mail.ru Group was founded by Yuri Milner and is the largest Internet company in the Russian-speaking world. It is one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, and the world`s seventh largest Internet business in terms of page views.
Mail.ru Group operates two of the three largest Russian language social networking sites
(Odnoklassniki.ru and Moi Mir@Mail.Ru), the two largest instant messaging networks in Russia (ICQ and Agent), Russia`s leading email service, Russia`s second largest Internet portal and Russia`s largest online games company.
Mail also holds strategic equity stakes of 32.49% in vKontakte, Russia`s largest social networking site, and 25.09% in QIWI, formerly OE Investments, one of Russia`s leading payment-processing companies. It also holds small minority stakes in Facebook, Zynga and Groupon.