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Yuri Milner
Founder of DST Global
United Kingdom
Overview
Yuri Milner is the Founder of the BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION and DST Global, known for investing in companies like Flexport and Brex at various stages of funding. His career highlights include founding multiple successful ventures and supporting innovative companies in the consumer internet and enterprise sectors.
Work Experience
Founder
2012 - Current
In 2012 Yuri and his wife Julia, together with Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, and Anne Wojcicki, launched the Breakthrough Prizes – the world’s largest scientific awards, honoring important, primarily recent, achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. Each year six $3m prizes are given to scientists and mathematicians in these fields, at a live, internationally televised gala award ceremony in Silicon Valley. The Prizes are funded by the foundations that they established, which also support the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global science video competition for high school students.
Breakthrough Prize honors important achievements in the categories of fundamental physics.
Founder
2009