Boris Dobrodeev
CEO @ VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)
Boris Dobrodeev is a corporate round investor at VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group) focused on Big Data and Analytics. Boris Dobrodeev took the position of Mail.Ru Group's Director for Strategy and Development in November 2014, while retaining his position asthe CEO of VKontakte.In 2013 was appointed Deputy CEO of VKontakte, stepping up to CEO in September 2014.2012 through 2014 he worked as the Head of the Internet Asset Management Department at USMAdvisors.Boris worked as Analyst in Metalloinvest from 2006 to 2009, and occupied the position of a Business Development Director at an online video company Zoomby.ru 2009 through 2011. From 2011 to 2012 worked as an Investment Analyst in DST Advisors.Boris Dobrodeev graduated from Moscow State University, Russia, in 2007, with a degree in History, and holds the Master in International Business Degree obtained from Moscow State University Business School in 2009.
- Total investments:
- 2
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- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Boris Dobrodeev invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Big Data 1 (50%)
- Analytics 1 (50%)
- Education 1 (50%)
- E-Learning 1 (50%)
Investments
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| Uchi.ru offers online courses for school students. | $51.1M / Corporate Round / Dec 08, 2020 | ||
| SkillFactory is a data science education startup offers a range of assets, including an online big data analysis and coding school. | Corporate Round / Jul 06, 2020 |
About VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group)
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.
VK (ex. Mail.Ru Group) Contacts
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Alexey Milevskiy
Investment Director
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Boris Dobrodeev
CEO
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Alexander Mishulin
Creative Director, Client Games Development
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Eugene Mychlo
Deputy of Chief Maintenance Officer
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Nikolay Ermishkin
Information Security Analyst
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What does Boris Dobrodeev invest in?
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