Forbes experts publish the so-called Midas List annually. people who were not afraid to invest millions of dollars in an ambitious, but sometimes risky project. Russian entrepreneurs who know how to assess the potential of any undertaking and invest in the most worthwhile ones do not stand aside.
It was they who entered the Top 10 most successful venture investors in Russia in 2013.
10. Sergey Belousov
Under the management of the Runa Capital fund, owned by Belousov, - $ 135 million. Until 2012, the fund had a share in the capital of the British company ThinkGrid, which provides cloud services. Together with the Alexander Galitsky Foundation, Belousov is a co-owner of Parallels IT company.
9. Marina Treshchova
The only woman in the top ten venture capital investors, until 2012, was the co-owner of the online shoe store Sapato. Among other well-known projects of the Treshchova Foundation is the Shopping Live television store.
8. Andrey Kazakov
The youngest member of the Top 10 is only 27 years old, but his Foresight Ventures fund has already made several successful deals. The first is a joint participation in the creation of a service for comparing prices for DealAngel hotels, as well as the social network of Rentjuice realtors and a service for Flextrip travel agencies.
7. Ulvi Kasimov
The largest transaction of the Kasimov IQ One venture fund is the sale of part of the shares of the cloud service for Megaplan business automation to the market leader - 1C. Kasimov - one of the largest investors in the Peterhof Fund - he contributed 5 million rubles, having received part of the fund under his management.
6. Eduard Shenderovich
Created by Shenderovich in 2006, the Kite Ventures fund has about $ 60 million under management. The most successful investments of the fund are the gaming sites Kanobu.ru, OGL ru, WorldGames.ru, GamesLife.ru, the discount website Darberry, and the hotel reservation site Ostrovok.
5. Mikhail Chuchkevich
Under the management of Bright Capital venture fund, led by Chuchkevich, - $ 220 million. The largest deal of the fund in recent years is the sale of the DealAngel hotel selection service. Chuchkevich began venture capital investments as an adviser to Chubais at the Rusnano Group of Companies.
4. Alexander Galitsky
The founder of Almaz Capital Partners has about $ 200 million under management. Galitsky is one of the sponsors of the high-profile Foundation B612 project, whose goal is to raise money for the production of a space telescope for tracking asteroids.
3. Leonid Boguslavsky
Boguslavsky is a co-owner of ru-Net Ventures venture capital funds, RTP Ventures. The capitalist is involved in more than 20 companies, mainly related to the Internet. The investor owns a 20% stake in one of the largest online stores in Runet - the Ozon.ru megamarket.
2. Victor Remsha
For the first time, they talked about Remsha as a successful venture investor after the sale in 2012 of 49.9% of the Begun advertising service of the United Company "Rambler" and "Poster". The head of the Finam fund is also known for investing in the resource Banki.ru, a service for compiling horoscopes Astrostar, as well as in the production of computer games.
1. Yuri Milner
The founder of the DTS fund is the most successful venture investor and the only one among the Russians to be in the global Midas List, taking the 35th line. Milner received fabulous profits from investments in Facebook, Zygna, Groupon and other Internet projects. The most promising of Milner’s current investments are the IPO Twitter, as well as the Chinese Alibaba Group.
