Dmitry Sergeyevich Grishin ( born October 15, 1978 , Kapustin Yar , Astrakhan Oblast , USSR ) - Russian manager and venture investor ; Chairman of the Board of Directors and Co- Founder of Mail.ru Group [2] ; founder of the Grishin Robotics Investment Fund .
| Dmitry Sergeevich Grishin | |
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 Dmitry Grishin in 2011 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | USSR , Astrakhan region , the village of Kapustin Yar |
| Citizenship | |
| Education | Physics and Mathematics Gymnasium No. 4, Saratov (1985 - 1995) MSTU named after N.E. Bauman (1996 - 2001) |
| condition | (own statement) about $ 166 million for 2012 [1] |
| Company | Axiom Int. (USA) (1998 - 2001) |
| Position | Development Engineer → Senior Developer → IT Consultant |
| Company | netBridge Services (2000 - 2001) |
| Position | Head of Development Department Molotok.ru → Head of Service Center |
| Company | Mail.Ru Group (2001 - present) |
| Position | Technical Director → Executive Director → General Director |
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Biography
Born October 15, 1978 in the village of Kapustin Yar in an engineer’s family. He grew up among the employees of the rocket range and from childhood was fond of robotics [1] .
In 1995 he graduated from Physics and Mathematics Grammar School No. 4 in Saratov and entered the Faculty of Robotics and Integrated Automation of Bauman Moscow State Technical University , which he graduated in 2001 with honors with a degree in Computer Aided Design Systems [3] .
At age 20, in 1998, he began programming for Axiom Int., A software developer based in Clearwater , Florida . , where he coordinated a team of remote programmers. Subsequently, Dmitry Grishin left the company in 2001 as an IT consultant [4] .
Mail.ru
In March 2000, he led the development team for the Molotok.ru online auction at NetBridge Services . Then, faced with the need to expand the network infrastructure with a limited budget, he purchased used equipment from bankrupt dotcoms [1] .
After combining the assets of Yuri Milner with “Port.ru” as part of the Mail.ru holding, in early 2001 he was appointed head of the NetBridge Services service center, and at the end of the year - technical director of the new company [5] . In April 2003, twenty-four-year-old Grishin took over as CEO of the company [3] . Together with this position, he received an option for a 3.5% stake in the company [6] [7] .
In 2005, he was one of the co-founders of Digital Sky Technologies , and after the separation of Russian and foreign assets of the fund in 2010, he headed the Mail.ru Group [5] . In 2012, he replaced Yuri Milner as head of the board of directors [8] [9] .
Grishin is credited with the role of the company’s visionary, who determined the most promising areas for the development of Mail.ru Group - communication services and online games [5] . In November 2010, the company under his leadership held an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange [1] . Grishin owns a 1.05% stake in Mail.ru Group, the total value of which is $ 58 million. This fact allowed Dmitry Grishin to take the tenth position in the rating of capitalist directors published by Forbes magazine on November 22, 2018 [10] .
Grishin Robotics
In June 2012, he invested $ 25 million in opening a venture capital firm to invest in consumer robotics [11] . In the first year alone, 600 startups went through the foundation’s New York office [12] . The fund considers applications for seed financing from teams with a workable prototype, ready for market testing [13] . Since the launch, the fund has conducted 10 transactions [14] :
- Manufacturer of motorized stands for the iPad Double Robotics Inc. - 250 thousand dollars in September 2012 [15] ;
- RobotsApps.com Inc. Robot App Store - 250 thousand dollars in December 2012 [16] ;
- Incubator for hardware developers Bolt.io - $ 3.5 million in a syndicated round in February 2013 (it is estimated that Grishin Robotics investments amounted to about a million) [17] ;
- Satarii Inc. , producing a robotic video operator Swivl - 500 thousand dollars in May 2013 [18] ;
- Tiny satellite maker NanoSatisfi Inc. (subsequently renamed to Spire ) - 300 thousand dollars in July 2013 [19] ;
- Boombootix, developer of wireless multimedia devices - $ 4 million in a syndicated round in February 2014 [20] ;
- Orbotix smart toy maker - $ 15.5 million in a syndicated round in May 2014 [21] ;
- Member of the incubator Bolt.io, developer of the robot for animals PetNet - 1 million 125 thousand dollars in January 2014 [22] ;
- Platform for the study of electronics and prototyping littleBits - $ 44.2 million in a syndicated round in June 2015 [23] ;
- Occipital , a developer of a three-dimensional scanner for mobile devices - $ 13 million in a syndicated round in July 2015 [24]
Community Activities
He initiated the largest programming competition in Eastern Europe , the Russian Code Cup . Under his leadership, in 2011 Mail.ru Group opened a technology park at Bauman Moscow State Technical University . In the same year, he headed the Department of Internet Technologies at St. Petersburg ITMO University [5] [25] .
He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Safe Internet League , a public organization under the auspices of the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media , which aims to combat illegal content on Runet [26] .
Recognition
In February 2011, the Russian Forbes included Dmitry Grishin among the people who determine the face of the Russian Internet [27] . For his contribution to the creation of new technology markets, MIT Technology Review magazine included Grishin in the 2013 Innovators Under 35 list in the entrepreneurial category.
In the same year he was invited to the Board of Trustees of the MSTU Bauman [5] .
GQ Award in the nomination “Businessman of the Year” (2017) [28] .
Privacy
Married, lives and works in Moscow [29] . He studies Chinese , enjoys preference and tennis [30] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Antonio Regalado. Innovators Under 35: Dmitry Grishin . MIT Technology Review (August 21, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Dmitry Grishin Chairman of the Board of Directors and co-founder of Mail.Ru Group
- ↑ 1 2 Grishin Dmitry Sergeevich . RIA Novosti (February 28, 2011). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Eugene Kuprash. Dmitry Grishin: “A lot of people twisted a finger at the temple and exclaimed:“ What are you doing? You won’t succeed! ” . E-xecutive.ru (November 21, 2017). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Voting for Russian entrepreneurs: Dmitry Grishin . General Director (August 11, 2014). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Anastasia Golitsyna. Outstanding option . Vedomosti (July 28, 2008). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Source: Mail.ru CEO Grishin owns 2% of the DST fund . Forbes (August 18, 2010). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Anastasia Golitsyna. The founder of Mail.ru Group resigned from the board of directors . Vedomosti (March 15, 2012). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Executive Profile: Dmitry Grishin . Bloomberg Business . Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Who has the larger package: rating of capitalist directors. 10. Dmitry Grishin | Billionaires (English) (neopr.) ? . Forbes.ru (November 22, 2018). Date of treatment April 6, 2019.
- ↑ Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World . - Simon and Schuster, 2015 .-- S. 62 .-- 336 p. - ISBN 978-1-4767-0956-7 .
- ↑ Yulia Chernova. Robotics Investor Dmitry Grishin: The Future is Happening . The Wall Street Journal (July 23, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Barbara Ortutay. Russian Internet CEO launches robotics fund in NYC . Washington Times (June 15, 2012). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Andrea Forni. Robots The New Era. Living, working and investing in the robotics society of the future . - FRN Trading Strategies, 2015 .-- 521 p. - ISBN 9786050342598 .
- ↑ John Koetsier. Young startup Double Robotics scores $ 1.2M in sales for iPad-on-wheels robots . Venture Beat (September 21, 2012). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Ingrid Lunden. RobotAppStore Raises $ 250K From Grishin Robotics To Take The App Distribution Model To The World Of Robots . TechCrunch (December 10, 2012). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ John Biggs. Grishin Robotics Invests In Boston-Based Incubator, Bolt . TechCrunch (February 21, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Ki Mae Heussner. 'Personal cameraman' Swivl gets $ 500k from Grishin Robotics to go big in education . Gigaom (May 22, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Robin Wauters. Grishin Robotics invests $ 300,000 in NanoSatisfi, so you too can explore space . The Next Web (July 11, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Grishin Robotics is investing in a multimedia device developer . the Runet (February 3, 2014). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Olga Zhigulina. The Grishin Robotics Foundation has invested in a toy manufacturer . Zuckerberg will call (May 5, 2014). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Grishin Robotics will invest in PetNet's animal robot . Forbes (January 21, 2014). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Grishin Robotics invested in littleBits Forbes (June 25, 2015). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Svetlana Alekseeva. Grishin Robotics has invested in Occupictal's 3D scanner for mobile devices . Firrma.ru (July 29, 2015). Date of treatment August 12, 2015.
- ↑ Mail.ru Group CEO Dmitry Grishin headed the ITMO department . Forbes (September 19, 2011). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Jeffrey Carr. Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld . - O'Reilly Media, Inc, 2011 .-- S. 209-210. - 294 p. - ISBN 978-1-449-31004-2 .
- ↑ Andrei Babitsky. The owners of virtual reality . Forbes (February 28, 2011). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.gq.ru/person/winner-businessman-2017
- ↑ Maxim Spiridonov. Analytical program "Runetology", issue 215: Dmitry Grishin, founder and CEO of Mail.ru Group (December 25, 2013). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
- ↑ Vladimir Lavitsky, Alexander Malakhov. Grishin Dmitry Sergeevich, private affair . Kommersant (May 24, 2011). Date of treatment July 18, 2015.
Links
- grishinrobotics.com - the official site of Grishin Robotics
- Interview