Mail.Ru Group

About

Mail.Ru Group is an internet company that operates social networking sites, IM networks, email services, and internet portals.

Leningradskiy,Chukot,Russian Federation
1001 - 5000
https://corp.mail.ru/

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Corporate Round
Industries: Internet,Online Portals,Social Network
Founded date: Jan 1, 1998
Number Of Employee: 1001 - 5000
Operating Status: Active
Stock Symbol: mcx:MAIL
Legal Name: Mail.Ru Group Ltd
Investor Type: Venture Capital

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 [email protected]), 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.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

5

$335M

Mail.Ru Group has raised a total of $335M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jul 3, 2020 from a IPO round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jul 3, 2020	IPO	—	—	—	—	Detail
Oct 31, 2019	Post-IPO Secondary	$170M	1	Sberbank	—	Detail
Sep 11, 2018	Corporate Round	—	1	Alibaba Group	—	Detail
Feb 24, 2007	Private Equity（PE）	$165M	2	Prosus & Naspers	—	Detail
Dec 1, 2005	Series Unknown	—	1	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

29

12

Mail.Ru Group has made 29 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 7, 2021, when O2O Holdings raised ₽12.20B.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Oct 7, 2021 O2O Holdings	Series Unknown	₽12.20B		—
Aug 13, 2021 AliExpress Russia	Funding Round	$60M	E-Commerce	Yes
Dec 8, 2020 Uchi.ru	Corporate Round	₽3.75B	E-Learning	Yes
Nov 25, 2020 F3	Seed	$3.90M	Mobile Apps	—
Oct 13, 2020 Tetrika	Series B	$1.21M	Education	—

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

3

5

Mail.Ru Group is funded by 5 investors. Sberbank and Alibaba Group are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Sberbank	Yes	Post-IPO Secondary
Alibaba Group	Yes	Corporate Round
Prosus & Naspers	Yes	Private Equity（PE）
Elbrus Capital	—	Private Equity（PE）
Tiger Global Management	—	Series Unknown

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

20

Mail.Ru Group has 20 current employee profiles, including Executive Vladimir Gabrielyan

Executive

Executive

Employee

Executive

Executive

Exits

Mail.Ru Group has had 7 exits. Mail.Ru Group most notable exits include Skillbox , Instamart

Date	Company Name	Exit Type	Industry
Nov 4, 2021	Skillbox	M&A	E-Learning	Detail
Nov 30, 2020	Instamart	M&A	Delivery	Detail
Sep 9, 2020	Tetrika	M&A	Education	Detail
Jul 15, 2019	Vezet Group	M&A	Internet	Detail
Apr 15, 2019	Magisto	M&A	Apps	Detail

Acquisition

Mail.Ru Group has acquired 21 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Vatera.hu on Oct 5, 2008. They acquired Vatera.hu for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Oct 5, 2008 Vatera.hu	Auctions	—	—	Detail
Jul 2, 2012 RuTwit.ru	Information Technology	acquisition	—	Detail
Aug 30, 2012 mail.ua	Business Intelligence	acquisition	—	Detail
Sep 16, 2014 Vkontakte	Communities	acquisition	$ 1.47B	Detail
Aug 25, 2016 GeekBrains	EdTech	acquisition	—	Detail