DST Global

Welcome to Digital Sky Technologies.

DST is a leading global Internet holding company that originated in the Russian speaking world. We estimate that our companies comprise well over 70% of all pageviews in the Russian speaking Internet, targeting a potential audience of over 300 million people. Our companies hold the #1 and often also the #2 and #3 positions in all CIS states, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia. DST is focused on proven Internet business models that are actively shaping the industry, including social networking and communications, e-payment solutions, online marketplaces, MMO and social games and vertical specific websites.
Welcome to Digital Sky Technologies .

DST is a leading global Internet holding company that originated in the Russian speaking world. We estimate that our companies comprise well over 70% of all pageviews in the Russian speaking Internet, targeting a potential audience of over 300 million people. Our companies hold the #1 and often also the #2 and #3 positions in all CIS states, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia. DST is focused on proven Internet business models that are actively shaping the industry, including social networking and communications, e-payment solutions, online marketplaces, MMO and social games and vertical specific websites.
Welcome to Digital Sky Technologies.

DST is a leading global Internet holding company that originated in the Russian speaking world. We estimate that our companies comprise well over 70% of all pageviews in the Russian speaking Internet, targeting a potential audience of over 300 million people. Our companies hold the #1 and often also the #2 and #3 positions in all CIS states, including Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Armenia. DST is focused on proven Internet business models that are actively shaping the industry, including social networking and communications, e-payment solutions, online marketplaces, MMO and social games and vertical specific websites.

How are we useful for you

investment

Many people would say that it is absolute madness to keep on doing the same thing, time after

personal finance

When someone does something that they know that they shouldn’t do, did they really.

trust management

Point of Sale hardware, the till at a shop check out, has become very complex over the past ten

consulting

Photographs are a way of preserving a moment in our lives for the rest of our lives. Many of

about us

Investment is a key to long-term wealth

– Yuri Milner
CEO of DST Global

DST Global

One of the largest pure play Internet investors globally

DST is the largest Internet investor in the Russian and Eastern European markets and one of the largest investment groups globally to exclusively focus on the Internet and Internet related companies.

We believe that the emergence of the Internet is one of the most important and fundamental trends of our time and that we are still in the early stages of this trend. In our view the next decade will be equally if not even more important than the previous decade and we want to partner with our companies to help them realise their full potential in this ever changing and dynamic business environment.

work in figures

Weekly turnover of the company

237

Clients working with us

18%

Average profit of our clients

92%

So many years we help people to manage money

Strategy

DST’s strategy is to become a long term partner for best in class management teams with a strong vision, values and integrity, operating best in class Internet companies paired with an ambition to build great businesses.

Very long term view

The companies themselves are more important than a set guideline of investment principles and we therefore have a wide range of different ownership positions, from minority stakes to majority positions, across our portfolio of companies.

Flexible investment profile

So far our investments have ranged from $1 million to $200 million, with a typical deal size of between $10 million to $100 million. We prefer our companies to have a proven business model and to be profitable on an EBITDA and Net Income basis or well on a path to achieving such profitability.

Typical investment of $10 million to $100 million

DST has a strong track record of supporting its companies in making strategic acquisitions and all major M&A decisions are typically made jointly with the operating companies.

Prefer profitable companies

Selected Portfolio Companies

@MAIL.RU

Mail.ru is the leading web-portal in the Russian speaking world. The company has 50 million registered accounts in its core product – free email. The company has also successfully diversified into 40 other products, including search, MMO-games, social networking, instant messaging and other verticals. It has a monthly user base of over 30 million and 12 million daily visitors.

FORTICOM

Forticom Group is one of the world’s largest social networking companies, and the owner and operator of the leading social networks Russia/CIS (Odnoklassniki.ru), Poland (Nasza-Klasa.pl), the Baltics (One.lv, One.lt), and other markets.

VKONTAKTE.RU

Vkontakte.ru is a leading social network in the Russian speaking world with over 50 million registered users. With over 1.7 billion daily pageviews and 10m visitors per day, it is one of the most popular websites globally.

FACEBOOK

Facebook is the largest social network and one of the largest websites globally with over 350 million monthly users and over 175 million daily visitors. In more than 50 countries, Facebook's user base is 10%+ of the country’s population. More than 2.5 billion photos and 14 million videos are uploaded every month by users who spend close to 10 billion minutes every day on Facebook. The site is available in 70 languages.

ZYNGA

Zynga is the largest social gaming company globally with over 230 million monthly active users and over 65 million daily active users playing its games. Its most popular games include FarmVille, the largest online application with over 70 million monthly active users, Café World, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars, YoVille, FishVille and PetVille. Zynga’s games are available on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Tagged, Yahoo! and the iPhone. Out of 350,000 active applications on Facebook today, Zynga owns 5 out of the top 10.

ASTRUM ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT

Astrum Online Entertainment is the largest developer and operator of MMO games in Russia operating more than 30 MMO game titles. Nival Online, Nikita.Online, IT Territory, TimeZero and DJ Games operate under the Astrum umbrella.

OE INVESTMENTS

OE Investments is the largest Russian operator of electronic payments and owns two leading payment systems, OSMP and E-port. It also owns related assets that diversify the services offered, namely Direct Contact, a payment on-terminal advertising system, and the Mobile Wallet company, a mobile payment application operator.

HEADHUNTER

HeadHunter.ru is the #1 Russian job site, providing recruitment classifieds and related services to job seekers and Corporate Customers. In addition to Russia, the company has a strong presence in Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

CED

Center For Economic Development operates the leading Russian e-commerce platform that allows small, medium and large enterprises to effectively engage in online trading.