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by vellum 4468 days ago
The remaining 40 percent of VK belonged to the Mail.ru group, co-owned by … Alisher Usmanov.

Usmanov owns shares in a lot of Silicon Valley companies.[1] Mail.ru's former chairman, Yuri Milner, funded the automatic Y Combinator investments from 2011-2013.[2]

1: http://www.usm-group.com/internet.html

Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Groupon, Zynga, Spotify, Zalando, ZocDoc, Airbnb, Alibaba and 360buy.

2: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/16/us-venture-milner-...