DST Global, founded by Yuri Milner in 2009, is a venture capital firm based in the Cayman Islands, with additional offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm specializes in making minority investments in significant and rapidly growing internet companies, particularly in sectors such as information technology, mobile, e-commerce, and the Internet of Things. DST Global has established itself as one of the leading technology investors globally, with a portfolio that includes notable firms like Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and Alibaba. The company has also innovated a model for providing liquidity to founders, employees, and early investors through mixed primary and secondary transactions, which have become known as DST-type deals in the internet investment community.
Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
Lapse
Series A in 2024
Lapse is a social disposable camera app. The app lets close groups recreate the magic of old-school disposable cameras by taking 36 snaps to ‘rolls’ in private group chats.
Hirey App
Series A in 2023
Hirey is the chat-based hiring app that connects employers with candidates in seconds.
WATI
Series B in 2022
WATI is an early-stage, fast-growing SaaS platform that is revolutionizing how businesses communicate with their customers. We believe customer relationships are built through conversations, one message at a time. Through our cutting-edge customer engagement software built on WhatsApp’s Business API, businesses are now able to have personalized conversations, be easily accessible and engage with their customers in real-time - at scale! We live in the on-demand economy, where customers expect fast, simple and easy service and that’s exactly what our platform empowers companies to do. This is made possible through WATI’s easy-to-use platform that can be made up and running in no time. As a result, small and medium businesses have embraced the platform rapidly, and thousands of customers across 54 countries are now using WATI within just a year of launch.
Momo
Series C in 2013
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.
Momo
Series B in 2012
Momo is a free location-based services instant messaging application that enables smartphone users to chat with people nearby. It allows users to connect with others in the same location and share free texts, audio notes, and photographs over the internet. The app helps users find like-minded people around them anywhere and anytime. Since its launch in August, 2011, Momo has since registered 80 million users after two years and three months. The number of daily active users is 13 million and the number of monthly active users is 39 million. An average of 500 million messages are generated daily during one-on-one conversations or group chatting.
X (formerly Twitter)
Series G in 2011
X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications. As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.
ICQ
Acquisition in 2010
ICQ is a company that focuses on providing a global online communications platform through its instant messaging service. It offers a range of applications for various platforms, including desktop clients for PC, Mac, and Linux, as well as mobile applications for iOS. The company specializes in messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, delivering custom-made software solutions to enhance social communication. ICQ aims to create a localized yet expansive community for users to connect and communicate effectively.
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