Yandex

About

Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia.

Moscow,Moscow City,Russian Federation
5001 - 10000
http://www.yandex.ru

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Equity
Industries: Big Data,Developer Tools,Email,Information Technology,Mobile,Search Engine
Founded date: Sep 23, 1997
Number Of Employee: 5001 - 10000
Operating Status: Active
Stock Symbol: nasdaq:YNDX
Legal Name: Yandex LLC

Yandex is a multinational technology company that provides internet-related services and operates a search engine platform in Russia. It is one of the largest internet companies in Europe, operating Russia’s most popular search engine and its most visited website.

According to LiveInternet, for the three months ended September 30, 2015, they generated 57.1% of all search traffic in Russia.

They also operate in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Turkey.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

8

$2.32B

Yandex has raised a total of $2.32B in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Jun 25, 2020 from a Post-IPO Equity round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Jun 25, 2020	Post-IPO Equity	$1B	3	Roman Abramovich	—	Detail
Dec 17, 2013	Post-IPO Equity	—	1	—	—	Detail
May 24, 2011	IPO	$1.30B	—	—	—	Detail
Nov 1, 2009	Series Unknown	$11M	4	Almaz Capital Baring Vostok Capital Partners	—	Detail
Aug 1, 2009	Series Unknown	—	1	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

21

9

Yandex has made 21 investments. Their most recent investment was on Oct 28, 2021, when ClickHouse raised $250M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Oct 28, 2021 ClickHouse	Series B	$250M	Analytics	—
Sep 20, 2021 ClickHouse	Series A	$50M	Analytics	—
Dec 24, 2020 Genotek	Corporate Round	$4M	Bioinformatics	Yes
Sep 4, 2020 Yandex Self Driving Group	Post-IPO Equity	$100M	Autonomous Vehicles	Yes
Sep 4, 2020 Yandex Self Driving Group	Post-IPO Debt	$50M	Autonomous Vehicles	Yes

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

3

8

Yandex is funded by 8 investors. Roman Abramovich and Almaz Capital are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
Roman Abramovich	Yes	Post-IPO Equity
Almaz Capital	Yes	Series Unknown
Baring Vostok Capital Partners	Yes	Series Unknown
Alexander Abramov	—	Post-IPO Equity
Alexander Frolov	—	Post-IPO Equity
International Finance Corporation	—	Post-IPO Equity
RTP Global	—	Series Unknown
Tiger Global Management	—	Series Unknown

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles

53

Yandex has 53 current employee profiles, including Employee Arseny Smoogly

Employee

Employee

Executive

Executive

Employee

Exits

Yandex has had 3 exits. Yandex most notable exits include SalesPredict , Blekko

Date	Company Name	Exit Type	Industry
Jul 11, 2016	SalesPredict	M&A	Analytics	Detail
Mar 27, 2015	Blekko	M&A	News	Detail
Jun 18, 2012	Face.com	M&A	Artificial Intelligence	Detail

Acquisition

Yandex has acquired 28 organizations. Their most recent acquisition was Moikrug on Mar 31, 2007. They acquired Moikrug for 0.

Date Company Name	Industry	Acquisition Type	Price
Mar 31, 2007 Moikrug	Marketing	—	—	Detail
Jun 16, 2008 Smilink LLC	Commercial	acquisition	—	Detail
Oct 22, 2008 Mediaselling	Information Technology	—	—	Detail
Dec 24, 2010 WebVisor	Analytics	—	—	Detail
Jan 27, 2011 Loginza	Online Portals	—	—	Detail