Yuri Milner

Science Exchange Raises $3 Million to Help Outsource Experiments

Peter Kafka in News on April 29 at 11:12 am PT

Airbnb for lab techs and lab equipment? Sure! Union Square and a lot of other boldfaced names are in.

Moon Shot: Earthbound Investor Milner Talks About Origins of the Universe at SXSW

Kara Swisher in News on March 9 at 9:18 am PT

Well-known Russian digital dude thinks the big thoughts.

Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe on One Million-DNA March and More (Video)

Kara Swisher in Commerce on January 14 at 3:00 am PT

Can the personal genome company get people to keep spitting for their health?

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Prismatic Banks $15 Million in Venture Capital

Mike Isaac in Social on December 5, 2012 at 10:23 am PT

Social news reading app Prismatic announced a new Series A round of venture funding on Wednesday, banking another $15 million. Participating in the round were Accel Partners, Jim Breyer and Yuri Milner. The Prismatic app is something of a hybrid between Zite, Flipboard and other news apps, using your social channels to personalize the type of news that appears in your feed.

Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer in Talks to Join Jawbone Board

Kara Swisher in Media on October 18, 2012 at 11:59 am PT

Will famous techie Up the ante for wireless device maker?

Codecademy Rounds Up $10 Million for Web Lessons

Peter Kafka in Social on June 19, 2012 at 4:01 am PT

Index, Kleiner Perkins, Richard Branson and Yuri Milner back the 10-month-old “learn to code” start-up.

Zynga Loses Its CTO of Mobile as Shares Trade Lower

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 29, 2012 at 11:50 am PT

Game Closure, which is building a platform to make it easy for games to be played across multiple devices, said it has hired Laurent Desegur, Zynga’s CTO of mobile.

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Jawbone Gets $40 Million From Deutsche Telekom, Kleiner Perkins

Lauren Goode in News on December 21, 2011 at 1:25 pm PT

Jawbone, maker of nifty audio devices and the recently recalled UP fitness wristband, has raised $40 million from Deutsche Telekom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Yuri Milner and investors advised by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. The new capital brings Jawbone’s funding to date close to $210 million. CEO Hosain Rahman has said that the company plans to introduce more products in the healthcare and audio markets, according to GigaOM.

Saudi Prince Invests $300M in Twitter

Liz Gannes in Social on December 18, 2011 at 11:38 pm PT

Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — the nephew of the Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, and one of the richest people in the world — has invested $300 million in Twitter.