YM

Yuri Milner

Founder at BREAKTHROUGH PRIZE FOUNDATION

United Kingdom

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $15,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $200,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder

    2012

    In 2012 Yuri and his wife Julia, together with Sergey Brin, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, and Anne Wojcicki, launched the Breakthrough Prizes – the world’s largest scientific awards, honoring important, primarily recent, achievements in Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences and Mathematics. Each year six $3m prizes are given to scientists and mathematicians in these fields, at a live, internationally televised gala award ceremony in Silicon Valley. The Prizes are funded by the foundations that they established, which also support the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, a global science video competition for high school students.

2009

  • Founder

    2009