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Yandex
Consumer Services · Moscow, Russia · Founded 1997
Yandex mafia
Startups founded by Yandex alumni
Former Yandex employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Aleksandr MashrabovUnited States
Alexey MilovidovUnited States
Anton SlesarevUnited States
Nikolai LiubimovUnited States
Konstantin KruglovCyprus
Anna Veronika DorogushUnited Kingdom
Olga MegorskayaNetherlands
Anton ShchipanovUnited Kingdom
Alexey OrapUkraine
Yakov FilippenkoUnited States
Yaroslav GaninUnited StatesGlobal footprint
Where Yandex has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Yandex's talent
Dealroom maps Yandex's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$63M patent portfolio · 318 active families
Where Yandex concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Yandex and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Yandex's 39 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Yandex appeared as a backer or acquirer, 2010–2025. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
39 deals across Yandex's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Yandex deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Yandex's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Yandex
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Yandex on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.