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Yandex
Russian multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related products and services, including search and information services, eCommerce, transportation, navigation, mobile applications, and online advertising
At a glance
- Founded
- 1997
- Headquarters
- Moscow, Russia
- Sector
- Consumer Services
- Power Law
- Decacorn$10B+ valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning Yandex.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
Tiger Global
RTP Global- BPBaring Vostok Capital Partners
Series B and later1 investor entered at this stage
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former Yandex employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
HIHiggsfieldEst. 2023
Aleksandr MashrabovUnited States
CLClickHouseEst. 2021
Alexey MilovidovUnited States
AVAvrideEst. 2017
Anton SlesarevUnited States
HEHeartexEst. 2018
Nikolai LiubimovUnited States
Konstantin KruglovCyprusGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
318 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where Yandex was the 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.
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.
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
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about Yandex on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
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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