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PublicNASDAQ:YNDX
Date5/11
Raised
Post IPO Valuation

General Information

Websiteyandex.ru
Blogcompany.yandex.co...
Twitter@yandexcom
CategorySearch
Phone+7 495 739-70-00
Emailpr@yandex-team.com
Employees4,000
Founded9/97
DescriptionRussian Search Engine

Offices

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People

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
CEO at Yandex.Turkey
Chief Product Officer
Chief Technology Officer, Yandex Labs
Chief Financial Officer
Vice President of Investor Relations
Board
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Former People

Chief Financial Officer
Chief Accounting and Administrative Officer
Chief Editor
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Acquisitions

Total$39.4M
SPB Software, 11/11 $38M
The Tweeted Times, 8/11
Loginza, 1/11
WebVisor, 12/10
Mediaselling, 10/08 $1.43M
Moikrug, 3/07

Investments

Blekko 9/11
Vizi Labs 9/10
Face.com 9/10

Funding

TOTAL $5.3M
FUNDING TOTAL $5.3M
Series A, 4/00
Baring Vostok Capital Partners
ru-Net Holdings
Tiger Technology Global Management
$5.3M

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Yandex

Yandex is an internet technologies company that operates in Russia, CIS and Turkey. It is the largest Russian and fourth-largest world internet search engine. Yandex is an acronym for the phrase Yet Another Indexer.

As of March 2013, Yandex had about 61% of the Russian search market (source: LiveInternet.ru).

Yandex’s mission is to give the answer to the user anytime and anywhere. Company provides its services for desktop and mobile users and develops embedded solutions as well.

The company specializes on highly-targeted sophisticated web search and information retrieval services based on world-class technologies like a proprietary machine-learning method MatrixNet.

Yandex provides localized services for its users, as well as enables them to search for websites in other languages.

In addition to web search the company offers dozens of free online services, granting access to extensive local, national and international information. The services include maps; traffic jams information; photo hosting; cloud storage; news service; spam-free email and many others.

In 2012, Yandex’s revenue totaled to $947.1 million while net income jumped to $288.7 million. Contextual ads accounted for 87% of the company’s revenues as of Q4 2012.

Recent Milestones

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    Yandex — Yandex releases the new search tool for scientists at CERN (1/31/13)
    Posted 3/26/13 at 9:47am via yandex.com
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    Yandex — Yandex sells 75% of its Yandex.Money division to Sberbank (12/19/12)
    Posted 3/26/13 at 9:53am via thenextweb.com
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    Yandex added Mehmet Ali Yalcindag as CEO at Yandex.Turkey. (7/1/12)
    Posted 3/26/13 at 9:55am
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    Yandex — Tech Meets Geo-Tech: Russia’s Search Giant Yandex Takes $1M, 25% Stake In Seismotech (6/22/12)
    Posted 6/22/12 at 6:33pm via techcrunch.com
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    Yandex — Yandex Buys Stake In Russian Online Crowd-Editing Application Developer Citrea (4/17/12)
    Posted 4/18/12 at 1:33am via invest-iq.net
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    Yandex added Bernard Lukey as Director at Yandex.Europe. (3/10/12)
    Posted 3/26/13 at 6:09am
  • Check
    Yandex added Vladimir Isaev as Head of International Media Relations. (1/23/12)
    Posted 3/26/13 at 9:27am
  • Handshake
    Yandex acquired SPB Software for $38M. (11/28/11)
    Posted 11/28/11 at 3:42am via techcrunch.com
  • Dollar
    Yandex invested in Blekko. (9/29/11)
    Posted 9/29/11 at 4:48pm via techcrunch.com
  • Handshake
    Yandex acquired The Tweeted Times. (8/26/11)
    Posted 8/26/11 at 4:34am via techcrunch.com
  • Check
    Yandex — Yendex financed Zenmoney.ru (6/8/11)
    Posted 6/9/11 at 9:34pm via ewdn.com
  • Stock
    Went public with stock symbol NASDAQ:YNDX. (5/24/11)
    Posted 5/9/11 at 7:19pm
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    Yandex — Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (5/9/11)
    Posted 5/9/11 at 7:26pm via techcrunch.com
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    Yandex — Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (4/28/11)
    Posted 4/28/11 at 7:15pm via techcrunch.com
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    Yandex — Yandex creates Yandex.Factory to invest in Russian and foreign startups (4/1/11)
    Posted 5/13/11 at 10:46am via ewdn.com
  • Handshake
    Yandex acquired Loginza. (1/27/11)
    Posted 1/27/11 at 9:45pm via techcrunch.com

Videos

 
 
Above:

Wonder app for iPhone by Yandex Labs

Added: 4/9/13
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Yandex.Store for Android

Added: 4/9/13
Above:

Everyone is waiting for Spring

Added: 4/9/13
Above:

Yandex Labs x CMU Silicon Valley: Personalized TV controlled by gestures

Added: 4/9/13

Screenshots

Yandex screenshot
Above: Yandex
Uploaded: 6/2/10
Yandex screenshot
Above: Yandex.com
Uploaded: 6/8/10
Yandex screenshot
Above: Main page
Uploaded: 3/26/13

Products

People's Map
Yandex Advertising Network
Yandex Search
Yandex for mobile
Yandex.Amenities
Yandex.Auto
Yandex.Browser
Yandex.Catalog
Yandex.Direct
Yandex.Disk
Yandex.Fotki
Yandex.Garderobe
Yandex.Images
Yandex.Job
Yandex.Mail
Yandex.Mail for domain
Yandex.Maps
Yandex.Market
Yandex.Metrics
Yandex.Money
Yandex.Music
Yandex.News
Yandex.Realty
Yandex.TV
Yandex.Taxi
Yandex.Timetable
Yandex.Traffic
Yandex.Trains
Yandex.Video
Yandex.Weather
Yandex.Widgets

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Sources

  1. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Mobile Software Developer SPB For $38 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Russian Search Giant Yandex Acquires Social News Startup ‘The Tweeted Times’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Yandex Acquires Single Sign-In Service Loginza (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Yandex acquires WebVisor’s behavior analysis technology, team (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. Yandex Acquires Display Ad Firm Mediaselling (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
  6. Russia's Yandex Acquires Biz Social Networking Site (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  7. Search Engine Blekko Raises $30 Million From Russian Search Giant Yandex And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. EDGAR [edit]
  9. Facial Recognition Tech Startup Face.com Raises $4.3M From Yandex And Other (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Quintura Blog (blog.quintura.com) [edit]
  11. Yandex Buys Smilink (company.yandex.com) [edit]
    Yandex Acquires GIS Technologies (company.yandex.com) [edit]
    Yandex Offers Golden Share to Sberbank (invest-iq.com) [edit]
    Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
    Yandex Follows up WebVisor Deal With Acquisition of Loginza (invest-iq.com) [edit]
    Russian Search Giant Yandex Seeks To Raise Up To $1 Billion In IPO (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Russian Search Giant Yandex Prices $1.2B IPO At $20 To $22 Per Share (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Yandex to invest in Russian and foreign startups (ewdn.com) [edit]
    Yandex history, from startup to IPO (ewdn.com) [edit]
    Yandex invests in personal finance startup (ewdn.com) [edit]
    Yandex Buys Stake In Russian Online Crowd-Editing Application Developer Citrea (invest-iq.net) [edit]
    Tech Meets Geo-Tech: Russia’s Search Giant Yandex Takes $1M, 25% Stake In Seismotech (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Yandex Joins CERN openlab (company.yandex.com) [edit]
    Yandex sells 75% of its online payment service to Russia’s largest bank Sberbank for $60 million (thenextweb.com) [edit]
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