Volkov Dmitry Borisovich

Volkov Dmitry Borisovich

Assets

For 2018, Social Discovery Ventures, co-founded by Dmitry Volkov, is engaged in supporting and investing in Internet projects, of which there are more than 50 in the company's portfolio. Among them are Shazam, a website for searching for fellow travelers TripTogether, a language learning application (LinguaLeo) and many others. SDVentures offices are open in the USA (New York), Hong Kong, Latvia (Riga), Russia (Moscow), Belarus (Minsk) and other countries.

Biography

Born July 9, 1976 in Moscow.

1998-2012

In 1998 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, then graduate school IMEIMO with a degree in International Relations. In 2003, together with foreign partners, he created the Social Discovery Ventures holding. In 2006 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, in 2008 he defended his thesis on philosophy. In 2010, he became one of the founders of the Moscow Center for Consciousness Research at Moscow State University. In 2012, he published the book Boston Zombies: D. Dennett and his theory of consciousness.

2019: Joining Forbes 200

In December 2019, Dmitry Volkov was among the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes. The magazine estimated the condition of the co-founder of one of the world's largest dating services Dating.com at $750 million.

The publication does not specify what place Volkov takes in the Forbes 200 rating. In the 2019 list itself, there are nine businessmen with a fortune of $750 million, they are in 137-145 places.

Dmitry Volkov is among the 200 richest businessmen in Russia according to Forbes

In October 2019, Volkov and his business partner Alla Gubenko combined assets and created the company Dating.com Group, which included such dating services as Dating.com, DateMyAge, Cherish, Tubit, AnastasiaDate, ChinaLove, AsianDate and Amolatina. At that time, the total audience of all applications and sites reached 73 million registered users.

Dating.com Group plans to expand: at the end of November 2019, the company bought 100% of the American Dil Mil service for expats from India for $50 million, part of the transaction was paid with shares.

In the deiting industry, business consolidation is underway, and I see the potential in it. I had the opportunity to participate in this big game and resources to do it, "Volkov said.

Dmitry Volkov is actively engaged in investment. He was one of the first to invest in the Shazam music recognition application, and also invested in the popular Patreon service, which allows you to donate money to content creators. The total investments of the entrepreneur in venture funds by December 2019 are estimated at $50 million.

In the most current Forbes rating for December 2019, among the richest businessmen in Russia, Leonid Mikhelson, chairman of the board of the largest private gas company Novatek in Russia, with a fortune of $24 billion, leads. In total, there are 100 dollar billionaires and 100 multimillionaires in the ranking. The total fortune of the 200 richest Russians is $496 billion.^[1]

Social and scientific activities

As part of his philosophical activity, Dmitry Volkov in 2014 organized a philosophical expedition to the shores of Greenland, in which world-famous philosophers Daniel Dennet, Nick Humphrey, Andy Clark, Jesse Prince, Derk Perebum and David Chalmers, as well as students and graduate students of Moscow State University, took part. In addition, Dmitry Volkov is actively interested in modern Russian art. With the support of Social Discovery Ventures, the albums "Actual Art" are published, introducing the public to the work of modern artists from Russia. Dmitry Volkov himself, together with artist Oleg Kulik, in 2015 took part in the Burning Man festival of modern art in the United States. Volkov also organized the Festival of Street Pianos in Moscow and Sochi in the fall of 2015.

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