Kick-starting this year’s Seedcamp Week in London is Ilya Segalovich, Chief Technology Officer at Yandex. If you’ve never heard of it, you might want to get Googling.
What you’ll find is that the search company is much bigger in its home market of Russia than Google, handling 65% of all searches there.
It’s just had the biggest IPO on New York’s Nasdaq since Google, raising $1.4 billion when it listed in May… and it’s recently launched an English language search engine.
“If you address the right product with a good technology, you’ll be successful.”
Yandex isn’t the only Russian tech company to enjoy a blockbuster IPO over the past year. Mail.ru raised around $1 billion when it listed in London last November.
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