Dmitry Grishin spent years building Internet companies in Russia, first with Molotok.ru, an eBay copycat he founded in 2000, and then as a cofounder and CEO of Mail.ru Group, a Russian Internet conglomerate that is essentially that country’s version of Yahoo. But lately he’s been hoping to translate his success online to the world of personal robotics—a lifelong love—with the launch last year of venture firm Grishin Robotics, which has so far made five investments in companies ranging from hardware accelerator Bolt to on-demand, inexpensive satellite provider NanoSatisfi. This year, the 34-year-old was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35.
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