DST Global

DST Global is one of the world's leading internet investment firms, focused on late-stage, high-growth internet and technology companies globally. The firm targets category leaders — typically companies 4–5 years old, valued at $1 billion or more — deploying large minority checks (often $20M–$500M) without requiring board seats or voting rights, a deliberately founder-friendly structure that Yuri Milner has described as core to DST Global's philosophy. Key sectors include consumer internet, fintech, marketplaces, enterprise software, and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. Since its founding in 2009 as a spinoff from Digital Sky Technologies, DST Global has backed transformative platforms such as Facebook, Alibaba, Twitter, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Spotify, Airbnb, ByteDance, Stripe, and Databricks. The firm manages an estimated $50 billion in AUM across nine funds and has produced 63 unicorns, 27 IPOs, and 30 acquisitions across a portfolio of more than 200 companies spanning the US, China, India, Europe, and beyond.