Yuri Gurski Explained

Yuri Gurski
Birth Date:23 January 1983
Birth Place:Minsk, USSR (Now Belarus)
Spouse:Divorced[1]
Alma Mater:Belarusian State University, IPM Business School
Occupation:IT entrepreneur
Years Active:Since 2006

Yuri Gurski (Belarusian: Юры Анатол'евіч Гурскі, born 23 January 1983) is an IT entrepreneur, co-founder and President of Flo.Health[2] and several startups subsequently acquired by Facebook, Mail.ru Group, Google and Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.

Yuri is a Co-founder and CEO at Palta.com (previously known as Haxus), a health & well-being tech company,[3] which best-known products are Flo and Lensa apps.[4]

In 2016, GoalEurope called Gurski "the most successful IT entrepreneur in Eastern Europe."[5]

Life

Yuri Gurski was born on 23 January 1983 in Minsk, Belarus.[6]

In 2000, he graduated from secondary school No. 219. In 2008, he completed a master’s degree in journalism from Belarusian State University. In 2010, he obtained an Executive MBA degree from the IPM Business School under the Kozminski University program (Warsaw, Poland).[7]

Gurski worked as the CEO of the Piter M LLC (the representative office of the in Minsk) from September 2003 to December 2009.

In 2008, he co-founded Ideanomix book house in partnership with one of the largest CIS publishing houses, EKSMO. Since 2006, he has been working in the IT sector.

He has a twin brother, Dmitry, who is a CEO of Flo.[8]

In 2016, Gurski and his family moved to the city of Limassol, Cyprus. Yuri is a vegetarian.[9]

IT-Business

In 2009, Gurski co-founded Viaden Mobile, part of Viaden Media. The company’s main focus was the creation of fitness and gaming apps, including All-in Pedometer, Yoga.com, and All-in Fitness.[10] In 2012, Viaden Mobile was acquired by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.[11]

In 2013, Gurski took over as CEO of Sport.com, which specialized in fitness apps. Under his leadership, the company had become an HTP-company and developed several popular mobile applications for sports and fitness.[12] He left the project in 2014.[13]

In 2014, he became a mentor of the Maps.me project. During Yuri's two-year tenure, the project grew into a large mobile offline map for travelers with over 90 million installations across the world. Later the same year it was acquired by the Mail.ru Group corporation to become a part of the My.com brand.

Gurski also joined Mail.ru in November 2014.[14] In 2016, he held the position of Vice President of new product development. He left Mail.ru Group on 29 July 2016. Representatives of Mail.Ru Group stated the conflict of interest as the reason for dismissal. The issue has been resolved through the parties have come to the understanding that the conflict of interest did not take place.[15] [16]

He was a mentor and investor of the MSQRD project (video and photo selfie app), acquired by Facebook on 9 March 2016.[17] [18]

Gurski co-founded Palta, which in 2015 created the Flo, an AI-powered women’s health platform. In October 2018, Palta received $200 million valuation. As of 2021, It has more than 2.4 million active subscribers and employs over 600 people across its offices in London, Munich, Limassol, Vilnius, and Warsaw. Other company products include Simple, a nutrition and behavioral health tool, and Zing Coach, an AI-backed fitness coach.[19] [20] [21]

In 2017, Google bought the AIMATTER start-up owned by Gurski and Yury Melnichek.[22] This year Yuri participated in the preparation of the decree On the development of the digital economy which was intended to create unprecedented conditions for the development of the IT industry to turn Belarus into an international tech haven.[23] Gurski commented on the prospects of the decree on Belarusian television.

In spring 2018, Gurski cooperated with the management team at Gagarin Capital, which invests in AI-based projects, including photo service Prisma and later Lensa based on it.[24] [25]

In August 2021, Palta announced that it had raised $100 million in a Series B funding round led by Per Brillioth at VNV Global.[26]

Publications

Gurski was the owner of the Ideanomix publishing house, and an author of about 30 popular books on information technology, including a bestseller about Photoshop.

Selected works:

Awards and recognition

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Развод IT-миллионера . officelife.media . 13 December 2022 . ru-RU.
  2. Web site: Magistretti . Bérénice . 2017-08-11 . Flo raises $5 million for its AI-powered period-tracking app . 2024-05-06 . VentureBeat . en-US.
  3. Web site: Palta — Co-Founding Company. 2021-08-04. palta.com.
  4. Web site: Howell . David . Alexey Gubarev: "Cyprus could become the technological center of Europe." . Silicon UK . 7 December 2022.
  5. Web site: Want the mentor of Prisma, MSQRD, Maps.me invest in your startup?. 27 July 2016. goaleurope.com. 6 March 2018.
  6. Web site: Lee . Allen . 10 Things You Didn't Know about Yuri Gurski . Money Inc . 7 December 2022 . 15 August 2021.
  7. Web site: Executive MBA - Kozminski University - Warsaw, Poland . www.kozminski.edu.pl . 7 December 2022 . en.
  8. Web site: 15 беларусов, которые окончили Executive MBA и попали в рейтинг самых влиятельных бизнесменов . Kyky.org . 7 December 2022 . ru.
  9. Web site: Ганжур . Елена . Кинякина . Екатерина . Вторая жизнь Prisma: кто выкупил долю Mail.ru Group в известном фотоприложении . Forbes.ru . 13 December 2022 . ru.
  10. http://www.rbc.ru/technology_and_media/11/03/2016/56e158739a79473e42093a9b Минский экспресс: зачем Facebook купил совсем молодой сервис MSQRD
  11. http://naviny.by/rubrics/computer/2016/02/10/ic_news_128_470602 Белорусский IT-бизнесмен Юрий Гурский стал вице-президентом Mail.Ru Group
  12. Web site: Юрий Гурский объявил об уходе из sport.com . PROBUSINESS.IO . 7 December 2022 . ru . 16 October 2014.
  13. Web site: Сооснователь Sport.com Юрий Гурский стал вице-президентом по новым продуктам Mail.Ru Group . Digital Report . 7 December 2022 . ru-RU . 10 February 2016.
  14. https://corp.mail.ru/ru/press/releases/9520/ Mail.Ru Group объявляет о новых назначениях
  15. Web site: Стулов . М . Mail.ru Group урегулировала конфликт из-за Prisma . Ведомости . 7 December 2022 . ru.
  16. Web site: Голицына . Анастасия . Mail.ru Group урегулировала конфликт из-за Prisma . Ведомости . 14 December 2022 . ru.
  17. https://dev.by/lenta/main/yuriy-gurskiy-ob-yasnil-prirodu-oshelomitelnogo-uspeha-msqrd «Это не чудо»: Юрий Гурский объяснил природу ошеломительного успеха MSQRD
  18. Web site: Facebook buys popular face swapping app for silly selfies. businessinsider.com. 6 March 2018.
  19. Web site: US FemTech Market Leader Flo Health Completes $12M Series A; Scores $200M Valuation. Health. Flo. www.prnewswire.com. en. 2018-10-25.
  20. Web site: Kresge . Naomi . Khrennikov . Ilya . Ramli . David . El ciclo menstrual le genera millones a estas apps . El Financiero . 7 December 2022.
  21. Web site: Olsen . Emily . Period tracking app Flo releases anonymous mode and more digital health briefs . MobiHealthNews . 7 December 2022.
  22. Web site: Google acquires AIMatter, maker of the Fabby computer vision app. Ingrid. Lunden. techcrunch.com. 6 March 2018.
  23. News: Belarus signs law enabling set-up of cryptocurrency hubs. The National. 2017-12-26. en.
  24. Web site: Lovett . Laura . Serial digital health cofounding company Palta scores $100 million in Series B . MobiHealthNews . 7 December 2022 . en . 3 August 2021.
  25. Web site: Хабибрахимов . Альберт . Ментор MSQRD Юрий Гурский и Дмитрий Волков из SDVentures присоединились к Gagarin Capital . vc.ru . 7 December 2022 . 12 April 2018.
  26. Web site: Bhatla. Prabhjeet. 2021-08-03. Palta Closes $100 Mn Series B Funding Round Led By VNV Global. 2021-08-04. Entrepreneur. en.
  27. Book: Гурский . Юрий . Жвалевский . Андрей . Видеосамоучитель. Photoshop CS4 . 20 April 2009 . Издательский дом "Питер" . 978-5-498-07318-7 . 288 . ru.
  28. Book: Гурский . Юрий . Кондратьев . Геннадий . Фотоприколы с помощью Photoshop . 16 February 2010 . Издательский дом "Питер" . 978-5-498-07578-5 . 2010 . ru.
  29. Book: Гурский . Юрий . Photoshop CS2: Трюки и эффекты . 2005 . Питер® . 978-5-469-01045-6 . 512 . ru.
  30. Book: Гурский . Ю. . Жвалевский . А. . Завгородний . В. . Компьютерная графика: Photoshop CS5, CorelDRAW X5, Illustrator CS5 . 2011 . Piter . Moscow . 9785459005240 .
  31. Book: Анатольевич . Гурский Юрий . Цифровая фотография. Трюки и эффекты . 31 March 2010 . Издательский дом "Питер" . 978-5-498-07541-9 . 448 . 7 December 2022 . ru.
  32. https://probusiness.io/do_it/2780-top-40-belorusskikh-predprinimateley-do-40-let.html ТОП-40 белорусских предпринимателей до 40 лет
  33. http://itmentor.by/articles/top-50-person-v-belorusskom-it-2016-chast-1 Топ-50 персон в белорусском ИТ 2016
  34. http://b2binder.by/b2b-mag/162/top-40-belorusskih-biznesmenov-do-40-let Топ-40 белорусских бизнесменов до 40 лет
  35. https://bel.biz/news/biznes-novosti/yurij_gurskij_udostoen_zvaniya_mentor_goda Юрий Гурский удостоен звания «Ментор года»
  36. https://www.kv.by/content/yurii-gurskii-stal-predprinimatelem-goda Юрий Гурский стал "Предпринимателем года"

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