31 Facts About Leonid Boguslavsky

Leonid Boguslavsky was named the Internet investor of the year and the most successful investor of the year.

Leonid Boguslavsky is the founder of RTP Global, a venture capital firm with offices in New York, London, Paris, Bangalore and Dubai.

Leonid Boguslavsky was one of the first investors in companies such as Datadog or Delivery Hero.

Leonid Boguslavsky is widely considered one of the most successful technology investors.

Leonid Boguslavsky was born into the family of writer Zoya Boguslavskaya and scientist-engineer Boris Kagan; he was the stepson of poet Andrei Voznesensky.

In 1973 under the rector Fyodor Kochnev, Boguslavsky graduated from the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineering, where his father Boris Kagan taught, majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics.

In 1985, together with a team of developers from the Academy of Science of Moldova, Leonid Boguslavsky launched a project to create a software system to connect IBM mainframes with Digital minicomputers and personal computers into an integrated computer network.

In 1989, Leonid Boguslavsky started to work in a Soviet Italian joint venture focused on computer network projects in Czechoslovakia.

Leonid Boguslavsky became deputy director and shareholder of the company.

In 1990, Leonid Boguslavsky was offered by Oracle Corporation to distribute Oracle software products in the USSR and he concluded the exclusive distribution agreement with Oracle for the territory of the USSR.

In 1994, LVS became so dominant as the producer of electronic voting machine equipment and its software that by 1997 PricewaterhouseCoopers chose LVS and its software and equipment as system integrator with Leonid Boguslavsky becoming a senior partner and receiving $10 million from Pricewaterhouse's buyout of LVS.

In late 1996 Leonid Boguslavsky sold LVS to PricewaterhouseCoopers and then became a Managing Partner at PwC, in charge of its Management Consulting Services practice in Russia in early 1997.

In December 1999, Leonid Boguslavsky met investment bankers Charles Ryan, Michael Calvey and David Mixer, who were planning to set up an Internet investment company at that time.

Leonid Boguslavsky invested a substantial amount of the total holdings and became chairman of the board of directors.

Leonid Boguslavsky left PwC in 2001 and became CEO and chairman of the board of directors of ru-Net Holdings.

Leonid Boguslavsky left the board of directors in Yandex in 2008 as he started investing in companies that could potentially create a conflict of interest with Yandex.

Leonid Boguslavsky sold a small portion of his shares during the IPO.

Leonid Boguslavsky partly used the funds to invest in the purchase of new shares in Ozon, leading to the largest investment in an Internet company in Russian history.

In 2011 Leonid Boguslavsky set up a US-based subsidiary, the venture capital company - ru-Net Technology Partners, opening a New York office.

In India, Leonid Boguslavsky invested in Practo, Faasos, Snapdeal and other companies.

In 2016, Leonid Boguslavsky invested in European internet company Urban Sport Club, that sells passes to sport and fitness clubs.

Leonid Boguslavsky co-founded the first professional international league in triathlon - Super League Triathlon.

Leonid Boguslavsky's partners are the triathlon athlete Chris McCormack and Michael D'Hulst.

Leonid Boguslavsky received an investment return of 400 or 500 times from his original stake of $11 million in 2012 with his American company Datadog after its IPO which has a capitalization of $32 billion at the end of 2020, generating approximately $5 billion in profit.

In 2020, Leonid Boguslavsky set up RTP Global third fund of $650 million.

Leonid Boguslavsky is not and has not been a tax resident in Russia since February 2015.

Leonid Boguslavsky's hobbies include kitesurfing, skiing, triathlon, bicycle racing and extreme travelling.

Leonid Boguslavsky managed to get his first podium spot after only six months of training.

Leonid Boguslavsky is the founder of Super League Triathlon, having established it in 2017 and has stakes in Zwift which provides equipment for virtual running and virtual cycling.

In 2016, Leonid Boguslavsky created the Andrei Voznesensky Center of Culture.

Leonid Boguslavsky released a statement in February 2022 calling "for an immediate end to the catastrophic and unjustified war in Ukraine", adding that he "could not remain silent seeing what is happening in Ukraine".