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Malta, Central Region, Sliema

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501-1000

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+7 495 933-01-33

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1991

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Venture Capital

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Dec 29, 2020	SDVentures invested $1 million in chat-bot to fight depression Woebot	Social Discovery Ventures has invested $1 million in Woebot Health, which is developing the Woebot chat-bot, that provides psychological assistance to users. “The number of people with depression is growing, but there are no more psychologi...
Aug 5, 2020	Love for money: why invest in dating services	Dmitry Volkov, investor and founder of Dating Group, reported on the popularity of dating services and investing in them: “Dating is still a growing industry. With the penetration of the Internet in the world, people’s attitude towards onli...
Aug 5, 2020	Online dating services have shaped new people’s patterns of behaviour	“The desire to" swipe "has become the same habit as it used to be when reading newspapers in the morning.A person gets a boom of endorphins after a match, almost the same thing happens when you get a like on your post or some kind...
	This is the future of the world intellectual elite in IT	Dmitry Volkov about the organization of the international training camp for programmers in Europe in the interview for Kommersant. From September 27 to October 5 in Barcelona, a large training camp for programmers was held: students and s...
	SDVentures re-invested in the developer of an application for women Flo	SDVentures increased its investment in Flo Health Inc., developer of the Flo women's reproductive health monitoring platform, to $ 1.2 million. The total amount of funds attracted by Flo Health amounted to $ 7.5 million. Among other investo...
	SDV CEO Brings Jazz to Life at Charity Concert	On Saturday in Moscow, a very special performance, “Jazz without Limitations,” was held at the music and theater school simply known as “Class Center.” This school, originally started as an outlet for hyper-active but supremely creative c...
	The migration of billions	“Dmitry Volkov, co-owner of the international Internet holding SDVentures with offices on four continents, immediately built a business focused on the global market. He calls his industry a search for connections in the broad sense. To put ...
	3D MiniBuilders – Art as Innovation	SDV wants to help transform the concept of what is possible in artistic and industrial architecture. Using a fleet of purpose built robots, art collides with technology and 3D structures go from the computer screen to reality in front of ...
	Living On the Digital Edge of Innovation	The interview with Dmitry Volkov, the founder of SDVentures and an entrepreneur who has been hustling since he was in high school, now serving as a limited partner in over ten international investment projects, which include major Fortune-5...
	Contemporary art is trendy	Dmitry Volkov about his attitude to contemporary art and his personal experience as the contemporary art collector and philanthropist. Art has been in my life science very childhood. I danced in a musical on Broadway, I played in MTYUZ, par...
	Greenland Conference for Consciousness Studies	In our constant pursuit of ground-breaking ideas that can reshape society, SDV sponsored a very unique conference on a sailing ship off the coast of Greenland. Prominent philosophers in the field of human consciousness and free will exp...
	Genius Incubator: Who Wins the World Programming Championships	How Harbour Space University, an investment project in SDVentures potfolio, prepares future world champions in programming. The World Programming Championship affects the future more than the World Cup. How to train future champions and wha...
	Dmitry Volkov: “I am ready to be a medium for artists”	Dmitry Volkov explains the idea of the exhibition “This Is Not a Book: Dmitry Volkov Collection. The story about a man, his art and library ”, implemented by SDV Arts & Science Foundation together with MMOMA. “You know the famous work o...
	Dmitry Volkov's biography	© 2014 Social Discovery Ventures. All Rights Reserved.
	There was seen an invincible Russian spirit	The Russian drank champagne on Mont Blanc and struck the whole world. What does he live? Russian billionaire Dmitry Volkov, co-founder of the SDVentures investment holding, is well known in business circles, but not so long ago he became ev...
	Gumball 3000 Rally	The Gumball 3000 is an annual 3,000-mile (4,800 km) international motorcar rally which takes place on normal roads and streets. It was started in 1999 by Maximillion Cooper and his wife Julie Brangstrup. In 2014 the route started in Miami a...
	SDV Open Art Lecture Series	Expanding the boundaries of art, SDV regularly brings together prominent artists, musicians, collectors, and critics from Russia, Europe, and beyond, inviting them to present ideas, compositions, and installations that reflect on the pa...
	Top 50 Most Influential Figures in Russian Art of 2017	Dmitry Volkov was included in Top 50 Most Influential Figures in Russian Art of 2017. Collector, founder of the SDV Arts & Science Foundation, patron of the Garage Museum of Modern Art and a partner of the scholarship program of the mus...
	Top 50 Most Influential Figures in Russian Art of 2017	Dmitry Volkov was included in Top 50 Most Influential Figures in Russian Art of 2017. Collector, founder of the SDV Arts Science Foundation, patron of the Garage Museum of Modern Art and a partner of the scholarship program of the museum (...
	‘Transcendental Piano’ Festival Staged by Social Discovery Ventures this September	A new outdoor music exhibition will enable well-known Russian musicians, artists, and scientists to find new ways to explore the interaction between art and technology. A piano has been transformed into an object of technological art with t...
	Where and how to meet your digital double	In may 2019 Dmitry Volkov with Russian media artists Natalia Altufova and Yaroslav Kravtsov presented multimedia pop up project Faced2Faced within a special program of the 58th Venice Biennale. "FACED2FACED project mobile app scans the...
	"Avant-Garde" Book Launch Hosted by Moscow Museum of Modern Art	Moscow, Russia, April 20 – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA) hosted one of the most significant events of its anniversary year with a book launch from the preeminent Russian artists of our time. The talented trio of Vladimir Dubosarskiy,...
	Opening of International Contemporary Art Exhibition rus	SUPERCONDUCTION: Challenge of Art Technology A pop-up exhibition of contemporary technological art entitled SUPERCONDUCTION will be held on 6th and 7th November. It has been organized by international investment holding SDVentures, which...
	Opening of International Contemporary Art Exhibition rus	SUPERCONDUCTION: Challenge of Art & Technology A pop-up exhibition of contemporary technological art entitled SUPERCONDUCTION will be held on 6th and 7th November. It has been organized by international investment holding SDVentures, w...
	TapTap – Touch Communication Wristband	TapTap creates a critical bridge between our goals of bringing people together and a future where wekeep partners close and connected. These paired devices make geographical distances between people disappear, and open a world of possib...
	Darling, no need for blood anymore	Social Discovery Ventures is a Collision of Art & Technology. SDVentures collects objects of contemporary Russian Art and creates space for well-known artists, musicians, collectors and critics, inviting them to present ideas, compo...
	"I spend money not on things, but on the experience that makes me alive."	The rules of consumption from investor Dmitry Volkov. There are many stereotypes about how successful and wealthy people spend money: yachts, diamonds, expensive cars. It seems to us that many of these clichés are desperately outdated - mod...
	SDV presented the first album of “Contemporary Art” series in Saint Petersburg	On March, 21 Social Discovery Ventures held the presentation of Oleg Kulik’s art album, the first in “Contemporary Art” series. This remarkable event that brought together the enthusiasts of modern art, admirers of Kulik’s works and press, ...
	‘Aliens? - Yes!’ - A Closer Look At One The Most Incredible Art Installations At Burning Man 2017	'To design the future, you really need to stretch your imagination and Burning Man is a perfect environment for this', - Dmitry Volkov in the interview for Huffington Post. Tens of thousands of people gathered in excitement for this year’s ...
	It is more pleasant to trust assets to intelligent people. They live not only today	The interview of Dmitry Volkov with one of the leading magazines specialized on entrepreneurship. In the interview Dmitry Volkov described how he chooses projects for investment, why an innovator should be able to philosophize and why his o...
	Created by Russians service Grabr raised $ 1 million to enter new markets	Service for the delivery of goods Grabr received $ 1 million from SDVentures. "We came up with the idea to invest this winter. During the conversation with the American venture capital fund Foundation Capital, one of the Grabr investor...
	Yuri Gursky and Dmitry Volkov joined Gagarin Capital	Dmitry Volkov joined the management board of Gagarin Capital investment fund as General Partner of Gagarin Capital investment. "SDVentures is interested in investments into artificial intelligence technologies, which Gagarin Capital sp...
	“Colossus” Film Project	One of our efforts to foster inventive projects and build relationships with the broader creative community, this is the story of a film-maker who sets out to make a guerilla-style documentary about a fake rock band in Russia. This part d...
	Buddhism 2.0 and the tablet of compassion	Philosopher and businessman Dmitry Volkov - about his impressions from the meeting with the head of Tibetan Buddhists. Once again coming to India as part of a delegation of Russian scientists, I ask myself: why does modern science need Budd...
	CES 2015 – Wedding Art with Technology	SDV will introduce itself to the world at the Consumer Electronics Show, highlighting the creative possibilities inherent in its position as a company that bridges the worlds of art and technology. Inside an elegant wedding chapel on the ...
	SDV Donates to Women for Women International	Social Discovery Ventures Starts the Season of Giving With a Donation to Help Prevent Violence Against Women NEW YORK, DATE - Social Discovery Ventures (SDV) is proud to announce a new partnership with Women for Women International (WfWI...
	Dating.com Group acquires Dil Mil app for South Asian expats	Dating.com Group, an investment of SDVentures, bought Dil Mil, a San Francisco dating app for emigrants from India and other South Asia countries. The transaction cost amounted to 50 million. The portfolio of Dating.com Group includes numer...
	DMITRY VOLKOV: “I like to be moving in all dimensions” PHILOSOPHY MODERN ART MUSIC SPORTS NORD rus	An entrepreneur, a successful businessman, a co-director of Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies, a philosopher and an organizer of philosophical forums, collector and connoisseur of modern pictorial art, a participant and an organizer o...
	Дмитрий Волков: «Мне нравится перемещаться во всех измерениях» ФИЛОСОФИЯ СОВРЕМЕННОЕ ИСКУССТВО МУЗЫКА СПОРТ НОРД eng	Предприниматель, успешный бизнесмен, со-директор московского центра исследования сознания, философ и организатор философских форумов, коллекционер и ценитель современной живописи, участник и организатор выставок современного искусства, музы...
	Darling, no need for blood anymore	Social Discovery Ventures is a Collision of Art Technology. SDVentures collects objects of contemporary Russian Art and creates space for well-known artists, musicians, collectors and critics, inviting them to present ideas, compositio...

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May 17, 2022	Corporate Venture Capital: Using Global Markets To Your Advantage	Dating Group CIO Bill Alena is a RevOps and CVC executive with more than 20 years of experience in digital media and online dating.
Feb 23, 2022	Social Discovery Ventures Invests $10M Across Three Funds	Social Discovery Ventures, an international holding company and investment fund, has invested nearly $10m across three funds. These include: New Enterprise Associates’ NEA 18 Venture Growth Equity, which was announced late last year. Targ...
Oct 21, 2019	SDVentures Дмитрия Волкова продал патенты и ПО Dating.com и ещё нескольких сервисов за $215 млн и долю в новой компании Статьи редакции	Покупателем стала компания SOL Holdings, которая раньше управляла проектами за часть дохода. 2 2 комментария Форум 3365 просмотров Венчурный фонд с российскими корнями SDVentures и управляющая компания SOL Holdings Аллы Губенко договорились...
Dec 19, 2018	SDVentures Joints Series A Round in Flo Health	SDVentures, an international venture fund specializing in investments into artificial intelligence technology startups, has expanded its portfolio with a direct investment into fast growing FemTech start-up Flo Health. SDVentures has extend...
Dec 19, 2018	SDVentures Joints Series A Round in Flo Health	SDVentures, an international venture fund specializing in investments into artificial intelligence technology startups, has expanded its portfolio with a direct investment into fast growing FemTech start-up Flo Health. SDVentures has extend...
Jun 5, 2018	Биотехнологии, майнинг и «привычная» разработка. Чем занимаются новые резиденты ПВТ (полный список) Читайте также: Второй рекорд за полгода: в ПВТ приняли ещё 56 компаний...	Отдел новостей 5 июня 2018, 14:55 Биотехнологии, майнинг и «привычная» разработка. Чем занимаются новые резиденты ПВТ (полный список) Оставить комментарий...
Apr 27, 2017	BeLive.tv Receives Investment from Social Discovery Ventures	BeLive.tv, a live broadcast platform, received an investment from Social Discovery Ventures. The amount of the deal, the headquarters and the people behind the company were not disclosed. BeLive.tv is a platform that allows users to create ...
Jun 21, 2016	Layer Receives Investment from Social Discovery Ventures	Layer, a San Francisco, CA-based company delivering open layer architecture for Internet communications, received an investment from Social Discovery Ventures (SDV). The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Ron Palmeri, Founder &...
Jun 9, 2016	Health & Fitness Community PumpUp Receives Investment from Social Discovery Ventures	PumpUp Inc., a Toronto, Canada-based health and fitness community, received an investment from Social Discovery Ventures (SDV). The amount of the deal was not disclosed. Led by Founder & CEO Garrett Gottlieb and co-founder & preside...
Dec 17, 2015	Сотрудников ищут Topface, Mera, «Таксилёт», Demis Group	Редакция vc.ru продолжает публиковать по четвергам вакансии компаний, которые ищут сотрудников. Менеджер по B2B-продажам и старший full-stack разработчик ASP.NET — Linguatrip, Санкт-Петербург О компании: Linguatrip — это платформа, благодар...
Jun 22, 2015	Thrill Group Receives Investment from Social Discovery Ventures	Thrill Group, an Indian provider of online dating services, received an investment from Social Discovery Ventures. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The company intends to use the funds to further develop its online activity. Thrill...
Jun 17, 2015	LinguaLeo Receives Financing	LinguaLeo, a market leader in online English language learning in Russia and CIS, received a financing of undisclosed amount. Backers included the new strategic investor Social Discovery Ventures (SD Ventures) with participation from Runa C...
Mar 16, 2015	Streetlife Raises Funding from Social Discovery Ventures	Streetlife, a London, UK-based social network for local communities, raised a funding round from Social Discovery Ventures. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations. It is hir...
Mar 4, 2015	Shocase Raises Funding from Social Discovery Ventures	Shocase, a San Francisco, CA-based vertical social network for marketing professionals,raised funding from Social Discovery Ventures. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The company will use the funds to expand operations. Led by Ron ...

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When was Social Discovery Ventures founded?

Social Discovery Ventures was founded in 1991.

How many startups has Social Discovery Ventures invested in?

Social Discovery Ventures has 1 portfolio company on Parsers VC.

What is the latest news about Social Discovery Ventures?

Parsers VC has 41 news items about Social Discovery Ventures, among them “SDVentures invested $1 million in chat-bot to fight depression Woebot” (Dec 29, 2020) and “Love for money: why invest in dating services” (Aug 5, 2020).

What has the press written about Social Discovery Ventures?

Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning Social Discovery Ventures, among them “Corporate Venture Capital: Using Global Markets To Your Advantage” (May 17, 2022) and “Social Discovery Ventures Invests $10M Across Three Funds” (Feb 23, 2022).

Is Social Discovery Ventures still active?

Yes, Social Discovery Ventures is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Aug 25, 2026.