Original name:
Limassol, Cyprus
23.01.1983
Yuri Gurski is a native of the Republic of Belarus, entrepreneur, owner of Ideanomix publishing house, and head of Palta company.
In 2001, Yuri Gurski’s first book “Photoshop 6.0 Tricks and Effects” was published. In 2004, he was invited by “Piter” publishing house to “produce other books”.
In 2009, Yuri changed his activity to IT and became the head of Viaden Mobile (a department in Victor Prokopeni’s company Viaden Media). By early 2010, the partners had created several mobile apps and mobile games, including the gym app All-in Fitness, the pedometer All in Pedometer, and the yoga app Yoga.com. In 2012, Viaden Media was acquired by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.
In 2013, he started developing menstruation tracker Flo Health Inc. Flo attracted investments from PayPal founder Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, Flint Capital and millionaire Dmitry Volkov’s SDVentures venture funds. It is a women’s health platform based on artificial intelligence, with a monthly audience of 27 million active users and top positions in the Health & Fitness category in the App Store and Google Play.
In parallel with the development of Flo, in 2013 Gursky took over as CEO of Sport.com, a company that specialized in fitness apps. The company’s products won the Best of 2013 Apple Editors’ Choice award.
In 2014, Gursky became a mentor for the Maps.Me project, which was soon bought by Mail.ru Group. He later joined Mail.ru’s staff and by 2016 became the corporation’s vice president in charge of new products. On July 29, 2016, he left the company.
He was a mentor and invested in the MSQRD project (an app for video and photo selfies), which was acquired by Facebook on March 9, 2016.
In 2016, Gursky and Gubarev combined their assets in the venture capital firm Haxus. Haxus invested in another project by Yuri Melnicek, founder of Maps.me, related to the computer vision technology Aimatter. In 2017, this project was acquired by Google.
Later, non-core assets in Haxus were sold and the venture company was renamed Palta. Now Palta includes five projects – Flo, Prisma, Voir, fasting (interval fasting) app Simple, sleep app Loona and AR app for virtual sneaker fitting Wannaby. Gursky, Gubarev and Frolov own more than 90% of Palta, with the Palta team owning the rest.
In 2018 spring, he became part of the management team of Gagarin Capital, a fund specializing in investing in projects related to artificial intelligence.
In 2022, one of Gursky’s apps, photo editor Lensa AI, took the position of the most profitable iOS app in the Western market.
Since 2016, lives in Limassol, Cyprus. Has three children.