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.
In 2010, he obtained an Executive MBA degree from the IPM Business School under the Kozminski University program (Warsaw, Poland).
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.
[15][4][16] He was a mentor and investor of the MSQRD project (video and photo selfie app), acquired by Facebook on 9 March 2016.
[6] 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.
[6][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] 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.