Yuri Gurski

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. In 2012, Viaden Mobile was acquired by Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi.

In 2013, Gurski took over as CEO of Sport.com, which specialized in fitness apps. Under his leadership, the company became a resident of the Belarus High Technologies Park and developed several popular mobile applications for sports and fitness. He left the project in 2014.

In 2014, he became a mentor of the Maps.me project. During Gurski's two-year tenure, the project grew into a widely used offline mobile map for travelers, reaching over 90 million installations worldwide. Later that year, it was acquired by Mail.ru Group and integrated into its My.com brand.

Gurski also joined Mail.ru in November 2014. In 2016, he held the position of Vice President of new product development. He left Mail.ru Group on 29 July 2016. Representatives stated a conflict of interest as the reason, which was later resolved.

He was a mentor and investor of the MSQRD project, acquired by Facebook on 9 March 2016.

Gurski co-founded Palta, which in 2015 created the Flo, an AI-powered women’s health platform. In October 2018, Palta received a $200 million valuation. In subsequent years, Flo reached a valuation exceeding $1 billion, attaining unicorn status. As of 2021, it had more than 2.4 million active subscribers and employed over 600 people across its offices in London, Munich, Limassol, Vilnius, and Warsaw.

In July 2024, Flo Health raised over $200 million in a Series C funding round, reaching a valuation of over $1 billion. As of 2024, the app had approximately 70 million monthly active users and around 5 million paid subscribers worldwide. The company has expanded into broader health areas including fertility, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause.

In addition to Flo, Palta has developed a portfolio of health and wellness applications including Simple (nutrition and intermittent fasting) and Zing Coach, an AI-based fitness platform. It also operates Lensa, a neural network based photo editing app, which gained global popularity in 2022.

Gurski has also been active as an investor and mentor in the technology sector, supporting startups in artificial intelligence, mobile applications, and digital health.

In spring 2018, Gurski cooperated with Gagarin Capital, a venture capital firm focused on AI-driven projects, including Prisma.

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