# Sergiy Milman

> Sergiy Milman is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of YouControl, the parent company behind YC World. After a career in logistics and distribution, he built tools that organise public records for business checks and investigations. His work combines paid business services with access for journalists and civic organisations, and he received EY Ukraine’s Transparency Impact award in 2025.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO of YouControl; founder of YC World
- **Organizations:** YouControl, YC World, SKS, LKO
- **Nationality:** Ukrainian
- **Education:** Master’s degree in Economics, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman
- **Known for:** Founded YouControl and developed it into a business intelligence service using public records., Founded the international relationship-analysis platform now called YC World., Received EY Ukraine’s Transparency Impact category award in April 2025.

## Career timeline

- **1997-2002** — Studied at Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman.
- **2005-2013** — Executive Director at LKO, according to his professional biography.
- **2008-2013** — Development Director and Managing Partner at SKS, according to his professional biography.
- **2013** — First attempt to develop YouControl failed to deliver the expected result; Milman later described restarting with a different team.
- **2014** — Founded the legal company YouControl on 22 September.
- **2017** — Security Service searches of YouControl offices and employee homes prompted a public dispute over the company’s use of open data.
- **2019** — Reported a self-financing company of around 50 employees in the Productive Roman interview.
- **2022** — Launched RuAssets in April; the international platform later became YC World.
- **2025** — Won the Transparency Impact category in EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition in Ukraine.

## Achievements

- Founded YouControl and developed it into a business intelligence service using public records.
- Founded the international relationship-analysis platform now called YC World.
- Received EY Ukraine’s Transparency Impact category award in April 2025.
- YouScore won $10,000 in the Open Banking Lab programme, as Milman reported in 2019.
- Provided investigative access and training for journalists and civic activists.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Observed on the current YC World website: company-reported coverage of 85 countries, 373 data sources and more than 264 million connections; these are database coverage figures.
- **2026-07** — A 14 July SPEKA feature summarised his FEDORIV VLOG interview on YouControl’s origins and British/European expansion plans.
- **2025-05** — Discussed YC World with chief product officer Mykhailo Horobtsov in a DOU feature, covering ownership research, users and internal funding.
- **2025-04** — Won the Transparency Impact category in EY Ukraine’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergimilman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sergi.milman

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Last updated: 2026-10-14