Forbes Included Two Belarusians On Its List Of The Richest Immigrants In The U.S.
- 21.08.2026, 20:34
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The list includes Denis Yarats and Igor Tulchinsky.
The American magazine Forbes has updated its ranking of the wealthiest immigrants living in the U.S. This year, the list includes 144 people, with a combined net worth estimated at $2.2 trillion. By comparison, a year earlier the list included 125 people with a combined net worth of $1.3 trillion, according to Office Life.
Among this year’s list are two Belarusians: Denis Yarats, co-founder and CTO of the AI startup Perplexity , and Igor Tulchinsky, founder of the investment fund WorldQuant .
Denis Yarats ranked 97th. Forbes estimated his net worth at $2.1 billion.
Yarats was born in Gomel and graduated from Belarusian State University, where he studied mathematics and computer science. In 2008, he advanced to the European finals of the Google Code Jam competition, which took place in Zurich. He later worked as an engineer at Microsoft, where he worked on the Bing search engine and also contributed to the development of the Quora service. Before founding Perplexity, he was a research scientist at Facebook AI Research.
In 2022, Yarats, along with two American partners, founded Perplexity—a company that is developing an alternative to traditional search engines. The startup secured its first round of funding within a year of its founding. According to Forbes, the company’s valuation reached $20 billion in 2025. Its investors include Jeff Bezos and Cristiano Ronaldo.
The second Belarusian on the list is Igor Tulchinsky. He ranked 113th, and his net worth is estimated at $1.7 billion.
Tulchinsky was born in Belarus in 1966 and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1977. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin and later graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s business school.
Tulchinsky began his career at AT&T, then worked at Interactive Brokers, and later joined the Millennium hedge fund, founded by billionaire Izzy Englander.
In 2007, he founded the investment fund WorldQuant. The company currently manages approximately $17 billion in assets, including $7 billion as an advisor to the Millennium hedge fund.
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