Clement Ivanov was born on March 6, 1990, in Tartu, Estonia, and competes under the handle Puppey. He is widely credited as one of the most respected drafters and in-game leaders in Dota history, a reputation built over more than fifteen years in the professional scene rather than any single result. Wikipedia’s entry on Puppey documents his birth details and describes him as one of the most decorated captains in the game’s history.

Ivanov started competing in the original DotA mod around 2007, moving through amateur and semi-professional rosters including Xero Skill, KingSurf.International, Nirvana.International, and Team.GG before joining Natus Vincere in 2010. Prize pools during this period were tiny compared to modern Dota 2, so HMW treats these years as reputation building rather than wealth building. Esports Earnings’ team history for Puppey shows the Natus Vincere move and the string of organizations that preceded it.

Puppey was part of the Natus Vincere roster that won the first International in 2011, taking home a then-record $1 million grand prize split among the team, and he assumed the captain’s role after Ivan “ArtStyle” Antonov departed later that year. Under his captaincy Na’Vi reached the podium in the large majority of tournaments it entered between 2011 and 2013, including grand final appearances at TI2 and TI3 that both ended in narrow defeats. Wikipedia’s career summary outlines the TI1 win and the Na’Vi podium run that followed.

After leaving Na’Vi in August 2014, Puppey co-founded Team Secret and built the roster that won the Shanghai Major in 2016, later becoming, per Wikipedia, the first player to win five official Dota 2 Majors. His personal prize shares in the following years included $229,789.60 for a fifth to sixth place finish at TI2018, $411,960.80 for fourth at TI2019, $720,320 for third at TI2021, and $492,206.60 for second at TI2022. Esports Earnings’ full profile puts his career total at $4,345,228.38 from 165 tournaments, ranking him seventeenth among all Dota 2 players worldwide and first in Estonia.

Puppey is consistently described by esports outlets and Liquipedia’s community-maintained database as among the most respected captains the game has produced, valued as much for drafting decisions as for mechanical play, and as one of the few players to appear at nearly every International across more than a decade. Liquipedia’s Puppey page catalogues that competitive longevity in detail. In August 2025 he briefly stood in for the South American team Edge at PGL Wallachia Season 5, a notable move given that he had represented only Na’Vi and Team Secret since 2011, as Esports.gg reported at the time.

Puppey does not appear to hold the kind of major personal endorsement deals that top League of Legends or Counter-Strike players carry. Documented sponsorship activity centers on Team Secret’s organizational partners, which the team’s own site lists as including Secretlab, Pulsar, Predator/Acer, and a 2023 partnership with Stake.com and Kick, according to Team Secret’s official site. As a co-owner rather than a purely contracted player, a share of that sponsorship revenue plausibly reaches Puppey through the company, though the exact split is not disclosed. He also streams on Twitch under the handle Puppery, but his following of roughly 19,600 followers with average viewership in the low hundreds, per TwitchTracker’s channel data, is modest next to top streamers and unlikely to represent a significant income line.

Puppey co-founded Team Secret in 2014 and has described himself publicly as an owner of the organization. When Team Secret brought in a dedicated CEO in 2017 to handle day-to-day operations, Puppey stated, “Ultimately, as an owner of Secret I am responsible for all aspects of running the company,” as reported by MCV/Develop. That equity stake sits outside a pure player-salary model, though Team Secret has never published a company valuation, so HMW treats it as a real but unquantified asset. After eleven years with the organization, Puppey stepped back from active competitive play and joined PARIVISION as a coach in late 2025 and early 2026, his first coaching role after nearly two decades as a player, a transition GosuGamers covered in detail, including the note that he remained listed in an ownership or director capacity at Secret afterward.

No published report HMW could locate documents personal real estate, vehicles, or other major individual assets belonging to Puppey. The most detailed public records of his career, Esports Earnings and Liquipedia, catalogue tournament results, team history, and prize money in granular detail but stop short of personal holdings; Esports Earnings’ profile page illustrates that scope, tracking earnings by year, league, and team without any property or asset data. Because that gap is real rather than a reporting oversight on HMW’s part, no property line is added to the estimate, and the uncertainty is reflected directly in the final range instead.