Ukrainian HR tech startup Hirio has raised around €330,000 pre-seed funding in a round led by Pipedrive unicorn founders Ragnar Sass, Martin Henk and Martin Tajur. The deal was reported by EU-Startups, which did not provide further details. Hirio touts its product as “a smart toolbox that enables the design of digital processes and automates …
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ChoiZy, a Ukrainian career guidance platform founded in 2019, uses artificial intelligence to help school kids get a better understanding of what a given profession entails. ChoiZy claims more than 18,000 users registered on its Ukrainian platform, with 428 professions featured. The edtech startup has agreed a pre-seed investment with a Ukrainian business angel. Neither …
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Last week Ajax Systems, a Ukrainian company that sells smart security systems in 90 countries in the world, announced the acquisition of the engineering team of Concepter, a design and product development studio. The Concepter developers will become members of Ajax’s various R&D teams. “We’ve added the Concepter developers to the Ajax Systems team to …
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In late January, American-Ukrainian proptech startup Propertymate announced the completion of a $1 million seed round led by Pragmatech Ventures, a Ukrainian VC firm and startup studio. Founded in 2018 by Dan Hnatkovskyy and Sofia Vyshnevska, Propertymate is a New York-based startup that helps homebuyers search and compare new residential constructions. The platform aims to …
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Augmented Pixels, a Palo Alto-based, Ukrainian born developer of proprietary simultaneous localization and 3D mapping technologies , closed a $2 million funding round from ICU Ventures and VentureBot. The company says has raised a total of $7 million since 2015. It also announced it “completed the development of indoor navigation, earth-scale 3D mapping, and cloud …
Last week Sigma Software Group, a Swedish-Ukrainian company, announced the acquisition of the Ukrainian IT outsourcing company IdeaSoft, headquartered in Kharkiv (Kharkov). The company, which has an in-house team of 120 developers, will continue working under its existing brand within Sigma Software Group. The amount of the deal was not disclosed, but Yevgen Sysoyev, a …
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In mid-January, the Ukrainian Startup Fund (USF) announced the 20th edition of its Pitch Day winners. The jury selected five startups among 11 applying teams. Each of the winners received a $25,000 pre-seed investment. The winners winners were: OSBB Online, a comprehensive solution for the apartment buildings management and the comfortable life of their residents; …
Seven years after its creation by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Evgeniy Shestopal (CEO) and Ignat Tkhorovskiy (CTO), Poptop is making its way on the UK market. The entertainment booking service provider has just raised £440,000 from existing investors, DSW Ventures and NorthStar Ventures, as reported by UK Tech News. Poptop intends to use the funding to grow …
GitLab, a San Francisco-based open-source software startup founded in 2014 by Ukrainian entrepreneur Dmitry Zaporozhets, saw its valuation jump to $6 billion in November 2020 as it organized a $195 million secondary sale. The unicorn is now considering going public, as reported last week by the US media. Using the DevOps application software development methodology, …
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airSlate (formerly known as pdfFiller), a Boston-based publisher of business automation software, has closed a $40 million Series B round from three major US funds — General Catalyst, HighSage Ventures and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Touting itself as a “no-code innovation leader,” airSlate says it gives teams “the …
On December 29 Ciklum, a major software engineering company operating globally from its main office in Kyiv, announced a “significant strategic investment” from Recognize Partners, an American global technology investment firm. The details of the transaction were not disclosed. Recognize’s co-founder Francisco D’Souza and partners Rajeev Mehta and Josh Miller joined Ciklum’s board of directors. …
In late December the Ukrainian venture fund Genesis Investments invested $500,000 in a US mobile subscription startup with Ukrainian roots called Adapty. US accelerator 500 Startups and Russian-connected fund AdFirst.VC also took part in the round. The proceeds will be used to improve Adapty’s A/B testing features for paywalls and unit-economics, and to increase the …
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