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Established in 2014, Ukraine Digital News (UADN.NET) is the first English language international information platform dedicated to the Ukrainian digital and IT industries. As a free resource, it provides news, market data, business analysis and updates pertaining to the Internet, e-commerce, IT services, software development, hardware and other innovation in the country as well as to related investment activity and the legal environment. UADN also conducts or participates in research activities that provide local and international audiences with in-depth analysis and quality data on these industries. UADN is published by Belgian company International Digital News.

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Ukrainian ride-hailing major Uklon launches international franchise

Last week Ukrainian ride-hailing major Uklon launched an international franchise offer.  The company is also open to joint-venture agreements. Among the first target countries are the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, according to Ukrainian tech blog AIN. In a Facebook post Uklon co-founder Serhiy Smus unveiled how the war affected the company: “When we were planning to …

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EBRD and Greencubator resume greentech grant program for Ukrainian companies

In spite of the war, Greencubator, a Ukrainian non-profit for sustainable entrepreneurship, and the EBRD, have restarted their Climate Innovation Vouchers program. It targets innovative SMBs develop or implement technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase energy efficiency and prevent climate change.  “The brave actions of the Ukrainian army make it possible to restart activities within the project,” Kateryna Zalievska, Head of …

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12 funds that support Ukrainian startups in wartime

From non profit initiatives (ACLab, Free Ukraine Foundation, Google) to Ukraine-connected venture firms, a variety of funding sources are available for Ukrainian startup entrepreneurs in these difficult times. The online industry portal TechUkraine has listed them.

Report: How Ukraine’s tech companies adapt to war time after breaking records in funding in 2021

AVentures Capital, one of Ukraine’s top venture firms, has just released a new edition of its Dealbook of Ukraine. Each year, this publication offers an overview of the deals and trends involving Ukrainian and Ukrainian-founded tech companies. A “record high VC and PE volume” is reported for 2021, with more than $830 million invested in …

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How a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur created a new startup from a Russian prison

Serge Faguet, a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur who studied at Stanford and co-founded Russian booking service Ostrovok in the early 2010s, made a public confession last week in a Medium post.  In the summer of last year, a Russian customs agent at the Moscow airport found five tabs of acid — in addition to a US-physician-prescribed capsule …

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Ukrainian activists urge users of Russian software to replace them with Ukrainian analogs

“By paying for Russian software products, you sponsor Russian aggression toward Ukraine. Every missile that destroys the Ukrainians’ homes and takes away thousands of civilians’ lives is purchased for the taxes from the profit of Russian companies, including software developers,” says a group of Ukrainian volunteers and experts from Netpeak, a Ukrainian digital marketing agency. …

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European angel investors have bussed more than 7,500 Ukrainians to safety

Brooks Newmark, an angel investor in the U.K. and former senior partner at Apollo Global Management, was in Kharkiv, Ukraine, yesterday—where he has been trying to evacuate approximately 180 disabled children and their caregivers to safety. “In a quiet garden listening to bombs dropping in the distance,” he told me via email, shortly before our second …

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US print-on-demand marketplace aims to help Ukrainians create new source of revenue

Printify, a California-based company connecting online merchants to print-on-demand and dropshipping providers, has launched a special program in support of Ukrainians.    “The unsettling events in Ukraine have had a severe impact on Ukrainian society, with millions of nationals being left without shelter, food and income while trying to rebuild their lives,” acknowledges the Californian company, which …

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New campaign aims to help Ukrainian startups with Silicon Valley-style launch

When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, 33-year-old Andrey Klen — the co-founder of design firm O0 and co-founder and CMO of internet-connected laser-toy maker Petcube — had been preparing both his staff for about three weeks: “The threat was imminent. We needed to have individual relocation plans in place.” Along with his co-founder of both companies, 34-year-old Alex …

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AeroVironment donates over 100 unmanned aircraft systems to Ukrainian army

Arlington, Va. — AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, today announced it will donate more than 100 Quantix™ Recon unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and operational training services to the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and territorial forces amid the ongoing war against Russia. The donation was presented to the Ambassador and the Defence Attaché at the …

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SAP “supports Ukraine” but has “no magical button” to make Russian software licenses disappear

SAP announced today “further steps” to “support Ukraine” and “plan Russia exit.”  As announced in late March, the global enterprise software giant is in the process of shutting down its cloud services in Russia. As part of this process, “we have given non-sanctioned companies in Russia the choice to have their data deleted, sent to them, or migrated …

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