Earlier this month PDNA, a Ukrainian startup that develops projects in the field of symbiotic artificial intelligence, raised €200,000 from local venture fund Digital Future. The money will be used to develop the company’s first project, LifeTracker.io, which aims to “track all dimensions of your life automatically” with “automatic monitoring of mood changes and emotions.” …
The ‘1991 Open Data Incubator,’ Ukraine’s first incubator for Open Data projects, was launched last week by SocialBoost, a tech NGO, in partnership with the Ukrainian government, Western NIS Enterprise Fund and Microsoft Ukraine. The incubator aims to create socially-oriented services and applications based on government open data. Its website is available only in Ukrainian. The project is a contribution to improving the economy and …
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Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Persollo. Muru-D will receive a 4% stake in the company. The young entrepreneur told Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA that the project had …
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InnoTech Ukraine, a two-day forum on high-tech innovation in Ukraine, will hold its second edition on March 11-12, 2016 in Kyiv (Kiev). Highlighting the trends and prospects of innovative technologies in business and everyday life, the event will bring together experts and startups in robotics, 3D printing, smart technologies, education and healthcare.
Major cultural differences between Ukrainian and US or European clients may impact every aspect of a project cycle, from marketing, to sales, to fulfilment, to ongoing customer support — especially in the field of IT services. A workshop on “Intercultural Sales Cycles” covering all aspects of selling, fulfilling projects and customer service based on real examples …
The first stage of “Ukraine Is Looking for Startups,” a Ukrainain startup competition, brought together more than 1,000 attendees in Kyiv (Kiev) on December 19-20. The contest aims to provide 20 best native early-stage companies with an opportunity to meet international investors willing to invest 200,000 to 2 million hryvnias (approximately $8,500 and $85,000 respectively).
The Baltic tech and startup conference TechChill Baltics cordially invites Ukrainian startups and investors to join their peers from across Europe and the USA and share inspirational experience stories in Riga on Feb. 11, 2016. A house full of industry key-figures, entrepreneurs, investors and media will discuss business development, marketing and funding and other industry issues …
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CMS Group, a Ukrainian group of advertising agencies, has launched its own investment fund CMS Ventures. The company intends to invest $1 million into Ukrainian marketing startups having a potential for growth in such Russian-language countries as Russia and Kazakhstan. Formerly known as Tabasco Group, CMS Group was founded in 2006 by Alexander Gorlov. It gathers nine independent …
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IT Forum, a major industry event in Ukraine, held its fourth edition on November 29 in Kyiv (Kiev). The event brought together industry players from all over the country to highlight the key trends of 2015 and present their plans for 2016. Among the discussed topics were development, design and quality assurance, mobile technologies, outsourcing, …
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In a major consumer survey, ATKearney shows that the use of digital offers across Ukraine does not lag behind the US and Europe at all – Ukraine is even among the top countries investigated. “In distinction to many countries in Europe, Ukrainians appreciate quality although their ability to pay is hampered by the ongoing crisis,” …
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Depositphotos, an international stock photo platform with Ukrainian roots, announces a $5 million funding round led by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with the participation of TMT Investments. With this capital injection, the company aims to “become a leader in emerging markets while continuing to challenge the market leaders in Western countries.” The …
A technology entrepreneur with a rich background in Ukraine, Europe and the USA, Dmytro Shymkiv headed Microsoft Ukraine when he was appointed to the Presidential Administration in the months that followed the Maidan revolution. He shared with Ukraine Digital News his vision of Ukraine as a country of innovators and analyzes Ukraine’s first steps on the …
