Last month CallPage, a Polish startup with Ukrainian roots, attracted $500,000 from Polish venture fund bValue and a few individual investors. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. CallPage helps commercial sites convert page views into inbound sales calls through immediate callback to the real phone numbers. Thus, the startup claims that its clients may …
Roopor, a project developed by Ukrainian digital marketing agency Yarche.ua, is among the 90 winners out of 6,000 applicants to Publicis90. This global innovation contest was organized in late June by the French advertising and PR giant. The startup was the only awarded project coming from Central and Eastern Europe.
On June 30 Kyiv (Kiev), the Ukrainian capital, was added to the map of Uber’s global operations, joining a group of some 450 cities. City mayor Vitali Klitschko was the first client of the service. As reported by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA, the service was presented officially by Arkadiy Veshebenyuk, General Manager at Uber Ukraine, …
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Ukrainian startup Taplend allows you to “get money transfers from your friends on your PayPal account with no interest or fee at all” or to “borrow it from financial institutions on your bank account or card through the iOS application in just few taps.” According to the Ukrainian high tech blog AIN.UA, the startup will …
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A new center for startup entrepreneurship, christened ‘California in Ukraine,’ was launched last week by California-based business angel Igor Shoifot in Kyiv (Kiev). The initiative will be run jointly with the Science Park of Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University and the Maksymovych Scientific Library.
Luciding, a Ukrainian startup whose headband device “provides lucid dreams every night,” has received $10,000 in investment from iQSpace, a business incubator based in Odessa, southern Ukraine, as reported earlier this month by AIN.UA. Another $10,000 will be injected under the condition that the device obtain a European certification and get its first 100 clients.
Last week eight Ukrainian startups were distinguished in the 8th edition of the Ukrainian Startup Rating, a ranking presented by prominent industry figure Denis Dovgopoliy at the iForum conference in Kyiv (Kiev). The ranking was open to IT startups with a Ukrainian founder or team member with less than three years of existence and an annual turnover not exceeding $1 million.
Earlier this month, the six most influential figures of the Ukrainian venture and startup scene in 2015 were named at iForum, a major industry event held in Kyiv (Kiev). This ranking was made by a board of 30 experts. While Yevgen Sysoyev, Andrey Kolodyuk, Nataliia Berezovska, Victor Shaburov and Illia Kenigshtein had already been featured in such rankings …
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A Ukrainian startup has created a beautiful jewelry piece to “wrap and share your thoughts, infinitely collect your dreams, and write your own history.” Christened Senstone, this AI-powered pendant will record your voice and allow you to create to-do-lists and notes, posts and goals “at the speed of sound.”
Earlier this month, Ukrainian energy-management startup Ecoisme was selected to participate in the Virgin Media Accelerator program, an initiative of Richard Branson in partnership with US incubator TechStars and Liberty Global Ventures. Ecoisme is the only startup from the region to be chosen among other applicants from 71 countries, as reported by Ukrainian tech blog …
Established in 2002 in Poland, Plagiat is entering Ukrainian market. The company claims to have installed its software in more than 250 universities of eight countries so far, including Poland and Romania, as reported by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. Ukraine has been chosen as the next step of Plagiat’s international expansion as Ukraine and Poland …
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After Uber started enrolling drivers in Ukraine earlier this month, Kyiv (Kiev) taxi drivers have begun voicing their concerns. Last week, as reported by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA. they held a press conference under the slogan “The Klitschko-Uber collusion: A taxi at the price of a passenger’s life?” (Vitalii Klitschko is the mayor of Kyiv). …
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