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Ten IT companies operating in Ukraine ranked among world’s top IT service providers

Earlier this week industry association IAOP released the 11th edition of its Global Outsourcing 100, the annual listing of the world’s top outsourcing service providers. Four Ukrainian IT firms and six international IT companies with their R&D centers located in Ukraine got listed. The Global Outsourcing 100 is compiled from applications received and evaluated by independent …

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Economy ministry announces new measures to support Ukraine’s IT export

In late January, industry representatives led by the IT Ukraine association and officials from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade met to discuss new opportunities and prospects for IT service exports. “We believe that IT service exports represent an important sector of the Ukrainian economy, and that they should develop further with extensive governmental support,” stated Deputy Minister …

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New incubator to support Open Data projects amid weak social demand

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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16-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur launches fintech startup in Australia

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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Californian investor wants to “help Ukrainain startups attract investors from all over the world”

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).

Ukrainian advertising agency group to invest $1 million in marketing startups

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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AliExpress resumes deliveries to Crimea

AliExpress, the B2C subsidiary of Alibaba which last year became the number one online marketplace in Russia, has resumed delivery to Crimea. Just months ago, the Chinese platform had stopped serving the disputed peninsula. It was assumed that Alibaba was complying with western sanctions, which bar companies from working in this peninsula. The news was announced earlier this month …

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Industry players see startup ecosystem and mobile technologies grow fast in 2016

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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PioneersKyiv: App CRM startup walks away with first prize, industry experts discuss startup risks and post-war entrepreneurship

On November 28 Global Pioneers, a major European startup and investor conference series, held its PioneersKyiv edition, following a festival which took place in summer. The winner of the PioneersKiyv startup contest was Roman Zadyrako. His startup Tooltip.io has developed a solution to analyze app user behavior and send personalized in-app messages. Zadyrako will participate …

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Ukrainian leaf measurement startup ranked among “world’s 20 hottest startups”

Kyiv (Kiev)-based startup Petiole, whose mobile technology can perform plant leaf area measurements, has been ranked in the top 20 of the world’s hottest startups in 2015 by CNBC. The plant leaf area is measured in less than one second. “This is 1,000 times faster than using graph paper and 100 times faster than scanning and processing …

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Education ministry teams up with Google to launch platform for Ukrainian inventors

The Institute of Education Content Modernization, a branch of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, has joined forces with Google Ukraine to develop an online platform dedicated to Ukrainian inventors. Christened “Ideas that change the world,” the platform was presented earlier this month at Google Day Ukraine 2015. Allowing anyone to suggest a bright idea and find …

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