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Russo-Ukrainian e-learning platform Coursmos raises $600,000

February 5, 2015

Coursmos, an online learning startup with Russian and Ukrainian origins, has received $600,000 in seed investment in a deal led by Altera Capital Group with participation from Imperious Group. Coursmos has now raised a total of $1.2 million in investment since its launch in March 2014. An alum of Kyiv (Kyiv)-based tech incubator Happy Farm, the startup is now headquartered …

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Oleksii Vitchenko launches seed-stage startup investment fund

September 15, 2014

Ukrainian entrepreneur Oleksii Vitchenko has launched Digital Future, a new investment company which analyses the Ukrainian startup landscape, seeks out the best new projects and takes them to the global market. Digital Future invests in startups at various stages of development, focusing on e-commerce, digital marketing and mobile technology. The company usually looks to invest from …

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Russian subsidiary of Poland’s Asseco launches division in Crimea to serve local banking sector

August 28, 2014

Banking and finance software developer R-Style Softlab, based in Russia and owned by Polish company Asseco, is opening a new division in Crimea. Its office will be in Sevastopol. The department will specialise in software development for the banking sector, particularly banks located within Crimea and nearby regions. The company expects that by the end …

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Ukraine could block Russian “propaganda websites”

August 22, 2014

The Ukrainian authorities may block Russian web resources which they believe to be responsible for propaganda, as well as those linked to the Donbass insurgency. “At the moment we are working at both the legal and technical level in order to follow the examples of Israel, America and China, closing down sites which pose a …

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Ukrainian VC ranks the country’s best startups

June 17, 2014

It’s a year since top Ukrainian venture capitalist Yevgeny Sysoyev produced his first overview of Ukraine’s top-100 startups. A lot has changed since then, and many more people are now familiar with the complicated geography, politics and economics of his country. The Ukrainian startup ecosystem is still comparatively small, with a maximum valuation of just $2.5 billion. However, despite its …

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French car-sharing service BlaBlaCar expands to Ukraine and Russia

February 5, 2014

The French search engine for car-sharing BlaBlaCar has taken over the Ukrainian site Podorozhniki, in order to enter the Russian and Ukrainian market. The cost of the deal has not been disclosed, as was the case with the expansion in Italy and Spain, but the Podorozhniki site is no longer available and all of its …

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