Volodymyr Usov, a founder and chief executive officer at Odessa-based startup Kwambio that provides an online platform for easy 3D printing, says that everyone will have such a printer at home in the near future. The main problem with 3D printing now, however, is it is too complicated for many people. The first time Usov discovered a 3D printer was at the IDCEE …
War means weapons. And for robotics lab at the Step IT Academy in Kyiv, this means using plastic (not ink) to create drones from special printers for use by the Ukrainian army. Dmytro Franchuk, deputy head of the robotics lab and its key drone engineer, says production is based on 3D printers that use up …
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Here’s a timely innovation for Ukraine at war: applications that help people facing life-threatening injuries. Win Interactive, a Ukrainian game developer, created a mobile application that provides first medical aid instructions – Domedychna Dopomoha (pre-medical aid). The app has six tabs that provide brief explanations on how to correctly transport wounded persons, stop bleeding, apply bandages, restart …
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Despite Ukraine’s low wages, the nation – just like many more affluent ones in the West – outsources hardware production to China. The most famous ones – Petcube, LaMetric and iblazr – with almost $800,000 collectively raised on Kickstarter, all have their production set up in China’s Shenzhen. Nazar Bilous, chief executive officer at LaMetric, which …
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Ukrainian Facebook users who express their views on Russia’s war against Ukraine say some of their posts are being wrongly deleted from the world’s largest social network. Bloggers Zen Antipop and Dmytro Ivanov said the country’s blogging community plans to address Facebook management with a statement asking for fairer moderation of their writing.
For those so busy that they don’t have time for leisurely lunches during workdays, the Ukrainian startup Settle offers a solution: ordering food ahead of time so it’s ready when you are ready to eat. What started only as idea last summer is now a free application used in 20 restaurants in Kyiv. It reached …
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While many talented tech students from Ukraine choose to pursue studies abroad at some point of their career, local market players launched a BrainBasket Foundation last year to fund free trainings for those who wish to study programming. The first programs started in November. The goal is to prepare as many as 100,000 tech specialists by 2020, …
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Ukrainian IT sector received a bit of hope that good changes are coming in 2015 after the parliament elections this October. Five former tech industry players received parliament member mandates and became IT sector lobbyists at the legislative level. Luckily for the industry, the lobbyists have different background and represent different parties. Olha Belkova (Petro …
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California’s Silicon Valley attracts many Ukrainian startups looking for investment. It’s where the money is – home to some 8,000 venture funds and 20,000 startups. But how to get this money? And is visiting enough, or should one move there? For starters, one has to be introduced by somebody respected in the tech community, says …
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Kyiv City Hall, which is constantly criticized for paying more attention to distributing expensive land to insiders than serving residents’ needs, launched an online map that reflects the breakdowns in the city’s utility system on Nov. 19. KitSoft, a local website developer, made an interactive map that shows the exact addresses of the buildings experiencing any utility …
It’s cheaper to share. That’s the basis of a trend known as the sharing economy, in which people split costs for traveling, share clothes and economize in other ways. Ukraine’s technology sector is already making money from the sharing economy. “People are not yet fed up with consumerism but are starting to switch to sharing …
Krakow-based Ecois.me, a provider of hardware and software for energy saving, has snagged $100,000 in seed investment from T-Venture, an innovation fund of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. Run by a team of Ukrainian programmers, the startup intends to monetize energy consumption reduction. Ecois.me plans to sell specially designed sensors to customers who keep track of their household power consumption, …
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