From non profit initiatives (ACLab, Free Ukraine Foundation, Google) to Ukraine-connected venture firms, a variety of funding sources are available for Ukrainian startup entrepreneurs in these difficult times. The online industry portal TechUkraine has listed them.
“By paying for Russian software products, you sponsor Russian aggression toward Ukraine. Every missile that destroys the Ukrainians’ homes and takes away thousands of civilians’ lives is purchased for the taxes from the profit of Russian companies, including software developers,” says a group of Ukrainian volunteers and experts from Netpeak, a Ukrainian digital marketing agency. …
Ukrainian activists urge users of Russian software to replace them with Ukrainian analogs Read More
A month on from Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian IT sector remains resilient, robust, and a crucial part of the country’s economy. A stable source of foreign exchange earnings, the sector is also helping to ensure the digital security of the Ukrainian state: five per cent of IT workers have signed up for …
A month on from Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s remarkable IT sector thrives Read More
Social media messaging has become a crucial battleground complementing the Ukrainian military’s performance on the physical front lines, as images and information ripple out on Instagram, Facebook, Telegram and TikTok. “We are experiencing the war very viscerally through social media feeds,” said Emerson Brooking, a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based international-affairs …
“Like a weapon:” Ukrainians use social media to stir resistance Read More
Will Russia take control of Ukraine after a quick military victory? Will it be a long-lasting war of guerrilla? Could an escalation involve neighboring countries and western powers? The outcome of the Russian military attack on Ukraine that began on Thursday, Feb. 24, is unpredictable. But just hours after the invasion, the impact on the …
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, with a column by EWDN Chief Editor Adrien Henni that highlights the most notable industry facts and trends across the region. “With Russia and Belarus digging themselves into domestic authoritarianism and international confrontation, a looming …
January 13-14, Ukrainian government sites were hit by a massive cyber-attack. The attack immediately prompted harsh warnings from the international community and the general assumption that Russian hackers were behind the attack. However, on further investigation it appears the attack originated in Belarus and the hackers had access to the administration codes from a private company that …
Meet UNC1151, the group behind the latest attack against Ukrainian websites Read More
Last year saw the international triumph of a range of Ukrainian-founded tech companies. While Grammarly and GitLab became decacorns, other Ukrainian entrepreneurs raised dozens of million US dollars to boost their projects. The domestic scene was marked by good and bad news — from notable moves on the path to sustainable development, to persisting cyber …
Cost is no longer the only trademark of the CEE region, shows a whitepaper just released by Daxx, a software development and technology consulting service provider with development centers in Ukraine. The time for mere business processes outsourcing to countries like Ukraine just for the sake lowering costs is gone for good. As Central and …
Report: Cost is no longer the only trademark of CEE IT service industry Read More
Crunchbase and Ukraine Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Eastern Europe with a column by EWDN Chief Editor Adrien Henni highlights the most notable industry facts and trends across the region. The second quarter of this year was marked, in particular, by the emergence of new funds targeting …
A team of French and US researchers has just published a paper about the geopolitical significance of data routing, through the analysis of Eastern Ukraine. Their paper proposes “new methodologies to understand and represent the new forms of power rivalries and imbalances that occur within the lower layers of cyberspace.” “We [selected] Eastern Ukraine as …
Mapping the routes of the Internet for geopolitics: The case of Eastern Ukraine Read More
Crunchbase and East-West Digital News are teaming up to cover key tech and venture trends from Eastern Europe. The last column by EWDN Chief Editor Adrien Henni highlights the most notable industry facts and trends in the first quarter of 2021. Almost no major local deals took place in this period, but Eastern European tech …
