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Ukrainian-Russian startup raises $1.5 million to teach English to Polish and Spanish kids

March 7, 2019

AllRight.io, an e-learning startup with Ukrainian and Russian roots, has just secured $1.5 million in a funding round led by Buran Venture Capital. Founded in 2017, AllRight provides childrens aged 4-12 with courses of English as a foreign language. The startup claims to serve more than 1,700 active users monthly, essentially from Russia, with 150 …

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New educational program aims to prepare more crypto developers in Ukraine

January 22, 2019

Aiming to address the deficit of developers in the field, several crypto platforms, the Blockchain Association of Ukraine (BAU) and the Ukrainian National IT Factory (UNIT) have teamed up to launch ‘Blockchain Hub Academy,’ an educational program on cryptocurrency technologies. The 4-month course is divided into two segments. The first part called ‘Satoshi Way’ is …

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Ukraine launches free school for white hackers

October 29, 2018

Earlier this month Cyber School, a cyber-security school which claims to offer “the most difficult program in Eastern Europe,” announced its launch in Kyiv (Kiev). It is hosted by UNIT.City, an innovation park funded by the Ukrainian serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Vasyl Khmelnytsky. Kicking off in late November, the English-only program starts with a four-week crash course, …

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Preply raises $4 million to teach young professionals how to conduct business in 40 languages

July 25, 2018

Preply, a global private language tutoring platform with Ukrainian roots, has just announced the completion of a $4 million round of funding. The funding will support the long-term development of future products, including improving the Preply calendar, its instant booking feature, and the launch of its mobile apps. Preply enters a market dominated by the likes of Duolingo, …

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Swedish government provides $1.7 million to open IT schools across Ukraine

July 11, 2018

Sweden has partnered with Swedish-Ukrainian non-profit Beetroot Academy to spread information technology schools across Ukraine, according to the Embassy of Sweden in Kyiv. The agreement foresees a three-year program to foster Beetroot Academy to double their current number of IT schools to a total of 20 locations across the country, which will “help the development …

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U.S. Department of Commerce offers tech startup training program

March 23, 2018

The U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) once again is offering its Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT) program for executives in tech startup companies from 10 countries of the former Soviet Union. The countries included are: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

Ukrainian NGO launches IT education program for Ukrainian teachers

October 10, 2017

BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO dedicated to IT education, has announced a new venture — a nationwide social education project to retrain school teachers of computer science for free and turn them into “agents of change.” The project will kick off this month. The teachers will study, in particular, HTML/CSS and website-development. They will receive …

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Ukrainian NGO launches programming courses in Moldova and Slovakia, more countries to join

May 23, 2017

BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO dedicated to IT education, has announced the expansion of its Technology Nation education program to two Slovakian cities — Bratislava and Kosice. “Allowing people to learn basics of programming for free while getting a certificate from Harvard University is a great initiative, and I am happy to support BrainBasket Foundation in this …

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US government fund supports kids programming courses in Ukraine

April 28, 2017

Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF), a $150 million regional private equity fund backed by USAID to invest in Ukraine and Moldova, has supported the Technology Nation Kids program. Launched by BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO dedicated to IT education, the initiative aims to provide free programming training for nine to eleven-year-old children in Ukraine.

Ukrainian student hackathon to explore innovative education technologies (Kharkiv, April 22-23)

April 10, 2017

On April 22-23, a 24-hour hackathon devoted to innovative IT solutions in education will be held in Kharkiv (Kharkov), Eastern Ukraine. Participants will pitch to the representatives of Ukrainian tech universities, IT business and venture funds to compete for a 30,000 hryvnia award (approximately $1,100). Christened “IT-Eureka! Ukraine,” the event will attract Ukrainian student teams, …

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Four Ukrainian universities team up to launch student business incubation network

February 20, 2017

YEP Incubators, which is presented as the first Ukrainian network of academic business incubators, will launch its first incubation program in April. Startups are invited to apply till March 26. A Demo Day is scheduled for June 10, 2017. Four Ukrainian universities — Kyiv National Economic University, National Aviation University, Taras Shevchenko University and Donetsk National …

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BrainBasket Foundation launches crowdfunding campaign for educational program

January 26, 2017

BrainBasket Foundation, a Ukrainian NGO dedicated to IT education, has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign with a flexible goal to raise $50,000 for its national education program Technology Nation in two months. “We want to demonstrate that Ukraine and its potential in IT is a global matter, as the future developments created by our graduates …

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