Just four months after ten Ukrainian green startups received Climate Innovation Vouchers (CIVs) worth €400,000 in total, another five eco-friendly startups founded by Ukrainians have been awarded the CIVs worth €170,000. The vouchers were offered by the EBRD and Greencubator, a local non profit which promotes green entrepreneurship in Ukraine, on May 23.
The total amount of venture capital investment in Ukrainian or Ukrainian-founded IT companies reached its peak in 2017 totaling $259 million. This is three times more than a year before, says the 2018 edition of annual Overview of Ukrainian investment market released on May 17 by Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in …
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U.Ventures, a venture investment fund launched in late 2017 by WNISEF, has just announced a $1.5 million investment in three Ukrainian startups: YouTeam, 3DLook and Pufetto. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. The funding will be used to improve their products, expand their teams and scale up. YouTeam, a marketplace for hiring remote software …
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The 6th New Ukraine investment conference will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 15-17. This annual event organized by the investment firm Empire State Capital Partners features panel discussions with members of the international and local business communities as well as government representatives. Industries covered include: agriculture and food; venture capital, technology and blockchain; conventional …
Earlier this week AVentures Capital, a major early-stage venture capital fund based in Ukraine, announced an investment from Danish businessman Torben Majgaard, the founder of Ciklum, a major software engineering company operating globally from its main office in Kyiv (Kiev). Neither the form of Majgaard’s participation nor the exact amount of his contribution have been disclosed. …
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Earlier this month Ukrainian startup DreamTeam, which touts itself as “the world’s first infrastructure platform and payment gateway for eSports and gaming,” announced an investment from Mangrove Capital Partners, a leading Western European venture fund, as part of its ICO. As part of the deal, David Waroquier, partner at Mangrove Capital and a pioneer in investment in …
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Startups from Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia (FYROM), Moldova and Montenegro are invited to participate for free in the Eastern Europe Tech Tour 2018 (EETT). The tour will take place on June 11-12 in Warsaw, Poland and on June 12-13 in Sofia, …
Starta Ventures, a tech investment group with Russian roots operating internationally, has launched a new venture fund targeting startups from Eastern Europe. “We’ll focus on high-tech startups with global potential from Eastern Europe – which includes Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and others,” said fund representative Elena Shushunova in an exchange with Ukraine …
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Startups from Ukraine, or founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs, raised $265 million in 2017, according to the latest edition of “The Dealbook of Ukraine.” This annual report is published by AVentures Capital, a Kyiv-based venture fund, in partnership with local industry associations UVCA and UAngel as well as Ukraine Digital News. In spite of a threefold …
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East-West Digital News and Ukraine Digital News recently released a lengthy research report on startup investment and innovation in Emerging Europe. It is the first-ever extensive look at startups in the 24 countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Ukraine. The report is available for free download. Made in Ukraine Tech Startup Edition, a …
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On February 26, AVentures Capital, a major early-stage venture capital fund based in Ukraine, announced that it acquired a minority stake in CoreValue, a Ukraine-based IT outsourcing company. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed. “We are glad to partner up with the leading salesforce developer in CEE and one of the fastest growing …
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How do the local startup scenes look like in Estonia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine — but also in less known countries, from Bosnia-Herzegovina, to Moldova, to Georgia? How much do VCs invest these countries? Are corporations involved in these emerging ecosystems? Which are the most well-funded startups, and which younger ones should be followed? Why do so many …
