Luciding, a Ukrainian startup whose headband device “provides lucid dreams every night,” has received $10,000 in investment from iQSpace, a business incubator based in Odessa, southern Ukraine, as reported earlier this month by AIN.UA. Another $10,000 will be injected under the condition that the device obtain a European certification and get its first 100 clients.
Ukrainian startup Softcube has just raised $400,000, including $200,000 from Digital Future, a Kyiv (Kiev)-based seed-stage fund, and another $200,000 from two individual investors. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Softcube does three things: it collects customer behavior data, uses algorithms to analyze it and creates ways to get in touch with …
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TA Ventures, a major venture fund based in Ukraine but operating globally, has just taken part in a €5.5 million Series A round for its portfolio company data Artisans. Based in Berlin, this startup is developing “the next-generation large-scale data analysis technology” under the umbrella of the Apache Flink project. The round was led by Intel Capital with …
Highbrow, an internationally-oriented Ukrainian startup developing an educational email subscription service, has just raised a $150,000 angel round to develop its user base. The news was reported yesterday by local tech blog AIN.UA, based on an exchange with the startup’s co-founder Artem Zavyalov. The startup had never raised investor money before. The investor is “a renowned …
Ukrainian startup raises $150,000 to fill “huge knowledge gap” in people’s lives Read More
Ukrainian startup ReplyApp has attracted $350,000 from investment company Digital Future and $50,000 from seed fund WannaBiz to develop its automatic email service on the U.S. market. ReplyApp’s founder, Oleg Bilozor, 29, says the money will help the company accelerate recruitment for offices in several countries, which in turn will speed up the startup’s growth.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian energy-management startup Ecoisme was selected to participate in the Virgin Media Accelerator program, an initiative of Richard Branson in partnership with US incubator TechStars and Liberty Global Ventures. Ecoisme is the only startup from the region to be chosen among other applicants from 71 countries, as reported by Ukrainian tech blog …
YouAppi, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a Big Data-driven solution for mobile marketing, has raised $13.1 million from an international consortium of investors, including Ukraine’s Digital Future. Also participating in this Series B round are Click Ventures, Emery Capital (Russia), Global Brain (Japan) and Hawk Ventures (USA), Israeli funds Glilot Capital Partners and 2B Angels, as well …
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Earlier this month Ukrainian-American startup Petcube, which has developed an interactive device to keep people connected with their pets, announced that it raised $2.6 million in its second round of funding. The round was led by Almaz Capital, an international venture fund with Russian origins, with the participation of AVentures Capital, a leading Ukrainian fund, and Y Combinator, …
Earlier this month PDNA, a Ukrainian startup that develops projects in the field of symbiotic artificial intelligence, raised €200,000 from local venture fund Digital Future. The money will be used to develop the company’s first project, LifeTracker.io, which aims to “track all dimensions of your life automatically” with “automatic monitoring of mood changes and emotions.” …
A United Arab Emirates business incubator – venture fund FasterCapital based in Dubai – has announced it is entering the Ukrainian market, promising up to $3 million in investment in Ukrainian startup companies. According to Sergiy Andriychuk, the head of FasterCapital’s Ukrainian unit, the incubator is mostly interested in technology startups that develop software, online …
Dubai business incubator to fund, train Ukrainian startups Read More
CMS Group, a Ukrainian group of advertising agencies, has launched its own investment fund CMS Ventures. The company intends to invest $1 million into Ukrainian marketing startups having a potential for growth in such Russian-language countries as Russia and Kazakhstan. Formerly known as Tabasco Group, CMS Group was founded in 2006 by Alexander Gorlov. It gathers nine independent …
Ukrainian advertising agency group to invest $1 million in marketing startups Read More
IT Forum, a major industry event in Ukraine, held its fourth edition on November 29 in Kyiv (Kiev). The event brought together industry players from all over the country to highlight the key trends of 2015 and present their plans for 2016. Among the discussed topics were development, design and quality assurance, mobile technologies, outsourcing, …
Industry players see startup ecosystem and mobile technologies grow fast in 2016 Read More
