Venture/Private equity

Ukrainian VCs back Belarusian creative video editing startup Vochi

The Ukrainian venture capital firm TA Ventures and private investor club ICLUB have participated in the latest funding round of Vochi, reports AIN.UA. The Belarusian start-up raised $2.4 million in total in this late-stage round. Other investors include Angelsdeck, A.Partners, Startup Wise Guys and Kolos VC. Vochi has developed an app for creative video editing, leveraging a “unique computer-vision based technology.” Neural networks are …

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Cloud platform Onlizer raises $500,000 to develop business automation

Onlizer, has raised $500,000 from QPDigital, a Ukrainian VC firm launched last year, in a pre-seed funding round. Founded in 2017, Onlizer provides a “new vision of service integration and business solution development,” helping companies “easily and efficiently automate processes and empower integration professionals with endless possibilities to scale their knowledge and skills.” Originating from …

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The Current Wave: New breed of Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs seek success in global markets, Part 5

Best Ukrainian startups invited to participate in international survey

RA Capital, a startup and VC research agency, has teamed up with eō Busines Incubators and Ukrainian Startup Fund to track the recent developments of Ukraine’s startup ecosystem and highlight 30 of the country’s most exciting startups. A first-of-its-kind survey aims to “identify potential unicorns” and to “analyze the impact of startup ecosystem development on …

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Globalized Eastern European startup founders are the darlings of a new wave of funds

Several venture funds emerged over the past few months with a specific focus on Eastern-European tech entrepreneurs operating across the world — offering new opportunities for Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs to develop their projects internationally. Thus The Untitled, an established Russian venture firm, has raised €100 million for a new, London-based vehicle that will typically invest in startups with Russian, …

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Zerion secures $8.2 million to make decentralized finance accessible to all

Last week Zerion, a Californian decentralized finance (DeFi) startup with Russian and Ukrainian founders,announcedthe completion of a $8.2 million round. Led by Mosaic Ventures, the deal also involved Placeholder, Lightspeed, Blockchain.com Ventures and organizations — as well as a dozen of individual investors from the crypto community. Zerion touts its investing app as “the simplest …

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Ukrainian startup backed by local and foreign investors to prepare “the future of rehabilitation”

Last month ComeBack Mobility, a Ukrainian startup that develops smart crutch tips, raised $1 million in seed funding. The investor consortium included Fison, a Ukrainian fund  founded by Dmitry Tomchuk; Farmak Group, a Ukrainian pharmaceutical major, as well as several individual investors including Peter Chernyshov, the former CEO of top mobile operator Kyivstar, and French Frédéric Delfosse. Founded in 2020 and …

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Yuliya Sychikova of AVentures Capital: “Almost all Ukrainian venture deals are made with entities registered in other jurisdictions”

The US-Ukraine Foundation (USUF) offers a new episode of its On the Digital Frontier webcast series, with Mike Buryk discussing with AVentures Capital Director Yuliya Sychikova and UADN Chief Editor Adrien Henni the country’s current venture trends. The discussion stems from the key findings of ‘The Dealbook of Ukraine 2021,’ an industry report released in …

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Belarusian entrepreneur finds safe harbor in Ukraine, raises $300,000 to develop edtech startup

EduDo, an edtech startup with Belarusian roots, has closed a $300,000 funding round led by the Ukrainian venture firm Adventures Lab with participation from Cyprus-based venture studio Embria and Russian business angel Dmitry Vasiliev.  The deal was reported in late April by Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA, which cited an exchange with a fund representative. The …

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Ukrainian entrepreneur launches mental health support platform in the USA

A figure of the Ukrainian tech and venture scene, Oleksii (Alexey) Vitchenko, has launched and funded an online mental health support platform in the USA.  Founded in early 2021, Calmerry has set for itself the mission of “making therapy affordable and accessible to anyone.”  Subscription plans start from just $42 a week, allowing people with …

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Eastern Europe quarterly review: Major Ukrainian deals secured abroad, Belarusian startups adapt to political turmoil

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 …

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Ukrainian startup raises $500,000 to develop “the cleanest toothbrush ever”

Ukrainian startup Effa, which creates nature-friendly toothbrushes, has attracted $500,000 of investment and is now valued at $3.5 million, its cofounder Dasha Kichuk said on April 12. The money came from a Ukrainian private investor who doesn’t reveal his name to avoid requests for financing from other startups, Kichuk told the Kyiv Post. With the new investment, …

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Investment in Ukrainian-founded startups reached record high $571 million in 2020

In 2020, the total VC and PE investment volume in Ukrainian or Ukrainian-founded tech companies reached a record high $571 million. This data is provided by AVentures Capital, a major local VC firm, in its authoritative VC report published last month. The volume of seed deals more than doubled year-on-year to $42 million. Meanwhile, the volume of …

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