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Lviv business school and New York accelerator aim to promote FoodTech in Ukraine

August 28, 2018

How will Ukraine, which has been historically known as the “breadbasket of Europe” because of its major production of agricultural products, including especially wheat, seize the opportunities of the revolution occurring today in advanced countries in the field of food technologies? As new startups and innovators are disrupting how food is produced, distributed, sold and …

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USDOC SABIT IT 2018 program picks tech startups from former Soviet Union

May 25, 2018

The US Department of Commerce (USDOC) International Trade Administration established the SABIT program in 1990 to promote the economic restructuring of countries from the former Soviet Union. There are several group programs within this initiative including Health Care and IT. The SABIT IT tech startup program recently chose 18 participants for its June 2018 executive …

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Hong Kong, Israeli and US accelerators help Ukrainian startups go global

May 15, 2018

In theri strive to go global, many startups with Ukrainian take advantage of international acceleration programs situated in advanced tech markets. Thus PromoRepublic, a startup founded in Kiev in 2013, is perhaps the country’s most globalized startups, having joined and completes no less that four acceleration programs from Estonia, to Chile, to Finland and the USA (see case …

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Ukrainian billionaire launches startup accelerator with Poroshenko’s daughter-in-law

November 20, 2017

Billionaire Yuriy Kosyuk, the owner of Ukraine’s largest agricultural holding Myronivsky Hliboprodukt, known as MHP, is now investing in the information technology sector. Kosyuk is partnering with two enterprises – tech cluster Radar Tech and Agrohub – to organize a startup accelerator MHP Accelerator for IT startups working on agriculture projects. Agrohub is owned by …

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Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs go global in the New York Area

November 10, 2017

Three Ukrainian startups have recently established a foothold in the New York area for sales, marketing and further expansion on the global market. Agrieye is an Odessa-based player in the smart agriculture market founded in 2016. It provides the tools for small-to-medium sized farms to utilize precision agriculture. It is a participant in the Starta Accelerator program in New …

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Ukrainian drone maker aims to protect American crops “with 600% return on investment”

September 29, 2017

Earlier this month Kray Technologies, a US-headquartered startup with Ukrainian roots, secured an undisclosed amount of funding, as confirmed to Ukraine Digital News by Andrey Dashkiev, COO of the company. The funding came from Ukrainian investment company Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) and three individual investors, including Ruslan Savchyshyn.

Mastercard launches incubation program for fintech startups in Ukraine

September 14, 2017

Mastercard has teamed up with 1991 Open Data Incubator, Ukraine’s first incubator for Open Data projects launched in early 2016, and National Bank of Ukraine (the central bank, or NBU) to launch a free incubation program for fintech startups. The program kicks off in October and will last till January 2018. Dubbed ‘Fintech Master,’ the …

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Kyivstar displays its “innovative DNA” with 2nd startup acceleration program

July 20, 2017

Telecom-accelerator 2.0, a joint project by Ukrainian technological cluster Radar Tech and major telco Kyivstar, announced the start of its second acceleration program for Ukrainian startups earlier this month. Eleven startups have been selected out of 34 applications to participate in the project.

New public-private agency to incubate defense technologies in Ukraine

May 8, 2017

Last month saw the launch of the Innovations Development Platform (IDP), Ukraine’s first agency dedicated to the incubation and development of innovative defense projects. Inspired by Israel’s Chief Scientist’s Office, this public-private partnership initiative aims to bring together developers, experts and investors “to develop innovations for the Ukrainian army and foreign partners in transparent commercial conditions.”

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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Ukrainian teams invited to apply to leading European B2B startup acclerator and receive €20,000 (deadline: Jan 31)

January 18, 2017

Early stage B2B startups from Ukraine and other Eastern European countries are invited to apply for a three-month Startup Wise Guys acceleration program, which will take place this spring in Tallinn. Twenty-five pre-selected teams will participate in three-day finals on February 20-22 in Tallinn. The program will include more than 20 one-on-one mentor and investor …

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Ukrainian startup Ecoisme to reduce energy consumption in Dubai households

December 22, 2016

Ecoisme, a Ukrainian startup which has developed a connected device for energy management, has agreed with the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) an eight-month pilot project to improve energy efficiency in the emirate. The agreement, signed in late November, came as a result of Ecoisme’s participation in a three-month acceleration program in Dubai Future Accelerators. Supported by the Dubai Future Foundation …

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