Incubators & technoparks

PrivatBank launches business incubator for first-time entrepreneurs

Last month PrivatBank, a major Ukrainian bank, launched a business incubator allowing entrepreneurs from all fields, including high tech, to jump start their business from scratch. The incubator will operate as part of ‘Country of entrepreneurs,’ the bank’s national program for enterprise development and job creation. This program aims to create no less than one …

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City of Krakow lends hand to Ukrainian startup entrepreneurs (application deadline: Oct. 15)

As municipal acceleration programs are getting more and more popular in Poland, Krakow’s KRK Road to Success is inviting young Ukrainian startups to join its program. Together with Ad Ventures, the municipal authorities have opened a call for applications to their first batch of pre-acceleration program. These three days of intensive mentoring, meetings with investors and local startup …

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Ukrainian money lending startup gets into Italian fintech accelerator, launches in Europe

Ukrainian startup Taplend allows you to “get money transfers from your friends on your PayPal account with no interest or fee at all” or to “borrow it from financial institutions on your bank account or card through the iOS application in just few taps.” According to the Ukrainian high tech blog AIN.UA, the startup will …

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Social commerce startup Wishround takes part in joint program with online retailer ASOS and British accelerator Wayra

Wishround, a Ukrainian startup which has developed an advanced social commerce solution, became resident of the British acceleration program Wayra, managed by telecom-operator Telefonica. The startup will receive £34,000 under the condition of convertible note, an office in London for eight months, mentoring, and access to investors, reports Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA.

Denis Dovgopoliy: “Outsourcing is the base upon which a number of strong startups will emerge in Ukraine”

The history of startup infrastructure in Ukraine is one of highs and lows. The last few years have seen a few accelerators come and go, with others significantly reducing their operations. However, despite all the crises of the last decade, some of the major players have managed to stick around and show the way to …

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Ukrainian startup Ecoisme gets in Richard Branson’s accelerator, secures new investment from business angels

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 …

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Ukrainian-American startup raises $2.6 million to “make lives better for pet parents and their pets”

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, …

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In Odessa, a new business accelerator trains startups and teaches the elderly

A new business accelerator, christened “iQSpace,” was launch in late December in Odessa, southern Ukraine, to promote both entrepreneurship activity and IT literacy. It has three activity areas: technology school, lectureship and IT incubator. Using curriculum provided by the Lviv IT School, the school teaches the elderly basic IT skills and young professionals sophisticated programming languages.

New incubator to support Open Data projects amid weak social demand

The ‘1991 Open Data Incubator,’ Ukraine’s first incubator for Open Data projects, was launched last week by SocialBoost, a tech NGO, in partnership with the Ukrainian government, Western NIS Enterprise Fund and Microsoft Ukraine. The incubator aims to create socially-oriented services and applications based on government open data. Its website is available only in Ukrainian. The project is a contribution to improving the economy and …

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16-year-old Ukrainian entrepreneur launches fintech startup in Australia

Stas Prisiazhnuk, a 16-year-old entrepreneur from Donetsk, a war-torn city in Eastern Ukraine, is expecting to receive $40,000 in seed-stage funding from Muru-D, a Australian startup accelerator program, to develop his fintech project Persollo. Muru-D will receive a 4% stake in the company. The young entrepreneur told Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA that the project had …

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