Preply, a platform to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons, has entered the acceleration program of TechStars in Berlin, which the US accelerator launched earlier this year. The Ukrainian startup, which has received $120,000 from the accelerator, will move its headquarters to the German capital.
Resuming activities in Ukraine after two years of interruption, Mobile Monday gathered more than 90 industry professionals at Kyiv (Kiev)’s iHUB on June 25. In addition to mobile developers, project managers, top managers and investors, the event hosted industry figures from such companies as Groupon, ABBYY, Lohika Systems, Intersog, 4shared, Ciklum, Luxoft, PaymentWall. Also attending were Ms. Arja Makkonen, Ambassador of …
Sergii Sosnov’s 10-year journey started from a local bank in Luhansk (Lugansk) in eastern Ukraine to the Goldman Sachs office in London, and from there to a bootstrapped startup in the hot British financial technology industry. Today he is the CEO and founder of Zen Assets. Opening for business in February, the wealth management firm …
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Around 60,000 employees of IT outsourcing and consulting firms in Ukraine produce almost a half of $5 billion industry’s value. Ukraine, though, does not always market all competitive advantages of its tech specialists. During the Business Sweden forum held in Kyiv on June 16, the representatives of software development and IT consulting firm Sigma Software …
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Ecoisme, a Ukrainian startup which moved its headquarters last year to Poland, has launched its device to “track energy usage of any device, get tips to reduce it and alerts about devices left turned on.” Presented as “the world’s most intelligent home energy monitoring system,” the Ecoisme device is currently available on Indiegogo, where it …
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Sweden’s Ericsson was one of the first telecommunications equipment providers to enter Ukraine, opening an office in 1995. The move paid off as it turned into a core supplier to Ukrainian mobile network operators and Internet vendors. Now, as Ukraine makes the transition to third generation Internet, Ericsson sees more opportunities.
In 2014 — three years after successful launch on the Russian market — footwear and clothing online retailer Lamoda entered the Ukrainian market. In spite of the political and economic turmoil, the Rocket Internet creature has asserted itself as one of the country’s main e-commerce companies. Its general manager, Poland’s Andrzej Malinowski, unveiled his strategy …
Earlier this month nine Ukrainian startups finalists presented their hardware and software projects at the iHub Ring #2 contest. The first prize and the audience award went to Preply, a platform that allows you to find foreign language tutors for home or Skype lessons.
Earlier this month, Ukrainian clients of PayU, an international PSP which belongs to Naspers via the Allegro Group, were informed that the company will stop activities in the country in the near future. While the company explained its decision as “based mainly on an assessment of the current and expected market conditions,” Ukrainian tech publication …
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Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA reported last week that Openroad Capital, which represents a group of Baltic investors, intends to invest in 10 Ukrainian startups. Openroad Capital is ready to invest from $25,000 to $500,000 in each project, depending on the project’s stage of development, and intends to focus on startups with global ambitions. Eugene Vlasov, …
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For its 7th edition in Sofia on April 21-22, the CEE Digital Summit (CEEDS) will welcome Mr. Andrus Ansip, Vice President for the Digital Single Market at the European Commission among 100 top speakers and more than 3,000 attendees from 40 countries. Ukrainian startups are cordially invited to demonstrate their technology and talent at the …
Ukrainian startup Poptop.fm, which provides a marketplace for hiring musicians and photographers, has obtained $30,000 from Torben Majgaard, the Danish businessman who founded Ciklum, a leading Ukrainian nearshore software development firm. Further details of the deal were not disclosed. “I like Poptop’s area of business as well as the team’s attitude,” Majgaard said in an exchange with Ukraine Digital News. …
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