From March 21 to March 23, the French capital played host to the Paris Blockchain Week, attracting a variety of thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives and other industry professionals. Some 8,500 attendees in total came from 76 countries, according to the organizers. Ukraine was present in several ways. On the humanitarian side, the UNHCR …
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Euvic Group, a major Polish group of IT service companies, is in the process of acquiring Lviv-based software development provider Exoft. This award-winning Ukraine company currently serves clients in at least 24 countries with more than 50 skilled engineers. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Ukrainian industry insider Vitaly Horovyj told AIN the …
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Yesterday the UK and Ukraine signed a digital trade agreement (DTA) to support Ukraine’s National Recovery Plan while “greatly enhancing the UK-Ukraine trade and investment relationship.” UK businesses will be “mobilised to engage in future reconstruction projects in Ukraine,” the UK government stated. The agreement was inked in the framework of the ‘Road to Ukraine …
Awesomic, a Ukrainian platform that matches businesses with designers, has secured $800,000 in equity funding, reports Tech.eu. Among the investors are three funds — including Flyer One Ventures, based in London but with Ukrainian roots, and Pioneer Fund, a serial investor in Y Combinator startups — as well as two Y Combinator executives, Michael Seibel …
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In yet another sign of resilience amid the war, at least five funding deals involving Ukrainian or Ukrainian-founded startups were reported in the course of February. Finmap landed €1 million in a round led by Polish-American venture fund Smok Ventures, a Warsaw, Poland-based fund. Launched in 2018 by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Ivan Kaunov and Oleksandr Solovei, Finmap is …
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Ukrainian DeFi startup Kolibrio has announced its first round of funding, having raised $2 million from a consortium of Web3 investors. Jump Crypto led the round, with participation from Delta Fund and Everstake Capital alongside unnamed individual investors. The company is developing a solution to help blockchain transaction originators “get ownership of the order flow they …
Megogo, a Ukrainian video service with leading positions in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, is launching on the Polish market. The local service in Poland includes a library of on-demand movies and series as well as pay-TV packages with news, sports, entertainment, kids and educational content, industry media reported. Artur Patsula, who heads the head the …
In spite of the war, Ukraine continues asserting itself as a global software development powerhouse. Intellias, one of the country’s major IT service firms, yesterday announced a new development center in Pune, India. Founded two decades ago, the firm now has a global presence with 15 offices in Europe — from Kyiv, to Berlin, to Malaga, …
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A team of French and US industry veterans is in the process of raising €50 million to support Ukrainian startups. Dubbed ‘Ukrainian Phoenix Fund,’ the new venture fund plans to invest in around 150 startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, said co-founder Dominique Piotet in an exchange with Ukraine Digital News. Funding in its …
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Last week a dozen Ukrainian startups were featured at CES, the premier consumer electronics gathering in Las Vegas. “I think it takes a lot of courage for our Ukrainian friends to be here. They have proven how they are protecting themselves against Russia; but they’re also very entrepreneurial,” AFP quoted as saying Gary Shapiro, President of …
The Washington Post has met Ukrainian military officers using software provided by US tech company Palantir to create detailed digital maps of Ukrainian battlefields. The technology takes advantage of “ubiquitous, unstoppable sensors that surround every potential battlefield,” with data coming from a variety of sources — from the most secret intelligence tools to commercial satellite imagery. …
Tallinn-headquartered crypto exchange Utorg raised $5 million in a round led by US fund Dragon Fly with participation from Hypra and TA Ventures, two funds with Ukrainian roots. Completed in September but publicly announced only recently, the deal valued the startup at $50 million, Forbes Ukraine heard from an unnamed source. Founded in October 2020, …
