In a blog post published by Atlantic Council, Ukraine’s Digital Transformation minister analyzes the progress of digitalization in his country amid the war and its significance. In spite of the horrors of the invasion, “Ukrainians continue to open new businesses, get married, pay taxes, and apply for financial assistance from the state.” To a large …
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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Earlier this week Digital Media Solutions, a major US provider of high-tech digital advertising solutions, announced the acquisition of the ClickDealer’s media and technology assets, including the HomeQuote marketplace. ClickDealer was founded back in 2012 by three Ukrainian entrepreneurs: Max Polyakov, Tetiana Serediuk, and Dmytro Atamaniuk. Initially an affiliate network covering several niche verticals, the company …
Recently Sifted, a major tech news outlet in Europe, met the founders of “some of the continent’s most resilient startups.” These Ukrainians are the heroes of a special podcast that appeared last week on the Sifted website. The program shows how these entrepreneurs, their teams and investors, sometimes “trapped in basements with Russian troops on …
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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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Internet 2.0, an internationally-renowned Australian cybersecurity company, will train Ukrainian war veterans to ward off hackers as part of the nation’s defense efforts. Visiting Ukraine in December 2022, the company’s CEO Robert Potter signed an MoU with the ministry of digital transformation, according to media reports. He announced the opening of an office in Kyiv, aiming to support …
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A long-read from Institute Artist describes the activity of Ukrainian “information partisans” who get immersed among anonymous users on social network and comment sections of online media. Their mission is to “stir trouble on the other side, get information and sow disinformation.” Among these cyber volunteers is Tania, who gets acquainted with Russian soldiers involved …
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Ukrainian tech blog AIN met Nikita Izmaylov, founder of Ukrainian investment fund N1, which targets on fintech and crypto startups at the early stage. Izmaylov shared insights about his fund, the portfolio companies, and the challenges they have faced since the war broke out in February. N1’s plans to invest some $5 million in four or …
When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based tech entrepreneur Irra Ariella Khi, co-founder of Zamna, set up a fundraising page to directly support people inside Ukraine. Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children. Khi then temporarily stepped back from her day job at Zamna (which …
While some Ukrainian employees feel guilty about leaving their country in wartime, People.ai’s founder Oleg Rogynskyy believes there are several ways to serve Ukraine from abroad. Rogynskyy himself helps coordinate contributions from the Silicon Valley tech community in favour of Ukraine, he said in an interview with Financial Times (see excerpts in TechUkraine.org). With “a gut …
Last week Unstoppable Domains, a San Francisco-headquartered company incepted four years ago, announced the completion of a $65 million funding round involving 19 investors and bringing its valuation to more than $1 billion. The new unicorn specializes in “domains secured by blockchains”with such extensions as .crypto, .nft, .x, .wallet, .blockchain, etc. These domains are “more than …
Founded in 2011 in Kyiv by Aleksandr Konotopskyi, today Ajax Systems a major manufacturer of security systems in Europe. Last year, the Ajax Systems team grew to 1,700 people, entered 10 new markets, and surpassed the mark of 1 million users. Despite the war, all global challenges, and after the first quarter of the year, …
