Odesa, Ukraine is among the cities shortlisted to host the World EXPO at the end of this decade. In the opinion of the organisers, the World Expo is an opportunity for nations to create “fleeting miniature worlds”, buzzing with future tech, arts and displays that foster a cultural dialogue with international peers. Odesa’s EXPO 2030 bid …
A new IT cluster has emerged in Western Ukraine’s Transcarpathia, a region that hosts a number of refugees from other regions of the countries that are torn or threatened by war. Some 30,000 tech professionals were based in the region as of early September, up from just 2,000 before the war, according to Zhanna Kapitsa, …
In Western Ukraine, far from the front, new IT cluster gathers 100 companies Read More
Last week we visited the wartime ІТ Arena 2022 – definitely the most resilient and brave conference in the world, which gathered over 1000 attendees in Lviv! This year’s event was themed “Ukraine 3.0: Brave. Resilient. Digital” and held in person to show the strength and resilience of Ukraine and Ukrainian tech.
Since 2016, industry association Lviv IT Cluster has published an annual report on industry trends in this tech-friendly region of western Ukraine. This year, the research aims to reflect the key evolutions Ukrainian IT industry in wartime nationwide. While more than 5,000 respondents were surveyed in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil, Volyn, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions, the …
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The authority installed by occupying Russian troops in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson announced yesterday that access to Instagram and YouTube was now blocked locally. Officials acknowledge, however, that the American social networks are still available through VPNs, reports Meduza. In the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, Russians were reported to have disabled mobile Internet service by Ukrainian …
Pro-Russian authority in Kherson cuts access to Instagram and YouTube Read More
Brooks Newmark, an angel investor in the U.K. and former senior partner at Apollo Global Management, was in Kharkiv, Ukraine, yesterday—where he has been trying to evacuate approximately 180 disabled children and their caregivers to safety. “In a quiet garden listening to bombs dropping in the distance,” he told me via email, shortly before our second …
European angel investors have bussed more than 7,500 Ukrainians to safety Read More
Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second-most-populous city and home to its thriving $6.8 billion tech sector. In September 2021, it housed more than 500 tech companies, and the industry had grown more than 50% in two years. Today, Kharkiv, a city of 1.5 million people just 45km (25 mi) from the Russian border, is also among the most vulnerable …
Ukrainian tech workers are getting evacuated — and many say they will never go back Read More
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is one of the most popular multiplayer first-person shooter games around, and the unofficial CS:GO world title now belongs to Natus Vincere (NAVI), a team based in Kyiv comprising Russian and Ukrainian players. In the final game of the latest Major Championship tournament (held in Stockholm over the past two weeks), NAVI …
Russian-Ukrainian eSports team claims world title in Kyiv Read More
Onlizer, has raised $500,000 from QPDigital, a Ukrainian VC firm launched last year, in a pre-seed funding round. Founded in 2017, Onlizer provides a “new vision of service integration and business solution development,” helping companies “easily and efficiently automate processes and empower integration professionals with endless possibilities to scale their knowledge and skills.” Originating from …
Cloud platform Onlizer raises $500,000 to develop business automation Read More
A new STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) education centre has opened in Kramatorsk, Donetsk oblast, under the UN Recovery and Peacebuilding Programme, partially funded by European Union. The centre will be a unique place for young people interested in technological innovations, and will aid in the professional development of teachers, who will actively apply the principles of …
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Foreign businesses and investors call Ukraine an inspiring country: Despite years of economic difficulties, it still manages “to create technology that is both scalable and global,” reads StartupBlink’s just released annual report on startup ecosystems. According to the report, Ukraine ranked 34th in the list of 100 startup-friendly countries — it lost five points compared …
Report: Ukraine ranks 34th among world’s best countries for startups Read More
Grid Dynamics, a Ukrainian-founded, NASDAQ-listed digital transformation consultancy and solution provider, has acquired Tacit Knowledge, a major provider and integrator of digital commerce solutions. “We are pleased to welcome Tacit Knowledge to the Grid Dynamics family. [This company] excels at consulting for top global brands, differentiate through a focus on digital transformation, and consistently deliver the highest …
