Uber has built a “private-label” version of its delivery platform to help the United Nations deliver food and water supplies to war-torn areas of Ukraine. The tech firm is working with the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP). It’s difficult for large delivery trucks to access some parts of Ukraine because of structural damage and the threat of attack.Uber’s …
Last week Ukrainian ride-hailing major Uklon launched an international franchise offer. The company is also open to joint-venture agreements. Among the first target countries are the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, according to Ukrainian tech blog AIN. In a Facebook post Uklon co-founder Serhiy Smus unveiled how the war affected the company: “When we were planning to …
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Cargofy, a logistics/freight tech startup hailing from Ukraine has raised $2 million in seed funding. The capital will be used to further scale operations and iterations of the company’s offer, as well as move forward with plans to establish a network of owner-operators drivers, particularly in the U.S.. Using AI to aggregate multiple shipping provider …
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French carpooling company BlaBlaCar has acquired Ukrainian tech firm Octobus that develops software for bus operators to manage their finances and ticket sales. The companies have not disclosed the price of the acquisition. With Octobus, bus carriers could sell tickets online, analyze their sales and create mobile apps for drivers to keep track of passenger traffic. BlaBlaCar …
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Bolt, an Estonian transportation service startup with global traction, has just launched its food delivery service in downtown Kyiv (Kiev). ‘Bolt Food’ offers meal delivery from over 150 restaurants, from fast food chains to small restaurants. Bolt’s country manager in Ukraine Taras Potichniy said the company’s couriers will start delivering to additional districts of the capital in …
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With the Covid-19 global pandemic still raging, there is new interest in contactless biometrics to authenticate consumers in retail, banking, travel and transportation and make easy touchless payments. In 2017, in Lviv (Western Ukraine), Yuriy Holuzynets and Stanislav Berdnyk co-founded fintech startup Riddletag for the purpose of helping companies better automate their business processes. Their goal was …
BlaBlaCar, the carpooling giant born in France, has stopped offering its services in Crimea, where it had been operating since 2014. The decision aims to avoid being targeted by the EU sanctions against firms operating on the peninsula, according to company representatives cited by local news website Crimea.Info. Since Russia took control of Crimea, a Ukrainian …
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Uber Shuttle operates in Ukraine with multiple violations, a local journalist found. In her article for Ekonomichna Pravda, Iryna Latysh noted the following issues: The van parked at a pedestrian crossing. During a police inspection, turned out that the driver did not have the necessary driving category. Drivers work 10-14 hours a day. Uber Shuttle …
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BlaBlaCar, the carpooling giant born in France, intends to acquire Busfor, a major international bus ticketing platform born in Ukraine. The news was reported today by Russian business daily Kommersant, which cites exchanges with BlaBlaCar’s CEO Nicolas Bruisson and Busfor co-founder Ilya Yekushevsky. The deal, which is still subject to regulatory approval, could be completed in Q4 …
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They’re an iconic feature of Ukrainian public transport: “marshrutkas,” the sometimes rickety, oft maligned, and almost always overcrowded private buses zipping down city streets. They also form an important part of Kyiv’s overburdened public transport sector. Now they have a fierce rival: on May 14, global ride-sharing giant Uber launched its bus service, Uber Shuttle, …
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For three years, US startup Uber and its Ukrainian counterpart Uklon ruled the local taxi industry with their mobile apps. But recently a strong challenger has appeared: Estonian startup Bolt. In fact, it has re-appeared. Bolt worked in Ukraine in 2016 under a different brand name: Taxify. But it couldn’t withstand the competition and left …
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U.S. tech transportation company Uber on March 21 rolled out an eco-friendly taxi service in Kyiv Called Green, the service allows users to order an electric car for a ride. Green has been plugged into the existing Uber mobile application and available from its drop-down menu. Uber expects 10,000 people using the service by the …
