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In June the European Commission launched a tender for a €20 million action in support of the Ukrainian innovation community. In the framework of the 2022 European Innovation Council (EIC) work program, the action will aim to support at least 200 Ukrainian tech start-ups with up to €60,000 each, in addition to various forms of non-financial support. …

An inside look into the EU’s €20 million program in support of Ukrainian startup Read More

Weeks before tanks and soldiers marched on the cities of Ukraine, Russia carried out a series of successful cyberattacks against Ukraine, hitting critical infrastructure and financial institutions around the country with at least six unique strains of destructive wiper malware. Recent reporting confirms Russia’s GRU also carried out a massive cyberattack against Viasat, knocking its customers’ KA-SAT satellite …

How Russia’s war on Ukraine and Kyiv’s call for help sparked off the first ever global cyber guerrilla Read More

Unlike Ukraine’s manufacturing plants, warehouses and stores, many of which lie in ruins, its IT sector has had much better luck.  The tech industry reacted with lightning speed to the new reality dictated by Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine. Early in the invasion and even before it, companies started to relocate whole teams into safer …

Ukrainian tech industry demonstrates resilience amid the war Read More

Serge Faguet, a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur who studied at Stanford and co-founded Russian booking service Ostrovok in the early 2010s, made a public confession last week in a Medium post.  In the summer of last year, a Russian customs agent at the Moscow airport found five tabs of acid — in addition to a US-physician-prescribed capsule …

How a Ukrainian tech entrepreneur created a new startup from a Russian prison Read More

Ukrainian programmers have created an online browser game to help Ukraine fight Russian aggression. The game was created so that each ‘move’ brings Russian websites closer to being blocked: one player can send about 20,000 requests in one hour of play to block sites serving the Russian army.  The list of the targeted sites has not …

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On the second day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Daria Fedko left her house in a town near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv for a town about 200 km southeast. From there, the co-founder and CEO of WE/AR Studio, an AR and VR developer, is trying to keep in touch with her 27 employees to ensure …

A Ukrainian AR/VR founder’s call for support Read More

The leadership team at customer success startup Totango was monitoring the tensions between Russia and Ukraine for several weeks. About two weeks ago, they offered to relocate their small Ukrainian team to Tel Aviv, where Totango has engineering operations.  Instead, most of its employees chose to stay.  “The team initially preferred to stay put and wait and …

This startup offered to relocate its Ukrainian employees. They chose to stay. Read More

China has stuck to its position of refusing to call Russia’s military actions in Ukraine an “invasion” or condemn Moscow, but its people are taking to social media to express their feelings about the war. Over the past few days, Ukraine-related topics have become some of the top trending hashtags on Weibo, the bellwether for public discussion …

China’s social media giants remove ‘inappropriate’ Ukraine content Read More

Patreon says it’s suspended the crowdfunding page for “Come Back Alive,” a Ukrainian NGO that was collecting money to support the the country’s military in response to Russian aggression. In a statement given to CNBC, the platform said it “does not allow any campaigns involved in violence or purchasing of military equipment, regardless of their cause.” According to Come Back …

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