What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January 2021 (13-19.01)?

Venture capital and startups:

Ukrainian company airSlate (ex-PDFfiller) raised a $40 million round led by Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, General Catalyst, and Highsage Ventures. The total amount of $80 million in capital raised to date. – read

UK-based events booking platform Poptop Events, founded by Ukrainians Ignat Thorovsky and Eugene Shestopal, bags £440K in funding from existing investors, DSW Ventures and NorthStar Ventures – read

Israeli Playtika with 3 offices in Ukraine (Kyiv, Dnipro, Vinnytsya) skyrockets 34% after raising $1.88 billion in IPO. The share price exceeded the company’s initial targeted range of between $22 to $24, making the offering the largest Israeli IPO in history. – read

Ukrainian Max Levchin, CEO of the buy-now, pay-later fintech company Affirm, Inc. is fintech’s newest billionaire according to Forbes. He has an 11% stake in the company is now worth $2.7 billion (after raising $23.6 billion in IPO) – read

Ecosystem news:

6 Ukrainian tech companies were shortlisted in the rating the Best 50 employers in Ukraine by Forbes Ukraine and Work.ua – Intellias, DataArt, N-iX, SoftServe, EPAM Ukraine, GlobalLogic – read

Sustainable startup Greenbin.app, founded by Ukrainian, was shortlisted in the top 20 of this year’s Green Alley Award. Previously the team won the title of StartupOfTheYear within Virtual PowerUp! Country Final Poland – the biggest competition for start-ups in Central and Eastern Europe whose products in the fields of energy, smart technologies, mobility are solving today’s problems with tomorrow’s technology. – read

Ukrainian startup 3DLOOK was featured by VOGUE’s as one of the leading fashion tech companies that are transforming the apparel industry – read

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law №3014 “On Electronic Communications”, adopted by the Verkhovna Rada on December 16, 2020, which is designed to regulate market relations – between the state, service providers, and users, and also bring Ukraine closer to European standards in the field of electronic communications. – read

The Ministry of International Affairs and the Ukrainian Institute launched portal Ukraine.ua about talented people, spectacular nature, an original culture, and undiscovered treasures. The site shows opportunities for exploring, studying, and investing in Ukraine – discover

Ukrainian railway monopoly Ukrzaliznytsia has launched a chatbot to service its customers via popular mobile messenger apps: Viber, Telegram – read

Reports:

Overview 2020: Ukrainian Tech Ecosystem on the road ahead – read

Salaries of Ukrainian testers by DOU (winter 2021) – read

European Unicorns by Benedict Evans – read
Via TechUkraine, Forbes, UKTN, TechCrunch, BusinessInsider, KyivPost, DOU

What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January 2021 (13-19.01)?