What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January 2021 (19-26.01)?

R&D and new offices in Ukraine

London-based digital banking service Revolut, co-founded by Ukrainian Vladyslav Yatsenko, plans to open an R&D office in Ukraine seeking engineers, developers, and recruiters. – read

American ride-sharing company Lyft is looking for tech stuff in Ukraine. Previously Novoye Vremya reposted that Lyft has already registered a legal entity in Ukraine. The company is called Lyft Ukraine LLC and is run by Vitalii Zadorozhnyi. – read

Belorussian custom software development company SoftTeco is opening a new development center in Ukraine. The company is actively hiring developers and planning to hire about 30 tech specialists for the Ukrainian office this year – read

Ukrainian manufacturer of smart security systems Ajax Systems expands its geography and opens its third R&D office in Vinnytsia. It is planned to gather a full-fledged team (8-10 specialists) in Vinnytsia for developing new Ajax security devices independently of Kyiv and Kharkiv offices. – read

Venture capital and startups:

Ukrainian Startup Fund announced the winners of the 20th Pitch Day – 5 startups on a pre-seed stage will receive $25,000 grants – OSBB Online, ComeBack Mobility, obimy, LineBar, MindSelf – read

IdeaSoft, a Kharkiv-based IT consulting company, has become a part of Swedish-Ukrainian software company Sigma Software Group, while securing its identity, structure, and approaches – read

Ecosystem news:

Four Ukrainian companies were featured in Golden Kitty Awards 2020 by Product Hunt: Petcube, IOON, Reface, MacPaw – read

Ukrainian tech companies – Sensorama Lab, SoftServe, EverScan – digitilized national history and providing DepthKit, 3D, VR/AR, CAD, etc. services to preserve the heritage objects – read

Ukrainian cybersport team Natus Vincere – NaVI is the champions of the European tournament BLAST Premier: Global Final and earning $ 600,000 for their performance – read

Ukrainian unicorn Grammarly, an AI-based writing assistant that helps write clearly and effectively, has presented the first annotated GEC (Grammatical Error Correction) dataset for the Ukrainian language which helps to speed up the development of voice assistants and online systems for correcting grammar in the Ukrainian language; increase the number of open tools for NLP learning of Ukrainian – read

Ukrainian creative agency Port.agency launched the first art marketplace Hypermarket of Culture – an e-commerce platform for art institutions and artists to simply upload creative products (events, services, etc), promote and sell them, reaching&engaging the audience online, and generating creative experiences. The project became one of the winners of the hackathon Hack The Culture by House of Europe – creative digital solutions for the cultural sector in pandemic times – read

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

Vitaliy Goncharuk, the head of Ukraine’s Expert Committee on AI Development, wrote the column for Atlantic Council UkraineAlert about the potential and perspective of the AI technology in Ukraine: Ukraine’s new Development Strategy aims to embed AI technologies in every aspect of the country’s development. It seeks to reform the education system in order to provide the next generation of Ukrainian tech companies with the AI talent and qualified human capital necessary to drive the country forward – read

As part of a joint project, the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources in synergy with Google Ukraine have created virtual tourist routes and panoramas for 10 more national nature parks in Ukraine. Everyone can make an extraordinary virtual journey along ecological trails, river routes, visit the Rocks of Dovbush or Dead Lake, Buk (Beech – ed.) Spring or St. Nicholas Estate – read

The Government supported the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture to train unemployed Kyiv residents in IT specialties. The proposed tool will allow meeting part of the needs of Ukrainian IT companies in qualified specialists. And Ukrainians who have lost their jobs will study prestigious IT specialties – read

Reports:

2021: The year of Deep Tech by Dealroom – read

Startup Megadeals: The Biggest Raises of 2021 So Far by Beauhurst – read

The State of Fintech in Europe: report (January 2021) by Tech.eu and Finstar – read

Via TechUkraine, Liga, Vector, AIN

What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January 2021 (19-26.01)?