What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 22-28 of November 2021?
Available at: TechUkraine
R&D, new offices in Ukraine
Chinese mobility technology platform DiDi registered the trademark in Ukraine. Known as China’s Uber, the company offers a wide range of app-based services across Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, as well as in Central Asia and Russia – read
Grid Dynamics will open the 4th office in Ukraine. The R&D will be based in Dnipro. In 2020, Grid Dynamics acquired Daxx – read
Venture capital and startups:
Verbit.ai with office in Kyiv lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million – read
Cashflow management startup Settle with an office in Lviv has raised $60M in Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Caffeinated Capital, Activant Capital and Stripes – read
Ukraine’s wearable transcribing device Skripter raises $111,000 on Kickstarter. Its developer, the Ukrainian startup Senstone, has raised money by 748 Kickstarter backers as of Nov. 21, according to founder Nazar Fedorchuk – read
Ukrainian grocery delivery business Zakaz.ua has attracted $10 mln in investments over the ten-year period of its operations – read
Ukrainian Adventures Lab, and Elysium Venture Capital, Finsight Ventures, Digital Future, Joint Journey VC, and angels at Google and ServiceNow invested $1.2 Million in Narrative BI, no-code augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically turns raw data into actionable narratives – read
Ecosystem news:
On November 18, the space agencies of Ukraine and Canada signed a joint statement of partnership in Halifax Canada. Both sides laid the first stone of the space launch complex – read
DOU represented the TOP 28 Ukrainian GameDev companies. The biggest are Playrix, Ubisoft, Plarium, Gameloft, Wargaming – read
Ukrainian professional esports athlete Olexandr Kostylev, 24, has become the gaming champion of the world at the prestigious Esports Awards – read
German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has signed a launch contract inked at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen with Ukraine-based Lunar Research Service (LRS) for launch of of its RFA One rocket research mission – read
The well-known telemedicine service application Doctor Online and the recently launched LeoDoc project are united under one business structure, the American company LeoMed Inc – read
Ukrainian Maksym Kovalenko, the science star in one of the world-renowned ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, is named the influencer of the year and honored as “Highly Cited Researchers” – read
Ukrainian e-bike company Delfast presented the concept of the legendary Dnepr model bike – designed to rethink the understanding of e-power
Ukrainian fintech giant Monobank celebrates 4th anniversary – key achievements of neobank by CEO Oleg Gorokhovskyi – read
10 Ukrainian impact startups presented the projects at the Startup Pitсh Session at the 9th Sweden-Ukraine Business Forum – read
Key takeaways of the AI HOUSE CONFERENCE that brought together the world-renowned experts of AI and ML fields in Kyiv – read
The case study of creation the Ukrainian online university of real professions Choice31 – read
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine announced the creation of the Special Fund for the development of aviation and railway infrastructure, the resource of which can be used, including for the construction and modernization of airport infrastructure. It will be recalled that Ukraine is currently actively implementing a program to modernize regional airports, in particular, construction work is underway at the airports of Dnipro, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Kherson, Rivne, Kryvyi Rih, Kyiv and Uzhhorod. In addition, a new airport in Zakarpattia is being designed – read
Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna met with a delegation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and discussed the implementation of current cooperation projects with the EBRD, as well as prospects for further cooperation in the context of supporting by Ukraine of the implementation of the European Green Deal and the fulfillment of commitments to reduce carbon emissions – read
Reports
2021 CIO Study: The CIO Revolution by IBM – read
Sustainability Report 2019-2020 by SoftServe – read
Via TechUkraine, SpaceNews, TechCrunch, DOU, dev.ua, SPEKA, AIN, UBN, The Kyiv Independent
