What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 1-6 of February 2022?
Available at: TechUkraine
R&D and new offices in Ukraine and globally
Ajax Systems keeps expanding in the South America market. After Chile, the company kicked-off in Argentina and the next country of the region will be Columbia – read
EPAM opened an office in Rivne. The company plans to attract over 100 tech specialists in the region – read
Venture capital and startups:
Cofounded by Ukrainians Aegiq lands seed investment to revolutionise trust in telecoms and computing with quantum photonics. Together, with existing funding from Innovate UK, the seed investment brings Aegiq’s total available funding to over £3.5m ($4.8m) – read
Cargofy, a logistics/freight tech startup hailing from Ukraine has raised $2 million in seed funding – read
Ukrainian legal startup that provides services for the automatic protection of intellectual property rights Lawyerd! was selected by Techstars Torino 2022 and got a $120,000 investment at a $3 million valuation – read
Ecosystem news:
Based on the presentation “How to pitch Ukrainian tech” made by TechUkraine in partnership with UNIT.City, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and many other stakeholders of the sphere, Ukrainian Tech Ecosystem Overview platform developed the landing page for the project and represented the overview of tech landscape of Ukraine – take a look
EU4DigitalUA, Dealroom, European Commission launched Eastern Partnership startup ecosystem platform – read
Several Ukrainian startups showcased their technologies at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, one of the world’s key tech expos with some 2,200 exhibitors: NECT, Recoshelf, Sorbsys, Time to Mashine, Wider Multivisor – read
Ukrainian Delfast Bikes was announced as The Fastest E-Bike 2022 by Forbes for the second year in a row – read
Ukrainian Raccoon.Recovery has been named one of 32 Top Rehabilitation Startups and Companies in Germany. The company is a digital physiotherapist that in 1 minute on the basis of the questionnaire will check your conditions and provide you with a training course – read
Kyiv-based Remme, an ecosystem of Identity and Access Management products with a digital key at its heart, named one of the top cybersecurity companies in Europe-2021 by British Threat.Technology – read
American University Kyiv opened its doors in the capital of Ukraine and will start offering undergraduate, graduate, and lifelong learning programs in the areas of IT and business management in 2022 – read
Mazepa Awards has announced longlisted contenders to win the investment awards and opened the voting. The organizers aim at honoring and rewarding people and companies that invest in Ukraine not only funds but also part of their lives – read
Column by Dominique Piotet, CEO of UNIT.City, is about his experience of 3-years working in Ukraine and why he stay in the country – read
Interview with Serhii Dubinevych, CEO and cofounder of the Ukrainian cleantech startup MaxAh that develops a technology for lithium power supplies using Ukrainian graphene – read
The Eastern European Paradox: How a Troubled Region Generated Unicorns and Decacorns in 2021, and What to Expect this Year – read
Government news
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted the National Security and Defense Council’s decision of December 30, 2021, “On the Plan for implementing the Cyber Security Strategy of Ukraine” – read
Specialists of the Security Service (SBU) Cyber Security Situation Center stopped and neutralized 121 cyber-attacks on government information systems in January 2022 – read
Last month, a new service to protect Ukrainians from fraud appeared in the Diia application – a credit history check notification. It helped to prevent more than 700 cases of fraud – read
Reports
Salaries of Ukrainian PM, HR, DevOps, Data Scientists, Winter 2022 by DOU – read
Salaries of Ukrainian QA specialists, Winter 2022 by DOU – read
Global M&A 2021 by Pitchbook – read
2021 Annual Information Security Report by Pitchbook – read
State Of Retail Tech 2021 Report by CBInsights – read
Via TechUkraine, Forbes, Tech.eu, BestStartup.eu, UADN, Crunchbase, CBInsights, Pitchbook, DOU, dev.ua, SPEKA, AIN, UBN, The Kyiv Independent, Ukrinform, KyivPost
