What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market during 12-16 of April 2021?
Available at: TechUkraine
R&D, new offices in Ukraine
Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia Glovo will open an R&D center in Ukraine. The company announced a new position in Kyiv – Director of Engineering who will gather the engineering team – read
Venture capital and startups:
Ukrainian eco toothbrush effa has raised $500 000 from an angel investor with the estimation of $3,5 mln. Last year the team has become a part of the First Sustainability Batch of the Startup Wise Guys Accelerator – read
Ukrainian-American Firefly Research has been selected to receive a NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration contract to support the development of a revolutionary new spacecraft called the Space Utility Vehicle (SUV) – read
Ukrainian delivery service Rocket is scaling up in the EU and launching the second spot in Amsterdam, Netherlands. At the end of 2020, the company announced a rebranding for going global and has started the EU expansion from Nikosia, Cyprus – read
Ecosystem news:
According to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine, the number of Individual entrepreneurs working in the IT sector of Ukraine is 212 547, the growth is +29 111 or 16% per year. The fastest increase is in Zakarpattya, Odesa, Rivne, and Zaporizhzhya regions – over 20% – read
TechUkraine, MFA of Ukraine, Ministry of digital transformation has launched the month of Innovation on Ukraine.ua – #UAInnovative: an overview of the ecosystem, buzzing startups, digitalization. A series of materials is aimed at English-speaking readers – potential investors in the Ukrainian IT sector, foreign politicians, and all those who have been waiting for a chance to learn more about business and technology in Ukraine – read
Ukrainian e-bikes Delfast is among 10 rocketing European startups boosting the home delivery sector. In 2021, the startup ran a crowdfunding campaign, landing €2.8 million to localize its e-bike manufacture and speed up delivery – read
Interview with Ajax Systems’ CEO, Aleksandr Konotopskyi for EU-Startups: Ajax has now over 900,000 users in 120 countries across the globe and is recognized as an award-winning wireless security system in Europe. It has over 1,600 employees on board, doubling in staff size from 2019 to 2020. In 2019, it attracted over €8.4 million from Horizon Capital to ramp up global expansion and it previously received €840K million from the SMRK venture fund in 2015. This month Ajax was included in the list of 30 Best Startups by Forbes Ukraine, in 3rd place after Gitlab and Grammarly – read
Interview with Nick Oseyko, CEO of Carbominer, a Ukrainian hardware startup that is developing innovative technology to capture CO₂ from the air, by American journalist Michael Buryk – read
Vitaly Sedler, President of the IТ Ukraine Association, held an online meeting with journalists to discuss the IT development trends in Ukraine and the world, achievements. and challenges of the Ukrainian tech industry, as well as a special legal regime Diia City – read
The UK has always been one of Ukraine’s biggest partners: in 2019 trade between the UK and Ukraine was worth 1.5 billion UK pounds. Sigma Software Group, with the support of the USAID Competitive Ukraine Programme aimed to strengthen business connections and to find new opportunities between the two countries – read
KyivPost wrote that Ukraine has the potential to become ‘mecca for esports’ if infrastructure improves. Today the esport is booming in Ukraine and for attracting investment to the sphere should be developing the current facilities. Current spots in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro: WePlay Esports arena, Windigo Arena, Zeus Arena, Dnipro Hotel – read
Ukrainian Artefact art-project presented the first official mobile app Chernobyl App with AR technology – a full-fledged information resource on the history of Chernobyl and the current state of the Exclusion Zone includes practical information for travelers and AR portals that allow users to visit Chernobyl remotely from anywhere in the world – read
Discovery Drilling Equipment (DDE) is one of the biggest global machine-building companies of drilling rigs production based in Ukraine. DDE’s innovative products work on 5 continents for global leading drilling contractors and oil companies: Shell, bp, Chevron, WDI, Petroleum Development Oman – PDO, and many others – read
On April 14, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine supports the ratification of the Agreement on Financial Cooperation between the Governments of Ukraine and Germany to boost bilateral investment projects and grants – read
15 April, Verkhovna Rada adopted as a basis the draft Law No. 4303 “On Stimulating the Development of Digital Economy in Ukraine”. The draft law provides for the introduction of a number of measures to stimulate the development of the digital economy in Ukraine: a special regime of taxation of residents of the ‘Diia City’ in accordance with tax legislation; remuneration paid by residents of the ‘Diia City’ to persons whose work they use, in accordance with tax legislation; the possibility of choosing a contractual form of employment contract in the registration of employment relations between residents of the ‘Diia City’ and their employees, etc. – read
Reports:
The number of IT specialists in Ukraine by DOU – read
Via TechUkraine, Liga, AIN, DOU, KyivPost, Emerging Europe, Ukraine.ua, EU-Startups, IT Ukraine Association
