What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January-February 2021 (2-9.02)?

Venture capital and startups:

Ukrainian cybersecurity project ELECTRON (rEsilient and seLf-healed EleCTRical pOwer Nanogrid) was selected and won $10 mln by Grant Management Services of the European Commission within the contest “Cybersecurity in the Electrical Power and Energy System (EPES): an armour against cyber and privacy attacks and data breaches” – read

NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023. The delivery, planned for Mare Crisium, a low-lying basin on the Moon’s near side, will investigate a variety of lunar surface conditions and resources. Such investigations will help prepare for human missions to the lunar surface – read

Ajax Systems, a smart security systems developer, has acquired the engineering team of Concepter, a design and product development studio. The Concepter developers will become members of various R&D teams at Ajax Systems and will work on new devices – read

Ecosystem news:

СЕО Support Your App Daria Leshchenko became the first Ukrainian who won the nomination Woman of the Year in Customer Service by 15th annual international business The Stevie Awards – read

Ukrainian company Murka is among the top 30 EMEA headquartered publishers by App Annie. After joining the US investment giant Blackstone Group in 2019, Murka finished 2020 with a record revenue growth of +30%, increased its market share, and is now one of the top 10 global leaders in the social casino games genre – read

Interview with Vlad Greziev, one of the initiators of the first Ukrainian club on Clubhouse – Ukrainian House on Clubhouse, about buzzing social media and the voice of Ukrainian tech on the global stage – read

CEO of UNIT.City Dominique Piotet talked to Yura Lazebnikov, a managing partner of esports media holding company WePlay Esports, and discussed trends in esports, spectacular tournaments, earnings of top-ranking players, and Ukraine’s advantages in terms of esports – read

Interview with Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister with Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation for a Made in Ukraine Tech Startup Edition podcast about Ministry programs designed to fully digitize every day administrative government tasks like getting a driver’s license, registering a newborn baby, setting up a corporation, obtaining a passport, etc. using a smartphone as the tool. Featured project – a special legal framework for the IT industry – Diia City – listen

Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine Oleh Uruskyy held a meeting on the creation of Ukrainian remote sensing satellites with high resolution with major spacecraft developers and customers of satellite services – the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and SE “CB “Pivdenne” – read

Reports:

Ukrainian Tech M&A report 2020 by Capital Times – read

European M&A Report by PitchBook – read

Via TechUkraine, Liga, Vector, AIN, Space News

What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January-February 2021 (2-9.02)?