What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in January-February 2021 (26.01-2.02)?

Available at: TechUkraine

Venture capital and startups: 

AI-powered tool for Real Estate Developers and Agents Propertymate, founded by Ukrainians, has raised $1 mln by Pragmatech Ventures. It plans to use the investment to expand the startup in two other US cities. – read

Augmented Pixels, a Ukrainian company that develops a proprietary simultaneous localization and 3d mapping technology, has closed a $2 million funding, a total of $7 million in investments since 2015. The company plans to use the funds raised for the expansion of the team based in the United States and for innovative researches and developments – read

Ukrainian television manufacture company headquartered in Kyiv KIVI raises $13 million from Shenzhen MTC in China to develop a new smart TV rang – read

Ukrainian startup Raccoon.Recovery, a goal-oriented physical rehabilitation tool based on video gaming, Big Data, and AI, has raised 660K euro from the EU program Fast Track to Innovation – read

Ukrainian HR-tech startup Hirio raises around €330K pre-seed funding on its way to automating hiring, led by Pipedrive unicorn founders. The founders decided to raise money to grow more aggressively on the international markets  – read

Ukrainian e-bikes company Delfast launches the crowdfunding campaign with the goal to raise $3 million on Fundable, the largest crowdfunding platform helping small businesses raise capital – read

Ukrainian AdTech startup Choizy, a career guidance app with artificial intelligence for both generation Z and Y, raised investments from Ukrainian business-angel. The amount of the deal is not disclosed – read

Firefly Aerospace Inc, a US rocket and space company, with deep Ukrainian roots, plans to raise $350 million to scale up production and work on a medium-class launch vehicle. During an IPO Edge webinar on Jan. 26 about investment in the space industry, Tom Markusic, chief executive of Firefly Aerospace, said the funding the company is trying to raise will support its long-term growth as it brings its Alpha launch vehicle into service and develops a medium-class launch vehicle, Beta – read

Ecosystem news:

Ukraine is up 2 positions and is in TOP30 according to the Global Cities Ranking of Startup Ecosystem represented yesterday by StartupBlink which ranks the startup ecosystems of 100 countries and 1000 cities – read

Ukrainian SpaceTech team based in Dnipro FireWay has received the NASA – National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s award and nomination the Best Use of Technology – the solution that exemplifies the most innovative use of technology – read

GitLab, a DevOps platform with Dutch and Ukrainian co-founders incorporated in the US, is among 30+ European tech companies most likely to go public this year by Tech.eu – read

Poland vs Ukraine: Software Development Industry Comparison. Major Benefits of Working with Ukrainian Software Development Companies – Daxx’s overview: fewer R&D offices of tech giants, high-level Ukrainian programmers with experience in providing software development services, and save 30% of the total development cost without sacrificing the quality of code – read

From September 1, public authorities will not have the right to require paper documents for the provision of services, if this information is already included in the register announced by Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov. The Minister noted that the Ministry of Digital Transformation is doing everything in the technical plane so that each official has the opportunity to easily find information in the registers – read

Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture and the German Embassy have agreed on cooperation in the employment sector (in particular, seasonal workers in agriculture) – read

Reports:

Tech M&A report 2020 by Capital Times – read

Via TechUkraine, Liga, Vector, AIN. Tech.eu, EU-startups, Space News