What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 23-27 August 2021?
Available at: TechUkraine
R&D, new offices in Ukraine
For the last half-year international tech giants continue to open the R&Ds in Ukraine: BlaBlaCar, Glovo, Globality, Lyft, CognitOps. Even now Ukraine is home to more than 110 R&D centers for global tech giants including Microsoft, Samsung Electronics, Apple, Skype, IBM, The Boeing Company, Ericsson, Siemens, Oracle, Magento, Wargaming.net League, and Ubisoft just to name a few – read
Venture capital and startups:
A Boston-based DataRobot, with offices in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Odesa and Khmelnytskyi, raised $300 MLN investments at value of $6,3 BLN. DataRobots works with global brands, like Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India, Airbnb, United Airlines, Panasonic, and others – read
The USA knowledge management startup Shelf.io, with development center and product team in Lviv, raised a $52.5 million Series B led by Tiger Global and Insight Partners – read
Winners of the 29th USF Pitch day: The Great Catalog, Real Talk Sport, Elai, MAGBULB, IDvizer – read
Ecosystem news:
Ukraine has already become the world’s first country that legalized digital passports: starting on Aug. 23, all Ukrainian institutions are obliged to accept personal IDs shown through the Diia app – read
The list of the Ukrainian tech products that already conquering the world: Ajax Systems Petcube, UGEARS Mechanical Models, Grammarly, BetterMe: Health & Fitness, People.ai, Jooble, MacPaw, SHERP, and others – read
Global co-founder of IT-product businesses Genesis, together with Facebook, launches StartUp Academy — an international academy for founders of technology startups and their teams from Central and Eastern Europe – read
Ukrainian Vera Platonova, Senior Vice President SEE CIS Visa, was selected as the finalist at THE FUTURE OF Emerging Europe AWARDS 2021 in the category Female Business Leader of the Year – read
The CEO of the Taibah Valley investment campaign Abdulrahman Alolayan and one of the leaders of the national investment program “Saudi Vision 2030”, visited Ukraine. Saudi Arabians interested in Ukrainian startups, looking for profitable and innovative areas for investment – read
The Independent 30 project reveals the formation and development of the modern Ukrainian nation through the stories of famous Ukrainians. Tech industry is represented by well-known Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Petcube, and Dima Shvets, Reface – read
On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the proclamation of Ukraine’s Independence, cool overview of the most significant achievements, people, places of Ukraine and, of course, Ukrainian technologies – read
Due to arrangements with Germany, EUR 150 million have to be directed to support small and medium-sized businesses according to the program to reduce the cost of loans for SMEs “Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% – read
Reports:
The Future According To SoftBank – read
Introducing Snapchat Trends by Forbes – read
Via TechUkraine, TechCrunch, Forbes, AIN, DOU, dev.ua
