What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 8-14 of November 2021?

R&D, new offices in Ukraine

The Swedish company Velory, which provides businesses with services in the field of productivity, will open an R&D office in Ukraine – read

Nets A/S, a Denmark-based company that is engaged in providing payment services and related technology solutions across the Nordic region, will open the office in Ukraine – read

EPAM will open a new office in Ukraine (Kyiv) by the end of 2021. According to the quarterly financial report, the company will buy working space estimated $35 mln – read

Playrix will open new office in Kharkiv after acquiring the gamedev studio Daily Magic – read

Venture capital and startups:

Founded by Ukrainian Alex Gluchowski Matter Labs, the company behind zkSync, an Ethereum Layer 2 scaling protocol, announced $50M in new funding in addition to $6 MLN raised at Series A in February this year – read

Ukrainian crypto ML startup Global Ledger has recently expanded to the global market by signing a strategic M&A partnership with Promethiem AG, a Swiss FinTech group, with secured funding of $3.5 MLN – read

Ukrainian startup Mate academy raised $1,9 MLN investments from cofounders of Wise (Transferwise), TelePort, Pipedrive, Bolt as well as Ukrainian Horizon Capital in addition to the round of 2019 by TAVentures and Flyer One Ventures – read

Latvia-based startup founded by a Ukrainian Roman Bysko Meredot, developing wireless charging stations for electric scooters, has raised $350,000 in a seed round from Ukrainian Overkill Ventures and Oleksandr Kryvoruchko – read

Ecosystem news:

Forbes Ukraine presented the 30 under 30 list of the most successful Ukrainian young entrepreneurs. Among the categories there the stars of the IT business – read

20 Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs were featured in TOP 100 richest Ukrainians according to НВ – read

Ukrainian cyber sport team NAVI Natus Vincere became the champions of the PGL Major Stockholm 2021: NAVI won the championship CS:GO with a 2 : 0 victory over G2 Esports in the grand final, earning $ 1,000,000 for their performance – read

Ukrainian e-commerce giant founded by Vladyslav Chechotkin ROZETKA enters Uzbekystan starting from Tashkent and launching the portal Rozetka.uz – read

IT company SoftServe developed a web resource to promote lessons in Ukrainian language among teachers of after-school activities. The platform was created in cooperation with NGO “Teach in Ukrainian” – read

IТ Ukraine Association in partnership with Looqme and MZ Hub launched the second reputation research of Ukrainian IT companies – read

Ukrainian company FED JSC participates in the II International Defense and Aerospace Exhibition, SAHA EXPO 2021 in Istanbul, where presents a model of an impressive vertical takeoff and landing electro plane (e-VTOL), which FED is currently developing – read

The reportage of the international conference BlockchainUA – the biggest blockchain and crypto community event in Ukraine – read

Mayak Innovatsiy podcast by Dominique Piotet, CEO of UNIT.City,and Nicolas Brusson, CEO and co-founder of BlaBlaCar – listen

Reports

20 richest tech entrepreneurs of Ukraine 2021 by Center 42 – read

State Of Blockchain Q3’21 Report by CB Insights – read

Via TechUkraine, Forbes, DOU, dev.ua, NV, AIN, UBN

What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 8-14 of November 2021?