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25 oct
  • Facebook sues Ukrainian — accusing him of collecting and selling data of 178M users
  • German startup vs. Google — Is it worth watching The Billion Dollar Code series?
  • Payoneer: Income of Ukrainian IT businesses from foreign clients grew by 29%
  • Belarusian game developer Appsulove opens an office in Kyiv
  • From an online store to a marketplace — the 5 stages of e-commerce
  • New rules for entering Ukraine for foreigners and Ukrainians: unvaccinated people must install the Vdoma app
  • GitLab's market value following the IPO is $15B. Its co-founder, Dmytro Zaporozhets, now has an estimated wealth of $384M
  • BlaBlaCar has eight million users in Ukraine, with one million monthly active riders
  • Aristocrat acquires Playtech, an online gaming software supplier with an office in Kyiv, for $3.7 billion
  • To love and understand data: Who are Data Engineers and how do they grow?
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Editor's Choice

Revenue Grid closes $20M Series A, plans to expand Ukrainian office

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket launches into space

First Ukrainian neobank — monobank — is only three years old. Is it really worth over $1B?

Ahrefs creates a search engine and has already invested $40M in it

Editor's Choice

Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket launches into space

Revenue Grid closes $20M Series A, plans to expand Ukrainian office

First Ukrainian neobank — monobank — is only three years old. Is it really worth over $1B?

Ahrefs creates a search engine and has already invested $40M in it

Investments
  • Ukrainian startup Party.Space raises $1M from TA Ventures, ICLUB, and Day One Capital

  • Ukrainian startup Party.Space raises $1M from TA Ventures, ICLUB, and Day One Capital
  • Choice QR closes a €700,000 pre-seed round
  • Ukrainian-American startup Outloud.ai raises funds from Digital Future
  • Ukrainian Datrics raises funds from YCombinator
  • Field Complete, a startup with an office in Ukraine, raises $1.9 million
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Investments
  • Ukrainian startup Party.Space raises $1M from TA Ventures, ICLUB, and Day One Capital

  • Ukrainian startup Party.Space raises $1M from TA Ventures, ICLUB, and Day One Capital
  • Choice QR closes a €700,000 pre-seed round
  • Ukrainian-American startup Outloud.ai raises funds from Digital Future
  • Ukrainian Datrics raises funds from YCombinator
  • Field Complete, a startup with an office in Ukraine, raises $1.9 million
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Startups
  • IT Arena announces winners of Startup Competition 2021

  • IT Arena announces winners of Startup Competition 2021
  • Ten Ukrainian startups receive 350k from the Ukrainian Startup Fund
  • Ukrainian NIXOID Lab raises over $364k for tube wristwatches
  • Petcube releases a new smart camera for pets, Petcube Bites 2 Lite
  • SolarGaps is an incredibly complex project”: what’s going on with the startup
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Features
  • From an online store to a marketplace — the 5 stages of e-commerce

  • From an online store to a marketplace — the 5 stages of e-commerce
  • Story of bird, an apartment rental app with 50,000 users per month
  • Ahrefs creates a search engine and has already invested $40M in it
  • Nuka raises $400k for «eternal stationery» but does not release the product. What's going on at the startup?
  • Glimpse inside the office and working conditions of MacPaw — developer of CleanMyMac and SetApp
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  • Business
  • Success Stories

Ukrainian company Ajax Systems plans an IPO

SolarGaps is an incredibly complex project”: what’s going on with the startup

American accuses an employee of stealing $200,000 from his Ukrainian business. Employee denies allegations

68 Ukrainian companies included in the ranking of the world's best IT outsourcing companies

Universal Hydrogen, founded by a Ukrainian, raises $20.5M. It develops hydrogen storage solutions

1,800 employees across two factories. How Ajax Systems creates security systems – a photo essay

How we sold eco-friendly paper toothbrushes to Netflix and Marriott: Case of Effa startup

Ukrainian single-handedly creates Photopea, “free Photoshop,” and makes $1M per year

How to build Europe's largest esports agency: Interview with Vitalii 'V1lat' Volochai, Maincast co-founder

“I spent my first night in the Valley sleeping in the car on a hill in thick fog.” Interview with Ukrainian who sold his product to Binance

Startups
  • IT Arena announces winners of Startup Competition 2021

  • IT Arena announces winners of Startup Competition 2021
  • Ten Ukrainian startups receive 350k from the Ukrainian Startup Fund
  • Ukrainian NIXOID Lab raises over $364k for tube wristwatches
  • Petcube releases a new smart camera for pets, Petcube Bites 2 Lite
  • SolarGaps is an incredibly complex project”: what’s going on with the startup
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Deals
  • Aristocrat acquires Playtech, an online gaming software supplier with an office in Kyiv, for $3.7 billion

  • Aristocrat acquires Playtech, an online gaming software supplier with an office in Kyiv, for $3.7 billion
  • Scopely acquires GSN Games from Sony for $1B
  • Kyivstar may acquire Datagroup for $100 million, according to media sources
  • US company Virtuozzo acquires the Ukrainian company Jelastic
  • Firefly Aerospace signs a $30M deal
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Researches
  • Payoneer: Income of Ukrainian IT businesses from foreign clients grew by 29%

  • Payoneer: Income of Ukrainian IT businesses from foreign clients grew by 29%
  • Ukraine ranks 77th in the global Internet speed ranking. Jersey tops the list
  • Kharkiv IT industry research: $1.5B market, 500 companies, and 45,000 professionals
  • EPAM, SoftServe, and GlobalLogic top the list of Ukraine's 50 largest IT companies
  • 44.4% would take pay cut to continue working from home — AIN.UA poll
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Interviews
  • "Ukraine is an undiscovered secret": an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv

  • «Ukraine is an undiscovered secret»: an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv
  • “There will be a good exit, and we add some new millionaires in Ukraine,” said Vlad Voskresensky, Revenue Grid
  • “It was our last pre-IPO round” — Interview with Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of new Ukrainian unicorn — People.ai
  • Relocated to Los Angeles and became Snap's design director: Interview with Lidiya Bogdanovich
  • How to build Europe's largest esports agency: Interview with Vitalii 'V1lat' Volochai, Maincast co-founder
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  • Relocate
  • Scams and Scandals

“There were no rose-colored glasses”: how a Ukrainian frontend programmer relocated in Amsterdam

How Ukrainian became World Bank’s first programmer in Washington DC, declined $167,000 offer from Amazon, and launched her own startup

A Ukrainian who programs Falcon: Oleksii Pakhunov, senior flight software engineer at SpaceX

Ukrainian law enforcers uncover the "largest mining farm" that turns out to be a legal IT company

Ukrainian generates Xbox gift cards for $10M and sells them on eBay - the story of a big scam

Ukrainian company Everad heads massive scam selling fake dietary supplements in Europe

Features
  • From an online store to a marketplace — the 5 stages of e-commerce

  • From an online store to a marketplace — the 5 stages of e-commerce
  • Story of bird, an apartment rental app with 50,000 users per month
  • Ahrefs creates a search engine and has already invested $40M in it
  • Nuka raises $400k for «eternal stationery» but does not release the product. What's going on at the startup?
  • Glimpse inside the office and working conditions of MacPaw — developer of CleanMyMac and SetApp
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Laws
  • Gains on cryptocurrencies in Ukraine to be taxed at 5% – a new bill

  • Gains on cryptocurrencies in Ukraine to be taxed at 5% – a new bill
  • Ukraine passes a law against sexism in advertising. What will change?
  • Ukraine to legalize cryptocurrencies. Virtual assets bill passes its second reading
  • Ukrainian parliament votes for a special IT industry regime, known as Diia City. So far, the bill has passed the first reading
  • Owners of foreign companies (CFCs) to report on them from January 1: rule postponed
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Crowdfunding
  • Ukrainian NIXOID Lab raises over $364k for tube wristwatches

  • Ukrainian NIXOID Lab raises over $364k for tube wristwatches
  • Ukrainian Company Air Metal Detector raises $76k on Kickstarter, fails to supply products. What's going on
  • Rentberry, founded by Ukrainians, raises $2.5M on WeFunder
  • Ukrainian startup nect WORLD raises $262k, which is 875% of the initial goal
  • Ukrainian startup nect WORLD launches Indiegogo campaign and reaches its funding goal in 5 days
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USA
  • GitLab is targeting a $10 billion IPO valuation

  • GitLab is targeting a $10 billion IPO valuation
  • US company Virtuozzo acquires the Ukrainian company Jelastic
  • «Ukraine is an undiscovered secret»: an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv
  • Ukrainian-American startup Outloud.ai raises funds from Digital Future
  • Field Complete, a startup with an office in Ukraine, raises $1.9 million
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  • Startups
  • IT-Offices

Ukrainian startup ComeBack Mobility secures $1 million to develop smart crutch tips

Onlizer, Ukrainian cloud platform for business automation, raises $500k

Startup Zerion, co-founded by Ukrainian, raises $8.2 million

Ukrainian-Estonian startup Recoshelf secures €100,000 investment

Neurotrack.tech measures user reaction to ads and music via neuromarketing. This is how it works

GameDev studio Product Madness opens a new R&D office in Lviv designed for 200 people

Facebook sues Ukrainian — accusing him of collecting and selling data of 178M users

Facebook sues Ukrainian — accusing him of collecting and selling data of 178M users

Ranking of the fastest-growing and sustained-growth B2B providers includes twelve Ukrainian IT companies

Slovak IT company Vacuumlabs enters Ukrainian market. It plans to hire over 100 Middle and Senior professionals

Deals
  • Aristocrat acquires Playtech, an online gaming software supplier with an office in Kyiv, for $3.7 billion

  • Aristocrat acquires Playtech, an online gaming software supplier with an office in Kyiv, for $3.7 billion
  • Scopely acquires GSN Games from Sony for $1B
  • Kyivstar may acquire Datagroup for $100 million, according to media sources
  • US company Virtuozzo acquires the Ukrainian company Jelastic
  • Firefly Aerospace signs a $30M deal
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Researches
  • Payoneer: Income of Ukrainian IT businesses from foreign clients grew by 29%

  • Payoneer: Income of Ukrainian IT businesses from foreign clients grew by 29%
  • Ukraine ranks 77th in the global Internet speed ranking. Jersey tops the list
  • Kharkiv IT industry research: $1.5B market, 500 companies, and 45,000 professionals
  • EPAM, SoftServe, and GlobalLogic top the list of Ukraine's 50 largest IT companies
  • 44.4% would take pay cut to continue working from home — AIN.UA poll
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Interviews
  • "Ukraine is an undiscovered secret": an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv

  • «Ukraine is an undiscovered secret»: an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv
  • “There will be a good exit, and we add some new millionaires in Ukraine,” said Vlad Voskresensky, Revenue Grid
  • “It was our last pre-IPO round” — Interview with Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of new Ukrainian unicorn — People.ai
  • Relocated to Los Angeles and became Snap's design director: Interview with Lidiya Bogdanovich
  • How to build Europe's largest esports agency: Interview with Vitalii 'V1lat' Volochai, Maincast co-founder
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Ukrainians in USA
  • GitLab is targeting a $10 billion IPO valuation

  • GitLab is targeting a $10 billion IPO valuation
  • US company Virtuozzo acquires the Ukrainian company Jelastic
  • «Ukraine is an undiscovered secret»: an interview with CTO of Shelf, a startup that recently raised 52.5M, about business in Lviv
  • Ukrainian-American startup Outloud.ai raises funds from Digital Future
  • Field Complete, a startup with an office in Ukraine, raises $1.9 million
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Ukrainians in Estonia
  • Bolt Food couriers in Kyiv protest their work conditions

  • Bolt Food couriers in Kyiv protest their work conditions
  • Ragnar Sass, angel investor and founder of Pipedrive, asks himself 24 questions before investing in a startup
  • Estonian 99math raises $1M from Ukrainian Genesis Investments
  • Bolt raises $713M funding at $4.75B valuation
  • Ukrainian e-gov service Diia to be translated into English as part of a €25M project
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