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Its’ mission is to create an environment that encourages students to explore modern problems and challenges as well as develop an entrepreneurial vision for the transformation of ideas into viable solutions, build a startup community of innovators Learn more Stanford Ignite Ukraine The CfE accelerator and the Stanford Graduate School of Business invite entrepreneurs from Ukraine to participate in the Stanford Ignite Ukraine program at one of the world’s best business schools. Learn more Meetups4Startups Meetups4Startups CfE Accelerator Accelerator for startups with a global mindset and an educational platform for starting entrepreneurs in Ukraine. CfE Accelerator Shaping Ukrainian Startup Culture News 25 Oct What is going on? 16 Mar Mentoring Roundabout 9 Mar How the first week of ideasLab did go? 7 Mar Network IQ Alliance page 1 Mar ideasLab Batch 3. is starting today! 24 Feb Why participation in the Accelerator is always a win-win situation? Team Dmytro Omelian Building IdeasLab Yuliia Dobosevych Junior Marketer Daryna Prydka Project coordinator Ivan Petrenko Executive Director at CfE Accelerator & Managing Partner at Angel One Fund Valeriia Fadieienko Business Analyst at Angel One Fund Sophia Opatska Vice-Rector for implementation of UCU strategy Mentors All mentors Hanna Bey Client Growth Partner у Qubstudio Roman Kozak Partner at Kohorta & Co-founder at Alfred Valeriia Fadieienko Senior Business Analyst at Angel One Fund Dmytro Lopushanskyy CTO & Co-Founder at Harmix Artem Horilyk Co-founder, CPO & Head of PV at DrugCard Nazar Ponochevnyi CEO at Harmix Dmytro Horilyk Co-founder & CEO at DrugCard Mykola Konrad Senior VP and Head of Product at Iconectiv Oleksiy Syvokon Principal Applied Scientist at Microsoft Marina Kovalska COO at EVA.ua Yurii Kostiv Product Manager at Softserve Yurii Kostiuchenko Chief Business Development Officer Inna Gordiienko Startup leader, ex-COO Fairoapp Igor Shapataiev Ex-СТО USF, Армія дронів та Brave1 Vasyl Stanislavchuk Founding Software Engineer at Medallion Maks Strukov Associate at Geek Ventures Oleh Tymoshenko Очолюю Product Design команду у стартап студії Zade Dima Foremnyi Генеральний партнер в Інвестиційній компанії 3х Capital, засновник Лігал Інновейшнз ГО, LLM (Tilburg) Iryna Chornovol Engineering Manager and Senior Team Leader with QA/AQA expertise in Techmagic.co and 10 years of experience in IT Olia Gozha Design Partner at Kohorta, Web & Product Designer Olena Kuzmichova CEO at “Self-ERP”, 18+ years experience in FinTech & IT Tetiana Slabko Юрист в tech-сфері, privacy counsel @Wargaming, партнер @Wtech Сlub Singapore Anna Zmiievska Creative business Anzy Home, consulting Anromind, former CMO Promin' (energy) Ivan Denysyuk CEO стартап-студії Zade, експерт USF, ментор та спікер Sergey Kudryashov UX→PM→CEO→VC Valeriy Kozlov Experienced tech ex-CEO & consultant, aiding B2B growth and data-informed decisions. Jane Davydiuk Fractional COO Ferents Milo CEO at ПРМЛ Taras Barshchovskyi Founder & CEO at MetaliX | Forbes NEXT 250 | Angel Investor & Advisor | IT Expert Oleksandr Korniychuk Founder and CEO at YARD Delivery inc Liza Lapina Operations Manager at BRISE Capital, PM of Product Clusters at Techosystem NGO Volodymyr Bazhan SVP Client Success at SoftServe Bohdana Muravska Комунікаційниця у Міністерстві фінансів України Oleksandra Tsymbal Founder of the Projects Laboratory CreatorsMatter Andrew Balyk Product Manager at Softserve Olesia Yedynak-Khoma Founder, CEO at Yedynka Digital Nazar Burban Co-Founder and CEO at Measurme Oleh Pankiv Co-founder, Chief Something Officer у Semicolon Lab Oksana Hera Community Expert at SoftServe Darya Sedykh Co-founder of ZEPS Sofia Vyshnevska Co-founder & COO at NewHomesMate (Propertymate) Tetyana Kuz Product Manager at Softserve Bohdan Kupych Vice President of Business Development Company КМ Core Hanna Bey Hanna is a Client Growth Partner у Qubstudio She was the Chief Customer Officer at Reenbit; She has more than seven years of experience in the IT industry and is engaged in establishing and maintaining trusting and successful relationships with clients; Will share how to build excellent organizational skills; Hanna will provide accurate advice on how to build a communication strategy with clients and within the team. × Roman Kozak Roman is a partner at Kohorta (themes, apps & more dev for the HubSpot platform) An entrepreneur who is a pro at product thinking Roman is a co-founder of Alfred The one who always thinks outside the box and will give the best advice! × Valeriia Fadieienko Senior Business Analyst at Angel One Fund × Dmytro Lopushanskyy CTO & Co-Founder at Harmix; Student at Oxford University; Student of UCU. × Artem Horilyk Artem is co-founder at DrugCard He is also a CPO & Head of PV at DrugCard Artem has 6+ years of experience in pharmacovigilance and Ph.D. degree focused on pharmaceuticals. He can help you with business processes, and legislation and will help your company to organize PhV activities in compliance with regulatory requirements. Artem knows everything about how to stay effective and beat competitors just by being the best on the market. × Nazar Ponochevnyi CEO at Harmix; CS PhD at the University of Toronto × Dmytro Horilyk Dmytro is co-founder and CEO of the DrugCard company; He has come a long way from an engineer to public work in NGOs, consulting pharmaceutical companies and state institutions to creating a startup in the pharmaceutical field; Dmytro together with DrugCard has come a long way from trying to create a business in Ukraine to understanding the global problem in the pharmacovigilance market, forming a unique offer, and entering the European market; In a year, they attracted about $400,000, about $100,000 ARR and they continue to grow; Gained unique experience in business development, customer-oriented b2b sales, strategic thinking, and product launch. × Mykola Konrad Senior VP and Head of Product at Iconectiv; B2B SaaS Product Manager for 25 years at companies like Microsoft, Panasonic, Allvue Systems × Oleksiy Syvokon Engaged in NLP, large language models, and ways to optimize them; Currently working at Microsoft on the Word Copilot project; Previously worked at Grammarly, DataRobot, and other companies; Teaches an NLP course at Lviv Polytechnic. × Marina Kovalska COO at EVA.ua; Founder at Littlepeope.com.ua × Yurii Kostiv 7+ years in product management (3 in a product company, 4 in outsourcing). A dozen discovery phases and product launches. Yurii can help with finding the right value proposition and answering the questions of WHAT and WHY the product should be made. × Yurii Kostiuchenko Serial entrepreneur. Over 10 years of experience in different business spheres. Was a co-owner of a small pub and cheesemaking factory. Was a co-owner of a small IT studio. Currently, Yuri is a co-owner of UBOS. Yuri has expertise in launching PaaS, and SaaS products, creating pitch decks, public speaking, product positioning, partner search, and more. × Inna Gordiienko Startup leader; Business coach; Ex-COO Fairoapp and Consors Finanz Austria; 18+ years in banks and fintechs. × Igor Shapataiev Ex-СТО USF, Армія дронів та Brave1 × Vasyl Stanislavchuk One of the first engineers at Medallion, where we raised $85M from Sequoia Capital and others. Vasyl has extensive experience tackling early-stage challenges in a fast-paced environment. Besides engineering, his journey includes conducting UX interviews, participating in sales, supporting customers, and analyzing feedback to iterate on innovative ideas and solutions quickly. × Maks Strukov – Associate at Geek Ventures, a Pre-Seed/Seed fund focused on US startups. – 4+ years of VC/PE experience. × Oleh Tymoshenko Маю досвід співпраці з різноманітними стартапами та численними запитами тривалістю у 4 роки. Наразі працюю над розвитком продукту американського BioTech стартапу NextNet × Dima Foremnyi Генеральний партнер в Інвестиційній компанії 3х Capital, засновник Лігал Інновейшнз ГО, LLM (Tilburg) × Iryna Chornovol Маю досвід роботи як в продуктовій так і аутсорсній компаніях – від позиції QA Engineer до Manager. Наразі працюю на проєкті, який деякий час назад був стартапом, а зараз цей продукт рекомендують такі компанії як SalesForce на свої івентах, як невідʼємну частина їхньої екосистеми. Маю можливість співпрацювати з різними командами на різних стадіях ідеї і розробки, і також впроваджувати зміни, і процеси на проєкті як технічні так і управлінські. Також є менторкою на Projector Mentorship Platform і приймала участь в волонтерській програмі від Projector Foundation, де проводила менторські сесії для студентів, які навчалися на курсі «Software testing». В компанії TechMagic є постійною QA Tech Leader і Mentor в освітній академії на QA курсі. – https://www.linkedin.com/in/iryna-chornovol-26159999/ – https://www.prjctrmentor.com/mentor/iryna-chornovol × Olia Gozha Design Partner at Kohorta, Web & Product Designer × Olena Kuzmichova CEO at “Self-ERP”, 18+ years experience in FinTech & IT × Tetiana Slabko Юрист в tech-сфері, privacy counsel @Wargaming, партнер @Wtech Сlub Singapore × Anna Zmiievska Creative business Anzy Home, consulting Anromind, former CMO Promin’ (energy) × Ivan Denysyuk CEO стартап-студії Zade з понад 7-річним досвідом співпраці зі стартапами, експерт USF, магістр з менеджменту маркетингової діяльності Бізнес-школи УКУ, ментор та спікер українських та міжнародних акселераторів. × Sergey Kudryashov У своїй кар’єрі я пройшов шлях UX→PM→CEO→VC Пройшов шлях від UX до PM, а потім до засновника та СЕО власного стартапу та VC. Зараз консультую українські стартапи × Valeriy Kozlov Valerii is a former founder and CEO in the field of technology and software engineering, with over 15 years of executive-level and consulting experience. His expertise lies in addressing the growth challenges faced by B2B tech companies, specializing in business strategy, client success, operations, organizational transformation, and holistic management for both service- and product-oriented organizations. Additionally, he possesses a strong engineering background. Throughout his career, he has had the privilege of working with prominent clients in the hi-tech industry, including Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and Deloitte Technology Fast 500 companies. Currently, as a Business Data Expert and Consultant, Valerii helps companies make smarter, data-driven decisions. × Jane Davydiuk Fractional COO, mentorship experience: Growth Mentor, Techstars, Sigma, Projector mentor × Ferents Milo 10+ years of experience as project lead CEO of ПРМЛ × Taras Barshchovskyi Засновник та Генеральний директор компанії MetaliX, виробництва інтер’єрних зонуючих конструкцій і дверей зі сталі та скла. Продажі у Львові, на Заході України та експорт у 5 країн: Британія, Німеччина, Канада, Італія, Чехія. Двічі потрапляли у Forbes: жовтень 2023 у топ 40 експортерів України які успішно вийшли на експорт під час війни, червень 2024 у Forbes NEXT250, список найперспективніших компаній малого та середнього бізнесу в Україні у 2024 році. Більше 12 років в ІТ від інженера до Делівері Менеджера, будував та керував акаунтами з сумарною кількістю працівників 200. Працював з великими корпораціями – Google, Ericsson, Reddit, DropBox, Microsoft etc. Ангельський інвестор і стартап едвайзор. У 2023 портфельний стартап S.Lab переміг на IT Arena Startup Competition та став найкращим стартапом 2023 в Україні за версією Ukrainian Startup Fund. Одружений, батько 3х синів. × Oleksandr Korniychuk Founder and CEO at YARD Delivery Inc × Liza Lapina Operations Manager at BRISE Capital, PM of Product Clusters at Techosystem NGO × Volodymyr Bazhan Volodymyr is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor; 20 years in IT and digitalization from developer to SVP Client Success at SoftServe; He has deep experience in many technological and business areas; He has the experience of creating a startup Elin.ai with access to the US market and passing the Berkeley SkyDeck Accelerator program with a $100K investment; He will help you with the construction of strategy and business models. × Bohdana Muravska Bohdana has been working in the field of Digital Marketing & SMM for 10 years; She led the media marketing department at a company within the Genesis ecosystem; Under her management, a cross-functional operations team of 20 people from different countries around the world (from Austria to Madagascar) worked seamlessly; She developed more than 5 successful SMM strategies, working with Eco-Shop, Florium, Realme, Shop of Traditions, and Ty Yak; Currently, Bohdana is enhancing digital communications at the Ministry of Finance. × Oleksandra Tsymbal Entrepreneur; Founder of the Projects Laboratory CreatorsMatter with 11 years of project management experience (agile methodologies); Master of Psychology × Andrew Balyk Why Andrew became a mentor? Andrew Balyk – Product Manager at SoftServe, has 5+ years of experience in product management and business analysis in the field of technology and has the skills to scale products or operations in a fast-growing environment. Managed virtual and closed teams. Defines project resources, timelines, and dependencies. Used Lean principles and SCRUM methods. Able to formulate strategies for a large enterprise; conducting a market experiment. Andrew will show in his cases what a growing successful product is and how to achieve it. × Olesia Yedynak-Khoma Olesya is the founder and CEO of Yedynka Digital – an agency for the development and promotion of digital products. He has extensive experience in organizing socially responsible projects (Best Ukrainian book 2011, Charity auction with the Olena Pinchuk “AntiAIDS” Foundation 2012, Life is worth it! Project with Volvo 2013) The company cooperates with startups in Ukraine, Denmark, and Norway. Olesya is a graduate of LvBS and has over 17 years of experience in marketing. It is this mentor who will teach participants to recognize business opportunities and build the right model that works. Knows everything about how to build a quality partnership. × Nazar Burban Nazar has more than 8 years of working in the field of operational management and project management; 4 years in software development; Member of PDMA Ex-director of Mobius LLC; Ex-vice president of “Lamor Ukraine” LLC; Co-founder and CEO Measurme; Author of the novel “When I Pulled Myself Together”. Nazar knows exactly how to be a leader and create successful projects. His work combines knowledge of the market, a clear structure, analytics, and most importantly, how to apply knowledge in practice and achieve success. × Oleh Pankiv Serial entrepreneur with a variety of real-life practical experiences gained from my mistakes and everyday work. Oleh is a Co-founder of several companies, among them Semicolon Lab, Axsys Inc., KindGeek. He has extensive experience working with startups from Israel and the United States. He is the one who will tell you the harsh truth for your good. Expertise: SaaS, Retail, Aviation, B2B, Product Delivery from Inception to Completion, Project Management, Product Management, Technical Leadership, Change Management, Agile, Software Architecture, Performance & Scale. × Oksana Hera 💼 Oksana is an entrepreneur, so she perfectly knows and understands all the intricacies of building business communication. Worked with the international organization IATEFL BESIG, where she improved her project presentation skills at the international level. Participated in the TESOL Greece Big SIG Day interactive plenary panel “Education of Hearts and Minds – Education for Resilience”. × Darya Sedykh Darya is a Co-founder of the ZEPS company, which specializes in hardware development – IoT, Drones, and robots. Entrepreneur with a background in the public sector, MPA, and Master of Laws. Managed technological projects in Europe and Ukraine. Attracted 700+ k USD of investment capital. 🎓Technology team mentor, a specialist in project development strategy, who knows how important it is to be a leader and how to apply these skills successfully. × Sofia Vyshnevska 💻 Sofia is an entrepreneur, co-founder, and COO at Propertymate (a startup that recently passed the acceleration program at Techstars). She spent the last three years in real estate technology. Experienced in product and business development and building the team behind it. Previously COO at Brainify, and Marketing Director at Duna. Can help to deal with: forming the main indicators that reflect the state of your business; tools and frameworks that effectively establish a permanent process; pitching and presentation. × Tetyana Kuz Why Tanya became a mentor? Tetyana is a Product Manager at SoftServe and has over 10 years of experience in B2B marketing, including ABM. Has experience in product marketing and development of the Energy vertical – development of value propositions and sales materials, the launch of digital campaigns. So he knows exactly how to help with the right approach to any project. Currently works as a product manager on two products, integration applications for Microsoft Teams, where she is responsible for the entire process from the idea to the release of applications on the Microsoft marketplace. × Bohdan Kupych Vice President for Business Development of KM Core Company. The first president and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine for 10 years. Expert and Member of the Academic Council of the MSc in Innovations and Entrepreneurship LvBS program. He lectured on marketing and entrepreneurship at the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School and was a keynote speaker at the International Technology Symposium at Stanford. He studied political science at York University, graduated from leadership programs at the INSEAD business school and venture business management at the Haas Business School in California, and has a diploma in management and an MBA from Athabasca University in Canada. He has 25 years of experience in the technology business. Bohdan will help you in the marketing and technological areas. × Lecturers All speakers Олег Заремба CTO & Co-founder at AiSDR, Forbes 30 under 30, 2x Y Combinator alum Olha Zharova Founder of The EngL and Smako'terra protein. Graduate of LvBS and Stanford Ignite Ukraine. Yossi Feinberg Director at Stanford Ignite James Lattin Professor at Stanford University Jonathan Levav Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business Ron Kasznik Professor at Stanford University Business School Matt Abrahams Lecturer at Stanford University Graduate School of Business Anne Beyer Professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business Nir Halevy Professor at Stanford University Mariia Khachatrian Co-Founder at keywords.agency Martyn Kovalko Entrepreneur, Organizer of TedxLviv Olena Zanichkovska Director of Product Strategy at The Gradient Andrew Balyk Product Manager at Softserve Margaret Velebnyk Speaker, Mentor, Co-founder at ideasLab, Program and Community Manager at Booster DeepTech Acceleration and Funding Lab at Seeds for Bravery Natalya Rybka-Parhomenko Actress in the Lviv Academic Theater named after Les Kurbas. Valerie Teverovska 🔹Co-founder of (un)certain sales company Mariia Pylyp Co-founder of the consulting company (un)certain sales. Ivan Petrenko CEO at CfE Accelerator, Managing Partner at Angel One Andrii Milinevskiy Co-Founding Partner at CX design, Senior Director and Vice President Product at web3 IaaS startup Impossible Cloud. Oleg Zaremba CTO & Co-founder at AiSDR, Forbes 30 under 30, 2x Y Combinator alum × Olha Zharova Founder of The EngL and Smako’terra protein. Graduate of LvBS and Stanford Ignite Ukraine. × Yossi Feinberg × James Lattin × Jonathan Levav × Ron Kasznik × Matt Abrahams × Anne Beyer × Nir Halevy × Mariia Khachatrian Speaker Trainer at TEDxLviv Co-founder at keywords.agency Expert at public Speaker × Martyn Kovalko Co-founder of keywords.agency Co-founder, Speakers TeamLead at TEDxLviv Co-founder of BOIM. Deli restaurants Co-founder of Fresh Bar Lviv Martin will reveal life hacks for how to pitch cool! × Olena Zanichkovska Olena is a Founding Partner and Director of Product Strategy at The Gradient, a Digital Product Design Agency. She worked directly with Daimler AG, Jaja Finance, SWAN, Dubai Financial Market, Holberg. Olena works with clients to enable their digital transformation and helps develop and implement product strategies from conceptualization to launch. She creates digital product strategies based on analysis of user needs and business challenges, providing a wide range of services from new product design to integrated brand and marketing campaigns. Before The Gradient, Olena was a Business Development Director at Perfectial. She also spent ten years at ELEKS, where her focus as a Head of Digital was the development of digital services for leading clients. Olena holds an MA in International Economics and Ph.D. in Management. Key areas of expertise: Business Strategy, Product Strategy, Business Development, Product Management, Product Marketing, Digital Transformation, and Digital Products. × Andrew Balyk Andrew Balyk – Product Manager at SoftServe, has 5+ years of experience in product management and business analysis in the field of technology and has the skills to scale products or operations in a fast-growing environment. Managed virtual and closed teams. Defines project resources, timelines, and dependencies. Used Lean principles and SCRUM methods. Able to formulate strategies for a large enterprise; conducting a market experiment. Andrew will show in his cases what a growing successful product is and how to achieve it. × Marharyta Velebnyk Marharyta is a ex-COO at CfE Accelerator; Speaker, Mentor, Co-founder at ideasLab, Program and Community Manager at Booster DeepTech Acceleration and Funding Lab at Seeds for Bravery She has more than 6 years of experience in creating, managing, and coordinating programs and projects, as well as an extensive analytical background; Built and coordinated work of 7 Wings Startup Support Fund; Knows everything and even more about startups, as she worked with more than 7 batches of startup programs; Marharyta will explain how to conduct an initial idea and market analysis, as well as share life hacks on how to organize teamwork on the project effectively. × Natalya Rybka-Parhomenko 🎭 Natalya is an actress in the Lviv Academic Theater named after Les Kurbas. For 2 years, she taught acting at the Kharkiv Institute of Culture and Arts named after Ivan Kotlyarevsky. Co-founder and vocalist of the band “KURBASY” Natalia’ll show you how to present projects successfully. × Valerie Teverovska Head of Sales Development at Basis Theory; Valerie was an SDR trainer at Very Good Security; Business development enthusiast with five years of experience in Sales in tech; Has 6 years of experience in B2B sales; Co-founder of a tech startup and consulting company (un)certain sales for B2B companies. × Mariia Pylyp Maria headed the sales department at Very Good Security. Has 7 years of experience in B2B sales; Co-organizer of the Product Track at the IT Arena Conference; Co-founder of the consulting company (un)certain sales. × Ivan Petrenko CEO at CfE Accelerator, Managing Partner at Angel One! Worked as director of work with corporate clients of the insurance company “Universalna”, and Director of development in the company “Galnaftogaz”. Obtained a master’s degree in business administration at the UCU Business School (LvBS), having completed the Key Executive MBA program. Ivan will help with client development, business model, and building strategy. × Andrii Milinevskiy 🔹 Andrii Milinevskyi is an international professional in transformation, innovation, customer experience management, product and service design, and sales. – Senior Director and Vice President Product at web3 IaaS startup Impossible Cloud. – Having more than 20 years of executive work in telecom – Kyivstar, Beeline, Golden Telecom – Andrii in partnership founded the CX design agency, which helps large Ukrainian businesses to build success through effective client-centricity. The agency creates holistic customer experience management systems and builds excellent services and competitive products using design thinking methods. – Andrii has led transformation, innovation, excellent customer experience, marketing, and sales at a large international telecom since 1997. From 2007-2010, he also managed a large telecom company: CEO of Golden Telecom and Beeline in Ukraine. – From 2010-2016, as B2B Director and Chief Transformation Officer, Andriy managed the client-centric transformation of Kyivstar: the creation of the Customer Experience Management function and Big Data direction, reorganization of B2B Sales and Marketing, Call Center, design of Retail transformation, omnichannel program, implementation of digital. – Andrii – MBA from Maastricht School of Management (Netherlands), design thinking practitioner, certified Partner and Sales Consultant of Miller Heiman Group, and Technology of Participation. × Partners Contacts 79000, Ukraine, Lviv 29 Stryysʹka str. cfe.connect@ucu.edu.ua Office open hours - Thursday 2 pm - 5 pm. Ukrainian Catholic University © 2024 × × × Далі