What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market in 1-5 of February 2021?
Venture capital and startups:
Ukrainian television manufacture company headquartered in Kyiv KIVI raises $13 million from Shenzhen MTC in China to develop a new smart TV rang – 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 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
NASA has awarded Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, approximately $93.3 million to deliver a suite of 10 science investigations and technology demonstrations to the Moon in 2023. The delivery, planned for Mare Crisium, a low-lying basin on the Moon’s near side, will investigate a variety of lunar surface conditions and resources. Such investigations will help prepare for human missions to the lunar surface – read
Ajax Systems, a smart security systems developer, has acquired the engineering team of Concepter, a design and product development studio. The Concepter developers will become members of various R&D teams at Ajax Systems and will work on new devices – read
Ecosystem news:
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
СЕО Support Your App Daria Leshchenko became the first Ukrainian who won the nomination Woman of the Year in Customer Service by 15th annual international business The Stevie Awards – read
Ukrainian company Murka is among the top 30 EMEA headquartered publishers by App Annie. After joining the US investment giant Blackstone Group in 2019, Murka finished 2020 with a record revenue growth of +30%, increased its market share, and is now one of the top 10 global leaders in the social casino games genre – read
Interview with Vlad Greziev, one of the initiators of the first Ukrainian club on Clubhouse – Ukrainian House on Clubhouse, about buzzing social media and the voice of Ukrainian tech on the global stage – read
CEO of UNIT.City Dominique Piotet talked to Yura Lazebnikov, a managing partner of esports media holding company WePlay Esports, and discussed trends in esports, spectacular tournaments, earnings of top-ranking players, and Ukraine’s advantages in terms of esports – 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. Currently, the Ministry is carrying out a global reform in this area – working on the development of electronic service to change the place of registration on the portal and in the Diia application – read
Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine Oleh Uruskyy held a meeting on the creation of Ukrainian remote sensing satellites with high resolution with major spacecraft developers and customers of satellite services – the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” and SE “CB “Pivdenne” – read
Reports:
Tech M&A report 2020 by Capital Times – read
European M&A Report by PitchBook – read
