What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 22-28 of November 2021?
R&D, new offices in Ukraine
Chinese mobility technology platform DiDi registered the trademark in Ukraine. Known as China’s Uber, the company offers a wide range of app-based services across Asia-Pacific, Latin America and Africa, as well as in Central Asia and Russia – read
Grid Dynamics will open the 4th office in Ukraine. The R&D will be based in Dnipro. In 2020, Grid Dynamics acquired Daxx – read
Venture capital and startups:
Verbit.ai with office in Kyiv lands $250M Series E at a $2B valuation to expand its AI-powered transcription platform. The latest funding brings its total raised to more than $550 million – read
Cashflow management startup Settle with an office in Lviv has raised $60M in Series B funding round led by Ribbit Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Caffeinated Capital, Activant Capital and Stripes – read
Ukraine’s wearable transcribing device Skripter raises $111,000 on Kickstarter. Its developer, the Ukrainian startup Senstone, has raised money by 748 Kickstarter backers as of Nov. 21, according to founder Nazar Fedorchuk – read
Ukrainian grocery delivery business Zakaz.ua has attracted $10 mln in investments over the ten-year period of its operations – read
Ukrainian Adventures Lab, and Elysium Venture Capital, Finsight Ventures, Digital Future, Joint Journey VC, and angels at Google and ServiceNow invested $1.2 Million in Narrative BI, no-code augmented analytics platform for growth teams that automatically turns raw data into actionable narratives – read
Ecosystem news:
On November 18, the space agencies of Ukraine and Canada signed a joint statement of partnership in Halifax Canada. Both sides laid the first stone of the space launch complex – read
German launch startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has signed a launch contract inked at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen with Ukraine-based Lunar Research Service (LRS) for launch of of its RFA One rocket research mission – read
DOU represented the TOP 28 Ukrainian GameDev companies. The biggest are Playrix, Ubisoft, Plarium, Gameloft, Wargaming – read
Ukrainian professional esports athlete Olexandr Kostylev, 24, has become the gaming champion of the world at the prestigious Esports Awards – read
Ukrainian Maksym Kovalenko, the science star in one of the world-renowned ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, is named the influencer of the year and honored as “Highly Cited Researchers” – read
The well-known telemedicine service application Doctor Online and the recently launched LeoDoc project are united under one business structure, the American company LeoMed Inc – read
Ukrainian e-bike company Delfast presented the concept of the legendary Dnepr model bike – designed to rethink the understanding of e-power
Ukrainian fintech giant Monobank celebrates 4th anniversary – key achievements of neobank by CEO Oleg Gorokhovskyi – read
10 Ukrainian impact startups presented the projects at the Startup Pitсh Session at the 9th Sweden-Ukraine Business Forum – read
Key takeaways of the AI HOUSE CONFERENCE that brought together the world-renowned experts of AI and ML fields in Kyiv – read
The case study of creation the Ukrainian online university of real professions Choice31 – read
Reports
2021 CIO Study: The CIO Revolution by IBM – read
Sustainability Report 2019-2020 by SoftServe – read
Via TechUkraine, SpaceNews, TechCrunch, DOU, dev.ua, SPEKA, AIN, UBN, The Kyiv Independent
