Weekly TechUkraine Digest 2022

What has happened in the Ukrainian tech market on 1-6 of February 2022?

R&D and new offices in Ukraine and globally

Ajax Systems keeps expanding in the South America market. After Chile, the company kicked-off in Argentina and the next country of the region will be Columbia – read

EPAM opened an office in Rivne. The company plans to attract over 100 tech specialists in the region – read

Venture capital and startups: 

Cofounded by Ukrainians Aegiq lands seed investment to revolutionise trust in telecoms and computing with quantum photonics. Together, with existing funding from Innovate UK, the seed investment brings Aegiq’s total available funding to over £3.5m ($4.8m) – read

Cargofy, a logistics/freight tech startup hailing from Ukraine has raised $2 million in seed funding – read

Ukrainian legal startup that provides services for the automatic protection of intellectual property rights Lawyerd! was selected by Techstars Torino 2022 and got a $120,000 investment at a $3 million valuation – read

Ecosystem news:

Based on the presentation “How to pitch Ukrainian tech” made by TechUkraine in partnership with UNIT.City, Ministry of Digital Transformation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and many other stakeholders of the sphere, Ukrainian Tech Ecosystem Overview platform developed the landing page for the project and represented the overview of tech landscape of Ukraine – take a look 

EU4DigitalUA, Dealroom, European Commission launched Eastern Partnership startup ecosystem platformread

Several Ukrainian startups showcased their technologies at CES 2022 in Las Vegas, one of the world’s key tech expos with some 2,200 exhibitors: NECT, Recoshelf, Sorbsys, Time to Mashine, Wider Multivisor – read

Ukrainian Delfast Bikes was announced as The Fastest E-Bike 2022 by Forbes for the second year in a row – read

Ukrainian Raccoon.Recovery has been named one of 32 Top Rehabilitation Startups and Companies in Germany. The company is a digital physiotherapist that in 1 minute on the basis of the questionnaire will check your conditions and provide you with a training course – read

Kyiv-based Remme, an ecosystem of Identity and Access Management products with a digital key at its heart, named one of the top cybersecurity companies in Europe-2021 by British Threat.Technology – read

American University Kyiv opened its doors in the capital of Ukraine and will start offering undergraduate, graduate, and lifelong learning programs in the areas of IT and business management in 2022 – read

Mazepa Awards has announced longlisted contenders to win the investment awards and opened the voting. The organizers aim at honoring and rewarding people and companies that invest in Ukraine not only funds but also part of their lives – read

Column by Dominique Piotet, CEO of UNIT.City, is about his experience of 3-years working in Ukraine and why he stay in the countryread

Interview with Serhii Dubinevych, CEO and cofounder of the Ukrainian cleantech startup MaxAh that develops a technology for lithium power supplies using Ukrainian graphene – read

The Eastern European Paradox: How a Troubled Region Generated Unicorns and Decacorns in 2021, and What to Expect this Yearread

Government news

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted the National Security and Defense Council’s decision of December 30, 2021, “On the Plan for implementing the Cyber Security Strategy of Ukraine” – read

Reports

Salaries of Ukrainian PM, HR, DevOps, Data Scientists, Winter 2022 by DOU – read

Salaries of Ukrainian QA specialists, Winter 2022 by DOU read

Global M&A 2021 by Pitchbook – read

2021 Annual Information Security Report by Pitchbook – read

State Of Retail Tech 2021 Report by CBInsights – read

Via TechUkraine, Forbes, Tech.eu, UADN, Crunchbase, CBInsights, Pitchbook, DOU, dev.ua, SPEKA, AIN, UBN, The Kyiv Independent, Ukrinform, KyivPost

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