Tech Ecosystem news during aggression
Ukrainian lhor Klymenko became the best student in the world according to the Global Student Prize, Ihor received the golden prize and $100,000 to develop his invention Quadcopter Mines Detector, a demining robot – read
Three brave Ukrainians among the TIME100 Next, a list that recognizes 100 rising stars from across industries and around the world: Maryna Viazovska, Ukrainian mathematician who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022, Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kurbakov, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine – read
Ukrainian young science team from Kharkiv became the Silver winners at the International Young Physicists’ Tournament (IYPT) în Timișoara, Romania – read
Business Insider featured Ukrainian Alexandra Balkova, Startup Wise Guys, among 41 women partners in the VC ecosystem in 2021-2022 – read
Ukrainian cofounder of Petcube Yaroslav Azhnyuk was awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit, 3rd grade, by the President of Ukraine’s decree – read
Ukrainian cyber expert, cofounder of CyberUnitTech, Yegor Aushev was awarded by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine for the comprehensive support in the cyberfrontier during wartime – read
Ukraine and the UK signed a digital trade agreement which removes trade barriers and provides appropriate support to Ukrainian businesses that have suffered because of the war – read
Ukraine joined the Digital Europe Programme by the European Commission which gives Ukrainian businesses, organizations, and public administrations access the calls from the Programme, which has an overall budget of €7.5 billion for the 2021-2027 period – read
The National Bank of Ukraine, Cambridge Judge Business School and CyberUnit.Tech launched a unique training program designed to facilitate innovations in Ukraine’s financial sector – read
Eight Ukrainian Startups presented at TechBBQ 2022 in Denmark: S,Lab, GIOS, zeelly, Akurateco, i3 Engineering, SmartZavod, Qella, AirLaw – read
Ukraine will participate in the iconic startup conference TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 in San-Francisco, the USA, on October 18-20 – read
The second year in a rough Ukrainian tech ecosystem will be presented by the national pavilion at the Web Summit in Lisbon, on November 1-4 – read
Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge opened a co-working for Ukrainian startups in Warsaw – read
Amazon has decided to cancel the referral commission for sellers from Ukraine in Europe and Great Britain for one year. From September 6 and for the next 12 months, it will be 0% – read
Uber has partnered with the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture’s National Research and Restoration Center (NRRC) to locate, restore and protect the Ukrainian cultural identity – read
The first 3-days Drone Hackathon was held in Ukraine: jury awarded 6 teams with the best solutions – read
Swedish-Ukrainian IT company Sigma Software Group and Tech Nation UK will host the Cross-European hackathon ‘Hack for Peace’, to build tech solutions to solve war issues – read
8 tech companies with Ukrainian roots were featured at Inc. Magazine 5000 list 2022 – 2 of them are the unicorns – read
Ukrainian Culver Aviation presented a new product, unique both in terms of automation and scalability, at the Commercial UAV Expo 2022 in Las Vegas – read
Ukrainian Let’s Enhance partnered with Google Cloud & NVIDIA – read
Kyiv-based team AllBridge released Allbridge Core which enables the transfer of value between blockchains by offering cross-chain swaps of native stablecoins – read
Ukraine in cooperation with South Korea announced building an innovative technology park in the Kyiv region. Bucha Tehno Garden will become a pilot in the master plan of the Ukrainian national recovery program – read
Lviv School No. 23 will get a new building for its elementary classes which will be built using 3D-printing technologies – read
Ukrainian volunteer Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation collected $20 million of donations to buy three “Bayraktars”. But due to the courtesy of Baykar Technologies, Ukraine gets them for free. So, the team bought access to a satellite of the ICEYE network to prevent attacks by the russian army – read
AI HOUSE launched edtech project “AI for Ukraine”, a series of workshops and lectures held by international artificial intelligence experts to support the development of Ukraine’s tech community during the war – read
The association representing Europe’s and Ukrainian private equity, venture capital, and infrastructure sectors launched BoostEUkraine – an ambitious initiative aiming to bring together, through a pan-EU-UA network, experienced start-up support organisations with the mission to facilitate and support the integration of the most promising Ukrainian DeepTech start-ups in the Single Market – read
Poland and the Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine (SSSCIP) signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) to strengthen collaboration on shared cybersecurity priorities – read
TechUkraine: interview, reportages, longreads
- Daria Shapovalova & Natalia Modenova, DRESSX: “We are sure that in the future, Ukraine has all the potential to become Europe’s biggest tech hub” – read
- Sergiy Korsunsky, Ambassador of Ukraine to Japan: “Today 35 Japan universities opened their doors to Ukrainian students” – read
- Kiril Bondar, Partner & CFO at UNIT.City: “You May Not Predict The Future But Can Create It” – read
- Anatoly Popel, СASES CEO: “Our wish to support people, encourage them to continue working, and not stop their development despite the war” – read
- Interview with Primsell: French-Ukrainian tech team builds global WEB 3.0 startup – read
- Reportage from TechBBQ 2022: The Ukrainian Startups Presented Innovation Ecosystem In Denmark – read
- Dr. Kenneth Geers, Very Good Security, at DEFCON 30: Computer Hacks in the Russia-Ukraine War – read
- Evelina Komarnytska, Head of Grant Programs at Ukrainian Startup Fund: My Role Was To Represent Ukraine And Demonstrate Our Resilience And Strength – read
- Anastasia Marushevska, Coordinator at Ukrainian PR Army: A case of a Medium Blog: The Ukrainian View – read
- SpendWithUkraine: Top 10 Innovative Ukrainian Startups – read
- SpendWithUkraine: Ukrainian Educational Startups – read
