For Ukrainian founders, access to investors or talent are a problem for another day — first they need to have running electricity and internet. Here’s how they’re coping
- Stakh Vozniak, СЕО of Cargofy: “Everyone has already adapted to the constant blackouts. The team hasn’t lost its fighting spirit — people try to face the current challenges with a sense of humour.”
- It’s perhaps this attitude that’s made Ukraine’s startup ecosystem so resilient this year. The country’s IT sector was the only industry in Ukraine to grow in 2022.
- Ukraine has even minted two new unicorns since February, when the war began — airSlate and Unstoppable Domains (both are headquarters in the US) — while Preply, a language learning platform, raised $50m to scale up globally.
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Support Ukraine!
Come Back Alive is one of the largest charitable foundations that supports Ukrainian soldiers, founded by the IT specialist Vitaliy Deynega. The organization collected more than 210 million UAH (more than $7M) in 2014. According to Na chasi, the Patreon page Come Back Alive is in the top ten projects by the number of financial donations.
There are several other organizations to support:
- MacPaw Development Fund
- Army SOS, which develops drones;
- Everybody Can, an organization that supports internally displaced people;
- Help on the Ministry of Defense website.