A Ukrainian fund joins a €11M financing round for the French developer of a freelancer platform. French startup Jump attracted €11M of investment in a Series A round. Among the investors is the Ukrainian venture fund Roosh Ventures. Pan-European fund Breega led the round, and Index Ventures, RAIS... #France #investments #Jump #RooshVentures #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
How will the real estate market react to the hryvnia’s further fall? Until the end of the year, bankers forecast exchange rate fluctuations in the current corridor of ₴41.3-42 per $1. This coincides with the exchange rate calculations laid down in the state budget (₴42... #hryvniaexchangerate #investments #PrimaryHousing #RealEstateUkraine #RentalHousing
Ukraine can become the titanium hub of Europe, but hundreds of millions of dollars are needed. To replace Russia in the global supply of titanium, Ukraine will require years of construction and hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, said the chairman of the board of the United Mining an... #investments #MiningIndustry #TitaniumUkraine #UkraineDevelopment #UkraineEconomy #UMCC
Three industrial parks receive ₴347.5M in grant funds from the state for infrastructure development. Three more industrial parks in the Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, and Vinnytsia regions received state funding under the Made in Ukraine policy in the total amount of ₴347.5M ($8.5M). The Korosten industrial ... #CoFinancingScheme #Grants #IndustrialPark #investments #MadeinUA
The Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy seaport fails to sell for the tenth time. Why are investors refusing to buy it? The latest auction of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyy Seaport scheduled for September 16 did not take place due to a lack of bidders. If no applications are received by September 24, the State Property Fund... #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #GroupDF #investments #nibulon #NikaTera #Potoky #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU
Odesa is actively working on the creation of two multi-disciplinary industrial parks. Despite the full-scale war, Odesa city authorities are actively working to create two industrial parks, said the mayor of Odesa, Gennady Trukhanov. The first park (Odesa Innovation Park) will be locat... #GennadiyTrukhanov #IndustrialPark #investments #Kulindorovo #Odesa #OdesaInnovationPark #UkraineEconomy
Ukraine and the EBRD plan to increase investment in energy and infrastructure by €325M. Ukraine and the EBRD discussed the possibilities of expanding investment in energy and infrastructure projects. “With the help of the EBRD, we hope to unblock private investments in renewable en... #ebrd #EnergyInfrastructure #investments #PrivatBank #Ukrgasbank #YuliyaSvyridenko
An Italian shipbuilder is preparing to reconstruct the Odesa port facilities. Fincantieri, Europe’s largest shipbuilder based in Trieste, Italy, is working to transform Ukraine’s defunct state-owned shipyards in the port of Odesa into a state-of-the-art production c... #Fincantieri #ifc #investments #MIGA #OdesaSeaport #ShipBuilding
Which Ukrainian defense tech niches are most attractive for investors? At the end of 2023, the Ukrainian defense industry was estimated at $3B. In 2024, this figure may increase to more than $5B; a notable part of this total is the defense tech segment. Domestic manufact... #Brave1 #D3VentureCapital #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseTechnology #GreenFlagVentures #investments
A ten-year Ukrainian telecom deal: A French billionaire has bought Lifecell and Datagrup-Volia. Investment company NJJ Holding, owned by French billionaire Xavier Niel, has completed its acquisition of Ukrainian mobile operator Lifecell and fixed internet provider Datagroup-Volia. This acquisiti... #Datagroup #DatagroupVolia #HorizonCapital #investments #LifeCell #NJJCapital #XavierNiel
One of the oldest players in the Ukrainian fast-food market is investing $6M to expand its network. After a pause of almost 2.5 years, Puzata Hata has resumed the expansion of its chain of restaurants. During 2024, it will grow by at least six facilities, investing $1M in each. The Ukrainian restaur... #BusinessDevelopment #FastFoodMarket #investments #PuzataHata #Restaurants
The management of the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi port has named potential investors within the privatization framework. The port director, Oksana Kiktenko, said the following companies are interested in acquiring the Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi Sea Trade Port: MSP Nika-Tera company, Potoky, and agricultural holding Nibulon. ... #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #investments #nibulon #NikaTera #Potoky #PrivatizationUkraine #Ukraineinvestors
No major investor has left the Zhytomyr region during the war; a Polish company is preparing to invest ₴15M in the mining industry. As reported by Vitaliy Bunechko, the head of Zhytomyr OVA, Polish company Cersanit, which has a large sanitary wares production plant in Zvyagel (Ukraine), plans to invest ₴15M in the kaolin clay depo... #Bayer #BGV #Cersanit #investments #MiningIndustry #VitalyBunechko #Zhytomyr
Ukrainians are increasing their investment in government bonds: The share is already 4%. In August 2024, the Ministry of Finance raised ₴29.1B from the issuance of government bonds. Military bonds accounted for ₴6B of the total volume of government bonds issued in August. As of September ... #financeUkraine #investments #nbu #OVDP #UkraineBond
In August, Ukraine held 500 auctions for state and communal property, attracting over ₴160M. According to Prozorro.Sale, more than 500 August online auctions has generated almost ₴161.7M for Ukrainian budgets at all levels. The most expensive lot of the month became the property of the automo... #BelgorodDniestrovskySeaPort #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #ProzorroAuction #UMCC
Investing in Ukrainian real estate is more profitable than in EU countries: Prices will increase by 100% after the war. The top manager of developer Intergal-Bud, Anna Laevska, noted that currently in Ukraine, prices for premium-class apartments are on the same level as prices for economy-class housing in Hungary or Ge... #HousingInUkraine #IntergalBud #investments #RealEstateUkraine
American investors made the first investments of $200,000 in several Ukrainian defense startups. A defense startup accelerator launched by MITS and American University Kyiv has completed its first program for Ukrainian mil-tech startups, providing participants $200,000 each. The direct investment... #DefenseStartups #DefenseTechnology #investments #LockheedMartin #MITS #UkrainianStartUP
One of the world’s largest food manufacturers is preparing to launch a $45M factory. The Nestlé company will open its fourth Ukrainian factory in Smoligov, Volyn. While the construction process continues, the company has already hired over 100 workers and has the same number of vacanc... #FoodProductionUkraine #investments #Nestle #NestleFactory #VolynRegion
A global building materials manufacturer has announced its readiness to buy two cement factories in Ukraine. CRH Ukraine announced on the National Securities Commission website its intention to acquire a 99.9775% stake in the authorized capital of Dyckerhoff Cement Ukraine, which owns two cement factories in... #BuildingMaterials #BuzziUnicem #CRH #ebrd #investments #UkraineCement
Transcarpathia has launched a dry port with an investment of ₴282M and has plans for scaling. A new enterprise, Chornotysiv Terminal, which functions as a new multimodal terminal (dry port), has started work in the Beregovo district of the Transcarpathia region. This terminal is a large logist... #DryPort #infrastructureUkraine #investments #Transcarpathia #Ukrainianlogistics
Ukraine is trying to attract American investment in its mineral development. Ukraine and the US discussed deepening cooperation in critical materials to encourage American businesses to enter Ukraine and invest in mineral extraction and processing. Implementation of joint inve... #investments #MineralDepositsUkraine #MiningIndustry #MIningMineralsUkraine #naturalgraphite
The EBRD invests $5M in a tree health monitoring company to open a subsidiary in Ukraine. The EBRD invested $5M in shares of Israeli company SeeTree, which specializes in developing software for monitoring the health and productivity of trees. The investment is aimed at creating a subsidia... #AgroInvestments #ebrd #investments #Israel #SeeTree
A large chain of supermarkets has invested more than ₴70M in energy efficiency and seeks $15M more for its further plans. Top manager of the Novus network, Dainius Tumėnas, said that Novus has already invested more than ₴70M in its energy efficiency program. Diesel generators are installed at 98% of facilities. One of th... #Energyefficiency #investments #Novus #RaimondasTumėnas #retailUkraine
The implementation of an investment project in Ukraine to develop hydrogen energy involves attracting about €33B in investment capital. Scientists presented research on the development of investment projects in Ukraine: To achieve the goals of the Development of hydrogen energy in Ukraine project, a total investment of €32.882B will b... #FreightCars #GDPinUkraine #hydrogenEnergy #investments #Titaniumproduction #UkraineEconomy
Ukrainian companies, with sufficient investment, can produce 90% of the building materials that will be needed for reconstructing Ukraine. According to the KSE, Ukrainian manufacturers can potentially produce 90% of the building materials needed to rebuild the country. About $65B will be needed for these building materials. Currently, th... #BuildingMaterials #CityOneDevelopment #EFIgroup #investments #Kingspan #UkraineReconstruction
During the war, foreigners have opened more than 3,000 companies in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the full-scale war, foreigners from 101 countries have opened 3,075 companies in Ukraine. Most often, citizens of Turkey opened businesses in Ukraine – 396 companies or 12.9% of... #businessinukraine #ForeignInvestor #investments #TENS1MA #YugenVenture
Astrobuild will manage two industrial parks in the Kyiv region with a total investment in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The Astrobuild managing company consolidated the management of industrial assets in two industrial parks – Bila Tserkva and Bila Tserkva 2 – projects of the UFuture holding company. The consolidation ... #Astrobuild #BilaTserkva #IndustrialPark #IndustrialParksUkraine #investments
Rental activity in the warehouse market increased by 13%. Rental activity in Ukraine’s warehouse real estate market in January-June increased by 13% compared to the same period last year and amounted to about 70,000 square meters, according to CBRE. De... #CommercialRealEstate #ConstructionUkraine #investments #RentalUkraine #WarehouseMarket
The Zaporizhzhia Aluminum Plant will be re-auctioned with a 50% discount. The privatization auction for the Zaporizhzhia Industrial Aluminum Plant on August 6 did not take place because there were no parties interested in participating in it, according to the Prozorro.Sales... #AluminumPlant #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #Zaporizhzhia
The Vinnytsia region will build a new $15M dry port to facilitate logistics with Odesa ports and EU countries. A dry port in the Vinnytsia region will help connect the central regions of the country with the ports of Odesa and, through the Mostyska container terminal, with EU countries. It will be a railway te... #ContainerTerminal #DryPort #investments #MostyskaDryPort #Ukrainianlogistics #Vinnytsia
What prevents foreign companies from investing in Ukrainian industrial parks? Almost all investors interested in locating production facilities in industrial parks are Ukrainian companies. The share of Ukrainian investors in the total industrial park investment structure is alm... #ForeignInvestor #IndustrialPark #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineRecovery
Land auction participants have earned more than ₴1B. The price of land increased by more than 50% in 2024 in land auctions conducted using the state’s electronic trading system, Prozorro. Gross sales from these auctions total more than ₴1B since the beg... #FarmLandSale #investments #LandAuction #LandMarketUkraine #ProZorro
Ukraine’s largest producer of pet food wants to attract €40M from the EBRD to build a second plant in Lithuania. On September 11, the EBRD will consider the possibility of granting a €40M loan to the Ukrainian Kormotech Group for the construction of a second plant to produce pet food in Lithuania. The group̵... #ebrd #FeedProduction #investments #Kormotech #Lithuania #LoansforBusiness #PetFood
Investors from the EU are ready to build five waste processing plants in Prykarpattia for €150M. The Minister of Environmental Protection, Ruslan Strilets, following the results of a meeting with German Ambassador to Ukraine Martin Jaeger and several investment companies, said: “I heard fro... #ForeignInvestor #investments #MartinJaeger #RuslanStrilets #WasteProcessingPlant #WasteRecycling
The US proposes a plan for Ukraine’s economic recovery. During her last visit to Kyiv as the US Special Representative for Ukraine’s Economic Recovery, Penny Pritzker evaluated the concept of Ukraine’s economic recovery and announced five components ... #EuropeanIntegration #investments #PennyPritzker #ReformsinUkraine #UkraineEconomy #UkraineRecovery
Suziria Group will receive $2M from USAID to launch a new pet food production line. The USAID project, Investments for Business Sustainability, concluded a $2M grant agreement with Suziria Group, one of the leaders in the Ukrainian pet product market, to increase its production capac... #FeedProduction #GrantsForBusiness #investments #PetFood #SuziriaGroup #USAID
Capital markets in Ukraine show slow growth and development. Despite all the challenges brought about by the war, and contrary to forecasts, capital markets in Ukraine not only avoided collapse but also persisted in demonstrating slow growth and development. Al... #CapitalMarket #CapitalMarketUkraine #financeUkraine #investments #UkraineBond
A Cypriot company buys more than 50% of a Ukrainian insurance company, and an Irish company, CRH, is finalizing the purchase of two cement factories in Ukraine for €100M. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) allowed Saggarco Limited (Cyprus) to acquire more than 50% of the shares of the RESPECT insurance company. On April 19, 2024, Saggarco Limited entered into... #BuzziUnicem #CRH #Dyckerhoff #ebrd #ForeignInvestor #InsuranceUkraine #investments #RESPECT #SaggarcoLimited
Ukraine and Japan sign a document to support investment projects, and 14 Japanese companies are ready to invest in the Ukrainian economy. Ukraine and Japan signed the Protocol of Discussions on the Project of Strengthening the Involvement of the Private Sector for the Reconstruction of Ukraine. The document envisages the provision of as... #BusinessSupport #investments #Japan #JICA #UkraineEconomy
Ukraine will present a list of investment projects for 2025 and expects to receive €4.1B from the EU. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the Cabinet of Ministers plans to present a prepared list of public investment projects for 2025 to its partners in September. “Thus, in conditions of... #DenysShmyhal #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineFacility
Epicentr will increase the capacity of the ceramic tile production plant in the Kyiv region to 12.5 million square meters per year. The Epicentr group of companies is completing the installation of a new production line at the Kalynivka, plant in the Kyiv region to increase its production capacity to 12.5 million square meters per... #CeramicTile #ConstructionMaterialsUkraine #EpicentrK #IndustryUkraine #investments
The EU is investing a record €7B in transport infrastructure, including four Ukrainian projects. The European Commission selected 134 transport projects that will receive more than €7B in grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) instrument for strategic infrastructure investment. Among th... #CEF #EuroTrack #GrantsforUkraine #investments #TransportInfrastructure #UkraineDevelopment #UkrainianRailways
A legal services AI startup with a Ukrainian co-founder has raised $5M. The Edinburgh-headquartered startup Wordsmith, which is developing a legal assistant that utilizes artificial intelligence, raised $5M. Index Ventures led the seed round with the participation of Gene... #ArtificialIntelligence #investments #legalstartup #StartUpinvestments #Wordsmith
Transcarpathia is investing more than €36M in a processing industrial park. A new industrial park, EKO Mukachevo, will be constructed in the city of Mukachevo in Transcarpathia. According to the park’s concept, processing enterprises will be created in the industrial pa... #EKOMukachevo #IndustrialPark #investments #Transcarpathia #UkraineEconomy
Ukraine attracted $55.8B in direct foreign investment in the first quarter. As reported by the Ministry of Economy with reference to the National Bank of Ukraine, the volume of direct foreign investments in the economy of Ukraine (residuals) (equity instruments and debt instr... #ForeignInvestor #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #nbu #UkraineEconomy #UkrainianEnterprises
In June, the Ministry of Finance attracted more funds from OVDP auctions than it paid out to investors. In June, the Ministry of Finance raised ₴38.41B and $407.33M from the issuance of domestic government bonds. ₴35.3B of the total volume of OVDP issued in June were military bonds. The refinancing perc... #financeUkraine #investments #MiiltaryBonds #nbu #UkraineBond
A group of high-tech energy companies have suspended their investment in a new plant in Ukraine and plans to transfer production to Czechia: Why? At the beginning of this year, the EDS Ukraine group, under the leadership of Oleksandr Zapyshny, planned large-scale investments in the production of transformers and chargers for high-power electric... #BusinessRelocation #CzechRepublic #EDSUkraine #ElectricCars #investments #OleksandrZapyshny #Technology
The first project with significant investment within the framework of the “Made in Ukraine” platform received its initial evaluation. According to Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko, in April the government approved a procedure for using funds to support projects with significant investment within the framework of the Made in Ukra... #BusinessSupport #investments #MadeinUA #UkraineEconomy #YuliyaSvyridenko
€8B has been allocated to develop local businesses. The head of the parliamentary committee on regional development, Olena Shulyak, said that every community will find advantages for itself in each component of the Ukraine Facility program, under which... #businessinukraine #investments #OlenaShulyak #SupportBusiness #UkraineFacility
The EBRD identified the state and problems of Ukrainian business. After two years of full-scale war, most Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) managed to stabilize their activities, indicating their high adaptability to war conditions, the EBRD notes ... #businessinukraine #BusinessProblem #ebrd #EmployeeDeficit #investments #UkraineBusinessActivity
