Investments in Ukrainian startups soared by almost 200% in the second quarter: Who attracted the most? In half a year, 71 Ukrainian startups received about $270.8M in funding. The number of financed companies increased by almost 200% in the second quarter compared to the first. Of the 71 companies, 53 ... #BuntarAerospace #Creatio #EsperBionics #FintechFarm #investments #Portal.ai #StartUpinvestments
Ukraine presented the first programs within the Ukraine Investment Framework. The Ministry of Economy presented an overview of the IFI programs for €1.4B, which will be implemented within the Ukraine Investment Framework (UIF). The programs of the first stage were approved by t... #Grants #IFIprograms #investments #UkraineInvestmentFramework
IT company Creatio becomes the sixth unicorn from Ukraine as the company raises another $200M. The Creatio company, which develops no-code platforms for automating business processes and CRM systems, raised $200 million at a valuation of $1.2B. This made Creatio the sixth Ukrainian unicorn afte... #Creatio #investments #ITcompany #Technology
Ukraine is preparing the Kozatskiy Hotel for privatization and will try to sell a nationalized agricultural company formerly owned by a Russian billionaire. The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) is preparing the Kozatskyi Hotel in Kyiv on Independence Square for privatization with a starting price of ₴155.4M ($3.8M). The hotel has a total area of 9,... #HotelKozatskyi #Investagro #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU
The pharmaceutical industry seeks to attract hundreds of millions of dollars of investment. The volume of foreign investment in the production of pharmaceutical products in Ukraine is estimated to be at least several hundred million dollars, according to the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. I... #Darnytsia #investments #MedicineProduction #PharmaceuticalCompany #URC2024
A new maritime industrial park is planned to be opened in Mykolaiv that will bring the city ₴180M in tax revenue. One of the basic components of Mykolaiv’s post-war reconstruction is the creation of a marine industrial park. This project was presented through the Measures for Economic Growth program, financed by ... #IndustrialParks #investments #Mykolaiv #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineShipBuilding
Ukraine’s Glovo delivery service grew by 23% from its pre-war indicators, and the Spanish company plans to continue investing. The company reestablished the business volumes it recorded before the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation by November 2022, the co-founder of the service, Sasha Misho, and the Director of Gl... #DeliveryService #Glovo #investments #MarynaPavlyuk #SashaMisho
Metallurgy and energy: key investments of Ukrainian business in the EU. The total amount of Ukrainian investment in Poland has already reached more than €1B, while last year, more than 300 Ukrainian companies started operating in Romania. In general, businesses from Ukrai... #DTEK #EnergoPlus #investments #Metinvest #ukrainianbusiness #VescoGroup
Vitagro seeks €110M to increase its biomethane production capacity, and OKKO will build a biofuel plant with EBRD funds. According to Vitagro, by 2030 35 million cubic meters of biomethane will be consumed in the EU. That is why the company invested €6M in a biomethane plant and plans to make additional investments with... #BiofuelPlant #biomethaneproduction #ebrd #investments #okko #VitagroGroup
In Berlin, Ukraine presented a $27B investment guide, and the EU launched the Ukraine Investment Framework. The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine presented its Investment Guide at the URC2024 in Berlin. The guide contains a detailed overview of key sectors – energy, transport and logistics, the agro-indu... #investments #UkraineFacility #UkraineInvestmentFramework #UkraineRecovery #URC2024 #YuliyaSvyridenko
UDP plans to build a shipbuilding industrial park. The Ukrainian Danube Shipping Company (UDP) wants to create a modern industrial park in Kiliya using its ship repair facility as a foundation. The company believes that the UDP plant in Kiliya is one ... #DanubeShippingCompany #IndustrialPark #investments #Kiliya #UkraineShipBuilding #URC2024
The global business community has created an advisory board for Ukraine, which will work on improving the business climate and attracting investment. Representatives of the world’s leading companies and business associations who are interested in investing in the Ukrainian economy have created the Business Advisory Council. The council’s inau... #BusinessAdvisoryCouncil #investments #SiemensEnergy #UkraineEconomy #URC2024
Epicentr continues to invest in Ukraine: The company will complete five shopping and entertainment centers and a logistics complex. The Epicentr K hypermarket chain plans to construct five shopping centers and a large logistics complex in Khmelnytskyi this year. The terms for putting these facilities into operation will depend on ... #BusinessInvestments #EpicentrK #investments #PetroMykhailyshyn #ShoppingMallsUkraine
The Inzhur real estate investment fund seeks to attract up to 10,000 investors to privatize the Ukraina hotel in the center of Kyiv. The National Securities and Stock Market Commission has registered the investment certificates of the Inzhur Hotel Ukraina joint investment fund. The founder of Inzhur, Andrii Zhurzhiy, clarified that... #HotelUkraina #investments #InzhurREIT #OceanPlaza
UZ plans to build a gas generation plant with a capacity of 250 MW. The state company Ukrainian Railways (UZ) plans to build gas power plants with a total capacity of 250 MW in various regions. UZ is among the five largest distribution companies in the country in term... #energyukraine #gaselectricity #GasGenerationPlant #investments #UkrainianRailways
Four companies plan to invest at least $2.5B in Ukraine by 2026. Metinvest, OKKO, Terwin, and Vodafone plan to invest $300-600M each to develop their businesses in Ukraine during 2024-2025. OKKO says that they have been working on developments in the biofuel sector... #BusinessDevelopment #EVA #investments #Metinvest #okko #VodafoneGroup
The largest Turkish construction company has invested $15M in Ukraine. EFE, part of the ONUR Group, is one of the largest companies in Ukraine that produces ready-mixed concrete, reinforced concrete products, metal structures, and paving stones. Since the onset of the wa... #ConstructionMaterialsUkraine #EFE #investments #OnurGroup #TurkishCompanies
Investors want to sell an aerospace company with Ukrainian roots for $1.5B. Investors in the Ukrainian-American manufacturer of rockets and lunar landing modules, Firefly Aerospace, are considering selling it for about $1.5B. Investors including the American private investmen... #AEIndustrialPartners #FireFlyAerospace #investments #NASA #SpaceIndustry
In November, a factory capable of processing up to 13 000 tons of industrial hemp will be launched in the Zhytomyr Region. Ma’Rijany Hemp Company plans to launch a plant for the primary processing of raw hemp materials (reeds) into long fiber (used to produce textiles, eco-building materials, etc.) in the Zhytomyr r... #IndustrialHemp #IndustryUkraine #investments #Ma'RijanyHempCompany #ProcessingPlantUkraine #Zhytomyr
Ukraine’s bond market: Investors focus on longer maturities. Last week, investors’ interest in UAH bonds with longer maturities sharply increased as they tried to lock in current YTMs for longer. Taking advantage of the high demand, the Ministry of Financ... #BondMarketUkraine #BondSalesUkraine #financeUkraine #investments #UkraineBond #UkraineMonetaryPolicy
The Polish State Bank will finance investment projects in Ukraine. Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) plans to start providing loan guarantees for investment projects in Ukraine, said the Chairman of the Board of the Polish Investment Agency (PAIH) Andrzej Dycha. R... #AndrzejDycha #BankGospodarstwaKrajowego #investments #PAIH #UkraineFacility
An American company seeks to invest in the Lviv region and build affordable housing. The American investment company Chicago Atlantic Trident will consider investing in the construction of affordable housing and industry in the Lviv region, said the head of the OVA, Maksym Kozytskyi. ... #ChicagoAtlanticTrident #Construction #HousingConstruction #investments #LvivRegion #MaksymKozytskyi #RealEstateUkraine
A company from the UAE is investing €130M in logistics infrastructure in Romania, which is crucial for Ukraine. Dubai-based port operator and logistics company DP World is investing €130M to connect Romania to the rest of Europe through sea and land trade routes and increasing cargo volumes by two million tons ... #ConstantaPort #DPWorld #investments #LogisticComplex #LogisticsInfrastructure #Romania
In 2024, Ukraine registered a record number of industrial parks. The government registered nine new parks in the first quarter of 2024, equal to the number registered in all of 2022 and exceeding 2021’s figure for 2021, when seven parks were registered. In addition... #IndustrialPark #IndustryUkraine #investments #JobInUkraine #UkraineEconomy
Tobacco company Philip Morris International has opened a new $30M factory in the Lviv region. The first production line at the new factory was launched in May, and four more will be put into operation by the end of the year, which will increase the factory’s production capacity to 10 billion c... #BusinessDevelopment #BusinessRelocation #investments #PhilipMorris #PhilipMorrisUkraine #TobaccoMarketUkraine #Львів
Metinvest is resuming investment and will focus on green metallurgy during Ukraine’s reconstruction. After the war, Metinvest will produce green steel at modernized production facilities that reduce the environmental burden, said the company’s top manager, Oleksandr Myronenko. With the start of... #GreenMetallurgy #investments #Metinvest #OleksandrMyronenko #UkraineDevelopment #UkraineReconstruction
A company from Kherson bought Dragon Capital’s largest warehouse for over $35M. Dragon Capital sold its Amtel warehouse complex in the Kyiv region. The buyer was Histion from Kherson, whose founders are entrepreneurs Oleg Lebedenko and Gennadiy Girin, who own the New Style door f... #Amtel #DragonCapital #Histion #investments #WarehousesKyiv
Kyiv real estate developer has kept every Ukrainian project alive and is investing hundreds of millions of dollars. Arricano Real Estate plc continues to invest in restoring the Sunny Gallery shopping center in Kryvyi Rih and constructing the Lukianivka shopping center in Kyiv, Arricano’s top manager Margus K... #ArricanoRealEstate #investments #MargusKurm #RealEstateDevelopersUkraine #RealEstateUkraine #SunnyGallery
A Ukrainian startup selling new real estate in the US is capturing the market at high speed. Ukrainian PropTech startup NewHomesMate, headquartered in Austin, Texas (US), launched a platform for finding and buying new real estate in the US in 2020. The startup was founded by Bohdan Hnatkovsky... #BohdanHnatkovskyi #investments #NewHomesMate #RealEstateSale #SofiaVyshnevska #StartUpinvestments
Ukrainian Kormotech conquers the world market; how and where is the company growing? In 2023, Kormotech increased the ratio of pet food sales between exports and the Ukrainian market to 31% versus 69% in tons and 27% versus 73% in sales revenue. At the same time, the growth in the Ukr... #BusinessDevelopment #investments #Kormotech #Lithuania #PetFood
A startup with Ukrainian roots plans to buy WeWork, which was once valued at $47B. Rentberry, a Ukrainian-founded startup developing a long-term housing rental platform, plans to buy the bankrupt company WeWork for $550-650M. The buyer will not assume any debt obligations as part of... #Coworkingspace #investments #RentalHousing #Rentberry #WeWork
Horizon Capital has raised $350M in investments for Ukrainian companies: Where and how much do they plan to invest? The Horizon Capital Fund has raised $350M and is ready to invest in new companies, said Lenna Koszarny, CEO of Horizon Capital. She expects the fund’s portfolio to grow to at least 8-10 companie... #BusinessDevelopment #HorizonCapital #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #LennaKoszarny #ukrainianbusiness
The EBRD provides a guarantee to OTP Leasing to finance Ukrainian small and medium-sized enterprises. The guarantee will cover 50% of OTP Leasing’s new subleasing contracts with a total value of up to €80M. Financing will be provided in two tranches of €40M each, the first of which has already been co... #BusinessSupport #ebrd #investments #OTP #OTPleasing
Despite the war, Kyiv International Airport seeks to attract potential investors. What conditions are considered? According to Volodymyr Kudak, the general manager of Master-Avia, the Kyiv Airport’s operating company, “We are trying to attract potential investors to develop the airport and grow its potentia... #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #KyivAirport #MasterAvia #Ukraineairspace #UkraineReconstruction
Four waste processing plants with a capacity of 500,000 tons will be built in the Poltava region, at a cost of $130M. By the end of May 2024, the Poltava, Lubny, Kremenchuk, and Kobelyaky communities will determine construction sites for new waste processing plants. The planned enterprises will be able to fully proce... #ForeignInvestor #investments #Poltava #WasteProcessingPlant #WasteRecycling
Venture capital investors have recognized Ukrainian Haiqu as one of the most promising quantum startups. After interviewing investors, Sifted published a rating of the 11 most promising quantum computing startups, including the Ukrainian startup, Haiqu. In 2023, European quantum start-ups received $781M ... #Haiqu #investments #MykolaMaksymenko #QuantumComputing #RichardGivan #UkrainianStartUP
The export credit agency receives wider opportunities for investment insurance. The government approved the list of military and political risks and the terms and conditions of risk insurance for the Export Credit Agency (ECA). The approved resolution will improve the legal regul... #ECA #InsuranceUkraine #investments #MilitaryRiskInsurance #PoliticalRisk
Ukraine launches an accelerator for military startups. The Defence Builder Accelerator program was launched for startups that are interested in creating innovative solutions with military applications and who are also ready to develop projects at the mili... #DefenceBuilderAccelerator #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DefenseTechnology #investments
The National Bank explains why in 2023, real GDP grew by 5.3%. As reported by the NBU, public sector consumption increased by 9% over the year, and its share in GDP in 2023 reached almost 42% compared to about 18% in 2021. Private consumption grew by 6.1% thanks ... #GDPinUkraine #investments #nbu #UkraineEconomicActivity #UkraineEconomy
During the first quarter, 18 Ukrainian startups attracted at least $42M in venture investment. As noted, the quarterly figure may be higher, because not all deals were public. So, due to its non-public nature, the potentially largest investment on the list did not make it on the list. In Januar... #Carmoola #Himera #investments #OneNotary #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP #Viseven
Metinvest plans to invest in Ukraine’s reconstruction, but there are obstacles. The general director of the Metinvest group, Yuriy Ryzhenkov, says the expansion of logistics capabilities, currency liberalization, and transparent rules for booking employees are important condition... #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #Metinvest #UkraineRecovery #YuriyRyzhenkov
A Ukrainian animal feed producer increased sales abroad and invested €6.55M to expand production in Ukraine and Lithuania. Kormotech, a pet food company, ended last year with a turnover of $152M, exceeding sales plans by $2M. Sales volume reached 77,400 tons, up 15.7% from 2022. The company’s sales grew most dynamic... #FeedProduction #investments #Kormotech
The EBRD plans to invest up to €10B in Ukraine over the next five years, said EBRD Vice President Jürgen Rigterink. He noted that the EBRD, responding to the crisis caused by the war, is focused on five main areas of Ukrainian support, spread between the private sector and... #ebrd #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #JürgenRigterink #SupportBusiness #SupportUkraine
Experts have named the most attractive industries for investment in Ukraine and identified the barriers that should be removed. As Andrii Dlygach, the Director of the Advanter Group of Companies, pointed out, given its present course of European integration, Ukraine has huge opportunities in everything related to the green tra... #energyukraine #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #UkraineDevelopment #UkraineEconomy #Ukrainianmetallurgy
The state property fund will again try to sell the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky seaport. What else is listed for privatization this week? During the current week, the State Property Fund (SPFU) plans to sell the Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky Sea trade port, the Rivne radio engineering plant, the Kamensk distillery, and the Kholminsky distillery.... #BilhorodDnistrovskyySeaPort #DistilleryPrivatization #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU
Ukraine is launching a mechanism to support large investors. The government has approved the latest regulatory document that is necessary to launch the state support mechanism for projects with significant investment. Investors will receive maximum assistance a... #ForeignInvestor #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #YuliyaSvyridenko
A significant part of Ukrainian businesses is considering investment despite the war, according to data from the Institute of Economic Research. In 2023, 45% of surveyed companies invested in their development or restoration, and 44% were ready to invest in 2024. These are some of the ... #BusinessInvestments #investments #UkraineBusinessActivity #UkraineEconomy #бізнесвУкраїні
Bond Investors are Ready to Fund the War Against the Russian Federation. Bond investors are urging squabbling European Union leaders to get their act together on defense spending and make the bloc’s trillion-euro bond program permanent, reported Bloomberg. That means deman... #Bonds #investments #SupportUkraine
Analysts predict the creation of a record amount of Ukrainian warehouse space within two years. The warehouse market is experiencing difficult times due to a shortage of facilities. However, the problem could be solved by new projects announced in the next two years, particularly in the Kyiv reg... #CommercialRealEstate #investments #LogisticComplexUkraine #WarehousesKyiv
The national postal operator of Ukraine is ready for partial privatization and plans to increase operational efficiency and invest ₴1.3B in automation. Ukrposhta may become the first state-owned company to privatize a portion of its ownership shares, the company’s GM, Ihor Smilyanskyi, said. According to him, to begin with, the entity may sell ... #IhorSmilyansky #investments #PrivatizationUkraine #Ukrposhta
