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
Grant support for businesses: What is being offered to light industry and eco-startups? To strengthen the competitiveness of Ukrainian enterprises and develop the economy, the USAID Program will provide enterprises in the textile industry with equipment to expand production. Businesses m... #GrantsForBusiness #SupportBusiness #ukrainianbusiness #UkrainianStartUP #USAID
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
A Ukrainian AI-based SaaS startup has secured Lifecell, Nova Poshta, banks, and retail outlets as clients. Ukrainian startups are developing the Getpin online marketing SaaS tool based on AI, which strengthens businesses with physical points of sale in the online space. The startup’s first client in ... #ArtificialIntelligence #Getpin #Marketing #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startups should focus on dual-purpose developments, and to attract investment from large funds; Ukraine should optimize its legislation. The head of the Ukrainian Association of Innovative Companies (UAFIC), Rostyslav Dyuk, said that at the beginning of the full-scale war, all startup funding was frozen because the money went to the co... #RostyslavDuyk #StartUpinvestments #UAFIC #UkrainianStartUP
Innovative Ukrainian startups will be able to compete for a €10,000 business development grant. The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is launching a pre-acceleration program for start-up entrepreneurs from Ukraine — Rebuild Ukraine. The program teaches teams to form effective... #GrantsForBusiness #InnovateUkraine #RebuildUkraine #Startups #UkrainianStartUP
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
What European grants can Ukrainian startups and projects receive? Women TechEU is an EU-funded project supporting women leading deep technology startups. As part of the project, a total of 160 startups will receive a grant of up to €75,000 each, as well as an indivi... #GrantsForStartups #SupportBusiness #TechnologyStartups #UkrainianStartUP #WomenTechEU
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
Ukrainian space startup attracts $4M in investment. Kurs Orbital, founded by Ukrainian space industry veterans, has raised $4M to accelerate the commercialization of its satellite maintenance technology. Based in Turin, Italy, Kurs Orbital led the seed... #AerospaceTechnology #KursOrbital #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
An American-founded investment fund plans to invest in eight Ukrainian startups this year. The co-founder of the investment fund Green Flag Ventures, Deborah Fairlamb, said the fund will invest in several Ukrainian startups, with financial commitments ranging from $100,000 to about $1.2M. B... #AstraNav #DeborahFairlamb #GreenFlagVentures #JustinZeefe #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
A Ukrainian start-up that extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere has attracted €1.5M in investment. The Ukrainian startup Carbominer, which captures carbon dioxide from the air, received a €1.5M grant from the EIC Accelerator Fund. Carbominer has already received a grant from the EBRD in 2022. In 20... #Carbominer #investments #NickOseyko #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
New Ukrainian IT startups are being offered grants of up to $50,000 for development. The Ukrainian Startup Fund and the Western NIS Enterprise Fund are grant programs that support Ukrainian technology companies, with a total budget of $2.5M. The program will provide opportunities to r... #GrantsForStartups #StartUpinvestments #UkraineITstartups #UkrainianStartUP #UkrainianStartupFund
Ukrainian defense startups are eligible for $200,000 in development investments. Ukrainian and American companies in the field of leading defense technologies have launched a program to support Ukrainian technology startups in the defense field called MITS (“Power”). T... #DefenseInnovations #DefenseStartups #investments #MITS #UkrainianStartUP
A new venture capital fund is ready to invest in Ukrainian start-ups. This year, the venture fund SMG Capital and venture builder SMG Builder were launched in Ukraine. The expected total amount of the fund is $10M, said VC fund partner Oleksandr Shynkarev. Currently, th... #SMGBuilder #SMGCapital #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP #VentureCapitalFund
Google allocates another $10M to support Ukrainian startups. Technology giant Google launched the second fund within the Startup Ukraine Support Fund initiative with a budget of $10M to support Ukrainian startups during 2024 and 2025. As in the first stage, the... #Google #GoogleForStartups #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
With assistance from USAID, Ukraine launches a platform to help startups find investors. Ukraine launched the Fundraising Lab – the Unicorn Nest initiative with the support and funding of USAID. “Within the program, we will select 10 Ukrainian startups and help them to attract... #DenysDovgopolyy #FundraisingLab #StartUpinvestments #SupportBusiness #UkrainianStartUP
How do Ukrainian startups feel in Ukraine and abroad, and do they plan to return? According to a survey’s results, 31% of startups received investment capital within the last year, and 90% of startups see high growth potential in the future. About 66% of startups assess their curre... #StartUpinvestments #Startups #UkrainianStartUP
ZAS Ventures will invest over $1M in Ukrainian startups in 2023. The Ukrainian venture consulting firm’s current investments already amount to $650,000; by the end of the year, they may increase by another $500,000. “By the end of the year, we will make... #AndriyZinchuk #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP #ZASventures
Ukrainian startup Pluspoint has attracted $400,000 in investment from Pragmatech Ventures. The company is developing a tool for managing brands’ online reputation, writes AIN.UA. It is reported that the team plans to allocate 70% of the funding raised to expand its sales geography and... #Pluspoint #PragmatechVentures #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
The new Toloka investment syndicate plans to invest $250,000 to $1.5M in startups. A syndicate of private investors Igor Shoifot (TMT Investments), Taras Kyrychenko (Nova Poshta), and Oleksandr Kolb (Promodo) have formed a new project. Their project aims to help investors increase t... #IgorShoifot #OleksandrKolb #StartupInvesting #TarasKyrychenko #Toloka #UkrainianStartUP
A new €12M grant fund for startups is launched in Ukraine. The European Innovation Council will provide €20M for the development of innovations in Ukraine. The Seeds of Bravery project will last two years and plans to allocate €12M in funding. In addition to ... #GrantsForStartups #MykhailoFedorov #SeedsOfBravery #UkraineInvest #UkraineRecovery #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startups present products at the largest investment summit, SelectUSA. Ukraine took part in the SelectUSA investment summit for the first time in history. Among the event’s guests are high-ranking officials of the White House, US governors, and representatives of m... #OleksandrBornyakov #SelectUSA #UkraineInvestments #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startup InputSoft attracted a new €250.000 round of investments. In 2022, the startup completed the TechStars program and received $120,000 in investment with a $3M valuation. InputSoft is a SaaS platform for optimizing human and technical resources and data analys... #Inputsoft #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
Here is the list of the most recent investments in Ukrainian startups in 2023. According to ain.ua, it is a relatively small amount of investment, but here are seven investment agreements for January-March: DressX, a startup founded by Ukrainian women that is developing a virtua... #StartUp #StartUpinvestments #UkrainianStartUP
Last year, Google doubled the financing for Ukrainian IT startups. According to the head of Google for Startups, Michal Kramarz, Ukrainian companies supported by the fund received $10M in funding during the war in 2022 and hired an additional 216 employees. But what ... #Google #ITstartups #MichalKramarz #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startup Deus Robotics has attracted $1.5M and plans to enter the US market. The Ukrainian startup, Deus Robots, which creates robots for the automation of physical labor, received $1.5M in investment from the SMRK venture capital fund, said one of the fund’s co-founders, Vlad... #DeusRobotics #PavloPikulin #SMRK #UkrainianStartUP
Foreign companies have invested in several Ukrainian startups. Ukrainian AI startup Harmix has raised $500,000 from Canadian investors. Harmix is a Ukrainian service based on artificial intelligence that automatically selects music for videos. In addition, the Am... #Harmix #Launcher #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startup Promin Aerospace plans to launch its first suborbital flight. Today, the company will test a solid-fuel engine for ultralight rockets and continues to make preparations for the first suborbital flight by the end of the year. According to the Founder, Mykhailo R... #ProminAerospace #suborbitalflight #UkrainianStartUP
Ukrainian startup GitLab valuation increases. The coding platform GitLab Inc is now targeting a valuation of $10 billion of its IPO and will expect to sell its shares between $66 and $69, compared with an earlier valuation of $55 and $60 per shar... #GitLab #GitlabIPO #UkrainianStartUP
