Dmytro Demchenko

Ukrainian agency ISD Group gets bronze award at Cannes Lions festival

The project of the Ukrainian agency ISD Group has received the bronze award at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, reports the company’s founder Viktor Shkurba. The project received the award in the Creative Data / Data Storytelling category.

Ukrainian creatives are first from Ukraine to get Young Lions award at Cannes Lions festival

Art director of the Banda agency Ilya Anufriienko and Kateryna Anufriienko received the Young Lions silver award at the Cannes Lions festival, AIN.UA learned from own sources. Young Lions is an award for creatives under 30. The award is given

EA introduces FIFA 20 game preview. Ukrainians filmed it at the unfinished Darnytsia railway station

Electronic Arts have presented the preview for the new part of the FIFA 20 football simulator. The filming took place in Kyiv at the unfinished Darnytsia railway station, as “The Village Ukraine” reports. According to the publisher, the video in

Study suggests Ukraine has the fastest-growing digital advertising market in Europe

IAB Europe revealed its latest digital advertising study AdEx Benchmark 2018 (pdf). It was the first time Ukraine was included in the report and ranks first by growth rate. According to the study, the revenue from Ukraine’s digital advertising market

Ukrainian programming learning online platform Mate academy raises $580,000

Mate academy, Ukrainian educational online platform for learning of computer programming and searching for a first job in IT, attracted $580,000 investment. Genesis Investments acted as lead investor, TA Ventures and Intellias founder Mykhaylo Puzrakov also took part in the

Ukraine plans to cancel roaming with Georgia, Belarus and three other countries by 2020

Starting from 2020, a single roaming space will work in the Eastern Partnership countries with the EU – Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. It is reported by LIGA.net, referring to the statement of Johannes Baur, head of the

Сompany TransferWise with an office in Cherkasy raises $292M at a valuation of $3.5B

TransferWise, the operator of the same name international money transfer service, announced about raising of $292 million at a valuation of $3.5 billion. Thus, it is one of the most valuable private companies in Europe, Quartz reports. Investors include Lead

“The deal was sealed in two weeks” Oleg Rogynskyy, founder of People.ai, on new round worth $60M

Where will the raised funds go According to Rogynskyy, the startup plans to spend part of funds toward staff expansion. In particular, in Kyiv, where People.ai aims to increase the number of employees from 30 people to 100 in the

Ukrainian People.ai raised $60M. It was valued at $500M

Ukrainian startup People.ai, which is developing a platform for a sales department based on artificial intelligence, has raised $60 million, with a valuation at about $500 million, TechCrunch reports. Its investors include Iconiq, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, GGV Capital,