16.02.22 News Ukrainian bank and government websites under attack. Recent info The websites of Ukrainian state services and dozens of banks have been hardly attacked. AIN.Capital shares recent information. The first was the state-owned Oshchadbank: Yesterday morning, there was information that its ATMs, website, and app don’t work. The bank reps
02.02.22 Countries Ukraine Cab service Didi cancels launch in Ukraine and some other markets About a year ago, AIN.UA reported that the cab service Didi was planning to launch in Ukraine. Subsequently, it was confirmed by the first job opening. It is already February 2022, but the service has never been launched. The editor
17.01.22 Tech M&A US giant Qualcomm acquires Ukrainian Augmented Pixels Qualcomm, a US manufacturer of chipsets, software, and a service provider, has acquired the Ukrainian startup Augmented Pixels, representatives of the startup report. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. But the founder and CEO of the
14.01.22 Tech Investments NEAR Protocol, a dApp platform, closes a $150M round The Near Protocol team, which develops blockchain to create dApps (decentralized applications), has raised a new investment round. AIN.UA tells the details of the financing. NEAR Protocol has raised $150 million. Previously, the team has already attracted about $70 million
16.12.21 News Petcube CEO Yaroslav Azhnyuk joins Fuel Finance as a partner and co-founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, co-founder and CEO of Petcube, has joined Fuel Finance as a partner and co-founder, as Aliona Mysko, founder and CEO of Fuel Finance, told AIN.UA. Yaroslav will help develop the product and expand the business into western markets.
07.12.21 Tech Investments Swiss-Ukrainian Blocksport.io raises $6 million The Swiss-Ukrainian company Blocksport.io has raised $6 million. Vladimir Liulka, co-founder and CEO of the company, told AIN.UA details. The funding was secured during the Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Among the investors are FBG Capital, NewTribe VC, MEXC, LVT Capital,
18.11.21 Tech Investments Grammarly raises $200M at a $13B valuation (!) Grammarly has raised a fresh funding round. The amount of investment is $200 million. This is the largest round in the history of the company. The valuation of the business has grown to $13 billion, which is six times more
11.11.21 News GitLab co-founder Dmitriy Zaporozhets steps aside from the company GitLab co-founder and author of the company’s original idea Dmitriy Zaporozhets has announced that he is stepping aside from his role as an Engineering Fellow. At the start of GitLab, he was CTO of the company and later switched to
27.10.21 Tech Investments US company VistaPrint acquires Ukraine’s Depositphotos for $85M together with an image bank, online editor Crello, and other projects VistaPrint acquires Depositphotos for $85M. Dmitry Sergeev, a founder of Depositphotos, shared the details with AIN.UA. A Ukrainian developer of the image bank Depositphotos and the online graphic design platform Crello changed the owner. The American company VistaPrint purchased 100% of its shares. The
25.10.21 News Facebook sues Ukrainian — accusing him of collecting and selling data of 178M users The American company Facebook is suing Oleksandr Solonchenko, a resident of Ukraine, accusing him of collection and subsequent sale of a huge amount of data. The trial will be held in California. AIN.UA editor briefly explains the case. According to
