Illia Kabachynskyi

GitLab is targeting a $10 billion IPO valuation

GitLab, a company co-founded by a Ukrainian, will go public with a valuation of $10 billion, Reuters reports. According to the latest figures, GitLab’s valuation last year was about $6 billion. The company raised the target price range for its

DressX, a retail platform for digital clothes, raises an additional $1.3M

DressX, a startup developing a platform for digital clothes, has raised additional funding as part of a seed round. According to the co-founder of the project Daria Shapovalova, DressX raised another $1.3 million. The fresh funding brought DressX’s total amount

Ukrainian GitLab files for an IPO on the US stock exchange

GitLab has filed to go public. The exact date of the listing has not yet been announced. The company plans to list under the ticker GTLB on the American stock exchange NASDAQ, where shares of many technology companies are traded.

First Ukrainian neobank — monobank — is only three years old. Is it really worth over $1B?

Recently, one of the founders of monobank Oleg Gorokhovskyi said that the bank’s estimated value is more than $1 billion. The editors of AIN.UA asked market participants whether the bank can actually have such a high valuation. First, we asked

Dubilet and Vytiaz launch Fintech Farm, a new platform for neobanks

After news that the Kazakhstan-based Kaspi.kz acquired the Ukrainian Portmone Group to enter the local market, Facebook users started to see ads of the Leobank project. It is a bank without branches (neobank) in Azerbaijan, which is very similar to

Ukraine imposes sanctions against the Russian online store Wildberries and its founders

On July 23, the website of the President of Ukraine published documents on the imposition of new sanctions against several citizens of the Russian Federation – Tatyana and Vladislav Bakalchuk. Tatyana Bakalchuk and her husband Vladislav Bakalchuk are the founders

The International 10 in Stockholm canceled. Where would be the main Dota 2 Championship hosted instead?

Valve announced the cancellation of the International 10 in Stockholm, known as the Main Dota 2 Championship. AIN.UA’s editor shares the story and tells whether Kyiv has chances to host the championship instead.  According to Valve, the TI10 was canceled

Fruit and vegetable delivery service OVO closes a $500k seed round

Ukrainian startup OVO raised $350,000 in a seed round at a pre-money valuation of €3 million, as reported to AIN.UA by TA Ventures. TA Ventures, the ICLUB private investors club, and Imperia Holding invested in this round. Together with the

Kyiv hosts the most stunning Dota 2 major ever. Here’s how it went

At the beginning of June 2021, Kyiv hosted the second Dota 2 Major. It is one of the three largest championships where teams receive points for passing to The International, the main event for Dota professionals. The Ukrainian company WePlay