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24.04.23

News

American Lyft lays off at least 1,200 people. Ukrainian office will be cut by 20%

The US-based service Lyft has announced a new wave of layoffs. We will remind, Lyft opened an office in Ukraine and started recruiting the team back in 2021. The Lyft service does not work in Ukraine, and its launch was

27.03.23

News

Ukrainian and American engineers develop RG-7 anti-drone rifle costing $12,000

The founder of DroneUA, Valeriy Iakovenko, wrote about the new anti-drone rifle called RG-7. The editor of AIN.Capital talked with Iakovenko about the details of the weapon’s development. The RG-7 is the result of the development of a group of Ukrainian and American engineers.

16.03.23

Countries
Ukraine

NASA signed a $112M contract with Firefly Aerospace to build a landing module

The American state space agency NASA has chosen another contractor for the large space program Artemis. This time with Max Polyakov’s Firefly Aerospace, Reuters reports. For Firefly Aerospace, which was founded in 2017 by Ukrainian entrepreneur Max Polyakov and which

13.03.23

Countries
Ukraine

Zelenskiy imposes sanctions against Russian bookmakers. Ukrainian Parimatch, Pokermatch, and Leo are among them

On March 10, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy enacted the decision of the National Security and Defense Council on sanctions against one hundred entrepreneurs and three hundred companies. The vast majority of these businesses and individuals are Russian, but there

04.01.23

Countries
Ukraine

Two Ukrainian satellites were on board Falcon 9 — PolyITAN-HP-30 and EOS SAT-1

On January 3, SpaceX successfully launched Falcon 9 as part of the Transporter 6 mission. 114 satellites were delivered into orbit, including two Ukrainian ones. It is the first of seven spacecraft that will form a constellation of satellites aimed

03.01.23

Tech
Investments

Polish medtech NutriBox secures €250k from Scanderia Venture

Polish medtech NutriBox secures €250k (PLN 1,170,000) from Scanderia Venture. The investors of the Fund particularly strongly support projects under which devices and solutions are created that have a real impact on the process of diagnosing or treating patients, i.e.

21.11.22

Special Projects

Nikita Izmaylov, founder of the N1 investment fund, planned to invest $5M in Ukrainian startups in 2022. The war has changed these plans

We are talking with the founder and CEO of N1 investment Fund Nykyta Izmaylov on Zoom for this interview. He is in Europe at Web Summit, like thousands of Ukrainians who went to Europe’s main technology conference. Izmaylov is sure

21.10.22

Tech
Startups

Captain Growth co-founder Dmytro Bilash becomes MP at Digital Future

The Ukrainian fund Digital Future has changed its managing partner. The fund’s founder Oleksiy Vitchenko left his seat and Dmytro Bilash took the position. AIN.Capital‘s editorial office briefly tells about the rearrangement. Dmytro Bilash is the co-founder of the Captain

23.09.22

Investigations

AI-chatbot Replika raised over $11M investment from the US. Now it’s spreading Russian propaganda

Replika is a chatbot companion powered by artificial intelligence. The company positions itself as an “American startup with Russian roots”. And those roots became quite obvious after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Via its chatbot Replika

04.08.22

Tech
War in Ukraine

War in Ukraine / August 3

The Molfar team sends a daily newsletter about the war in Ukraine. The editorial staff of AIN.Capital publishes the full version of the digest. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. Day 162: Mykolaiv will not be forcibly evacuated For the past two