Olha Karpenko

Ukrainian startup Ecoisme winds down

Ecoisme, engaged in the development of energy saving monitor for homes, announced that it is winding down. AIN.UA learned the news from its co-founder Ivan Pasichnyk. “Partnership with a large European telecom company, winning various prestigious startup competitions incited us,

Ukraine introduces Hr 1,000 banknotes: its appearance and protection

The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has announced changes in nominal values of the Ukrainian currency. The new Hr 1,000 banknote will enter into circulation as early as on October 25, 2019. Coins with a nominal value of 1, 2

Ukrainian fashion group raises $400k from SMRK fund

Ukrainian Love&Live Fashion Group received a $400,000 investment in a seed round from SMRK Venture Fund. Love&Live Fashion Group is a Ukrainian group of fashion brands with headquarters in Kyiv. It includes the brands of clothing, shoes, and accessories Love&Live,

Bot&Partners, creator of lawyer bots for Telegram and Facebook, raises $20k for 10% stake

Bot & Partners has secured an investment from the company belonging to Andrey Khorsev and Alexey Ivankin and which makes Opendatabot. AIN.UA learned the details from Khorsev. Investment The size of the investment is $20,000 in exchange for a 10%

Viber now has own business development manager in Ukraine, considers opening office in future

AIN.UA learned that Viber is planning to open a Ukrainian representative office. We have reached out to the company to get their official comment about the possibility of an office in Ukraine. The information was confirmed in the company, but

Ukrainian business analytics service raises a round from a Finnish fund at a valuation of 1.3M euros

A Ukrainian startup Kira is developing an analytics service for small and medium-sized online businesses. Recently, the team raised a round from the Finnish Venture Fund Icebreaker.vc at the evaluation of 1.3 million euros and shared the product history and

David Braun to chair National Investment Council

AIN.UA has learned that David Braun, co-founder of Template Monster and Weblium, will become the secretary of the National Investment Council. Braun confirmed his appointment to AIN.UA but did not specify the exact date of entry into office. The president’s

Ukrainian startup accuses Apple of unfair competition. The company agreed to cooperate

A month ago, Ukrainian Kidslox and Spanish Qustodio filed a complaint with the European Commission against Apple’s actions, accusing it of unfair competition. These companies are developing parental control apps, and last year Apple refused to update them because of

Facebook appoints policy manager for Ukraine

Kateryna Kruk became the Policy Manager for Ukraine and will work out of Facebook office in Warsaw. This was reported by Лига.net with reference to Dmitry Zolotukhin, the Deputy Minister of information policy of Ukraine. According to him, Kateryna is