Maia Yarova

Ukrainian AI startup Swarmer secures funding from D3 Accelerator

Ukrainian AI startup Swarmer, which has a goal of simplifying drone operations for people with AI, has secures funding from the D3 VC fund and accelerator. Swarmer told AIN.Capital the news. The investment amount is not disclosed. It is known,

Toloka.vc to invest $1M in Ukrainian NewHomesMate. It shares details of this and other deals

On October 17, a Ukrainian venture capital syndicate, Toloka.vc, finally closed a nearly $1 million investment in Forta Health. This American medical service helps treat autism by researching and deploying AI-powered clinical programs. Now, the investors are working on a

“The current valuation is $10 million, the next one will be $15 million,” Ilya Popov, Comeback Mobility

On October 10, it became known that the Ukrainian medtech startup ComeBack Mobility had raised $500,000 in investment from ZAS Syndicate. AIN.Capital’s editor talked to the startup’s co-founder, Ilya Popov, about investments, plans, acceleration at TechStars (which the team joined a month

How Ukrainians created a €400 “cloak of invisibility” against Russian thermal imaging cameras

Ukrainian developers crafted a cloak that makes defenders invisible to Russian TICs and drones with thermographic cameras. On October 4, the Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, reported about the project on his Telegram channel. However, it has been in development

“We received our first investment on the day the war started,” founder of Deskree, a startup that raised $1.5M

On September 20, it became known that Ukrainian Dmytro Grechko’s startup Deskree had raised $1.5 million in seed funding. Deskree is a service for no-code backend infrastructure development that can save businesses of any size up to 40% of the

From IT developer at 18 to CTO in the US at 22. The story of a programmer from a little town in Ukraine

Yev Rachkovan grew up in a small town in the Cherkasy region, Ukraine, and has already had an eventful career for a 22-year-old guy. At the age of 18, he worked as a full-stack developer at a Ukrainian IT company,

Wargaming lost $250M from exiting the Russia and Belarus: interview with company’s CFO

In April 2022, Wargaming announced that it was leaving the Russian and Belarusian markets. The editor of AIN.Capital asked the CFO of the company Andrew Tinney about the reasons and consequences of this decision, as well as about what is

Four Ukrainians entered the TIME 100 Next global ranking

The new TIME 100 Next ranking has included four Ukrainian women. One of them is Anastasia Volkova, the founder of Regrow, an eco-friendly agricultural startup.