Maia Yarova

Ukrainian Jarvi Games raised ＄3M in funding… From a Russian fund

Ukrainian game development studio Jarvi Games raised ＄3M to finance its open-world mobile game Vice Online. The round was led by Play Ventures with participation from Velo Partners and The Games Fund, Venture Beat reports. The editorial office of AIN.Capital

IT company Dev.Pro laid off 100 employees. What happened?

IT company Dev.Pro laid off 100 employees in Ukraine. The company explained that they were forced to take such a step due to the loss of a regular client. AIN.Capital tells the details. “As part of our cooperation at the beginning of the

Playtika lays off 15% of its staff in Ukraine, globally — 800 people

Playtika, a game developer company, is making massive layoffs. According to Globes, about 800 employees around the world will be fired. According to AIN.Capital‘s sources, the cuts will also affect the Ukrainian R&D offices, where a total of over 100

German author declined Russians’ request for translation of his C++ book due to war in Ukraine

The German author and trainer for C++, Nicolai Josuttis declined the request of a Russian publisher to translate his C++ book to Russian. The reason is the publisher didn’t want to insert the authors’ dedication to the Ukrainian people into

“The rich and arrogant guy ended up destroying excellent working culture.” Ukrainian Engineer on his quitting from Twitter

Elon Musk owns Twitter for less than a month, and already managed to do a lot of controversial changes in the company. The mass layoffs have become the biggest one, leaving Twitter with less than 15% of its initial staff.

GlobalLogic acquires Romanian engineering company Fortech

GlobalLogic Inc., a Hitachi Group company, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fortech, a software engineering services company based in Romania. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “This acquisition will further enhance GlobalLogic’s presence in Europe,

Financing Ukrainian startups during the war: where to look for investments

In a column for AIN.Capital Alexandra Balkova, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Startup Wise Guys, speaks about how Ukrainian startups attracting capital in wartime conditions, when opportunities are extremely limited. Ukrainian business continues to work despite eight months of full-scale

GR Capital launches the second €100M venture capital fund

GR Capital, the pan-European venture capital firm with offices in Berlin and Kyiv, has launched its second early growth fund — GR Capital Fund II, having signed the first closing of €30 million and targeting €100 million in total. AIN.Capital tells

Edtech startup Mate academy launches an office in Poland

Founded by Ukrainians, international edtech startup Mate academy launches its sevices in Poland. The company, which teaches programming for free until students get a job offer, announced the opening of its representative office in Warsaw earlier today. About Mate academy