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Ilya Boshnyakov becomes the regional director of Viber in Ukraine

Rakuten Viber has informed AIN about the recent appointment of Ilya Boshnyakov, the former owner of AIN, as regional director in Ukraine. Previously, Atanas Raykov from the office in Sofia, Bulgaria, was responsible for the role. Ilya will be responsible

“No drone can fly that long.” AEROBAVOVNA aerostats and their manufacturing

Ukrainian defenders are using aerostats more and more actively at the battlefront. They are being used, in particular, to support the connection for drones and can stay in the sky for several days. AEROBAVOVNA manufactures such flying devices in Kyiv.

Ukrainian car sharing Getmancar enters the market of Moldova

Ukrainian car sharing service Getmancar has announced the launch of its services in Moldova. As the company told AIN, since April 2024, Moldovan users will be able to rent the Getmancar electric vehicles in Chisinau and travel throughout the country,

In February 2024, the volume of Ukrainian IT export reached $518M

In February 2024, the volume of IT export from Ukraine amounted to $518 million, according to the report of the National Bank of Ukraine. The number is the second lowest in two years. Partner country The volume of IT services

Ukraine-founded 1991 Ventures launches a $18.8M fund

UK-based VC firm with Ukrainian roots 1991 Ventures has launched a $18.8 million fund (£15 million fund) to invest in Ukrainian and CEE startups. The VC firm aims to support over 40 companies and will build on the Gurskys’ incubation and accelerator

International investments in Ukraine amounted to $1.7B over two years

Over the two years of the full-scale war with russia, the total volume of international investments in Ukraine reached $1.7 billion, of which $1.2 billion were invested in 2023 alone. The head of the KSE Institute, Nataliya Shapoval stated the

Embracer exits russia, selling Ukrainian studios Fractured Byte and, likely, 4A Games to russians

Swedish video game holding company Embracer Group has announced today that it is exiting the russian market and selling its “daughter” Saber Interactive for $247 million. The Ukrainian game developer Fractured Byte will be transferred to a buyer with russian

Ukrainian e-government application Diia is now an open source

The Ukrainian Government has made the decision to make the base code of the e-governement Diia application an open source, according to Mykhailo Fedorov, the Digital Transformation Minister. This will allow other countries to import the code and launch their

Grammarly co-founders’ net worth drops to $1.9B — Forbes

Forbes has updated the net worth of Grammarly co-founders Oleksiy Shevchenko and Maksym Lytvyn. According to Real Time Billionaires, their shares in the company have fallen by nearly 14%, and each now owns $1.9 billion in assets. Grammarly was founded