Tech. Interviews

Interview with co-founder of NEAR Protocol: how Ukrainian-developed blockchain creates Web3

The NEAR Protocol team, which develops a blockchain to create dApps (decentralized services), has recently raised $150 million, and the Near token has long been at the top of the Coinbase ratings.  NEAR is a blockchain for creating decentralized open-source applications that offers developers

Nykyta Izmaylov, CEO and founder of the N1 investment fund, on how to get the first $1M

Read in Ukrainian Read in Russian In 2012, the financier Nykyta Izmaylov started working at Parimatch, where he became a shareholder and earned his first million in a few years. Today he focuses on his own investment firm, N1. His portfolio

“We are an artist-centric model that is poised for success,” Karen Chiftalaryan talks about Show4me platform

The Show4me Music Interaction Network, founded by a Ukrainian of Armenian origin, Karen Chiftalaryan, has raised $27.5 million in investments. It is a social media where fans can interact with musicians working based on the artist-centric model: on the platform,

“For the first few weeks, The Credit Thing got the same number of clients as Koto for months.” Mykhailo Rogalskiy talks about rebranding

In December 2021, the fintech startup Koto from London, launched by monobank founders, has made rebranding and relaunched its product. Now it is The Credit Thing, and it looks even more similar to mono. An AIN.UA editor had a chat

“We actually had our first office in Lviv.” Interview with founder of Settle, which raised $100M in two years

In late November, a cash flow management startup, Settle, raised a $60 million funding round to continue expanding its team and introduce new products to the market. The total amount raised by the company has already reached more than $100 million, although

“If you develop a game, it is not fun to play it. The exception was Heroes III,” interview with David Mullich

David Mullich is a worldwide known game developer and producer. He worked on the super bestseller Heroes of Might and Magic III and other games from the series, I Have no Mouth, and I Must Scream, Vampire: The Masquerade –

“We’re going to hire 100 engineers,” Vladyslav Yatsenko, Revolut co-founder, about its launch in Ukraine

In September, the British fintech company Revolut registered a juridical entity in Ukraine. It has already got employees from Ukraine, and now it seems that it will also have a subsidiary here. The editor of AIN.UA asked the company’s co-founder

“We didn’t need external capital for development” — Grammarly on the new funding and Ukraine’s office

On November 18, the Ukrainian company Grammarly announced about raising $200+ million in investments. Previously, the company had already raised $200 million, having received unicorn status and a valuation of $2.3 billion. However, according to the results of the new

Ukrainian engineer worked on one of the first 3D images of the coronavirus — interview

The resident of Kryvyi Rih, Yuri Svyrydenko, used to work in the metallurgical industry. Now his scope of work is biotechnology and 3D visualization of medical processes and objects. He founded a company and moved to California. In winter 2020,