Tech. Investments

Ukrainian company Astound Commerce receives investments from Salesforce Ventures

Ukrainian IT company Astound Commerce, which develops e-commerce solutions for foreign customers, has attracted investments from Salesforce Ventures. This is reported in the press release of the company. *** Salesforce Ventures (SV) is the investment division of Salesforce, which develops

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,

Founder of PassivDom accuses Andrey Kolodyuk of extorting share in startup. Kolodyuk’s response

Maksym Herbut, a founder of PassivDom, wrote an op-ed called “Toxic investments in Ukraine. How to avoid a startup-destroying investor” where Gerbut alleges that AVentures managing partner Andrey Kolodyuk demanded 35% stake in the company and blackmailed him. In his

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%

Denis Dovgopoliy on what investors are ready to pay for, and what they are not ready to pay for

Denis Dovgopolyi, head of GrowthUP, shared his opinion about what investors are ready to pay for or, in other words, what kind of information they are ready to buy. AIN.UA published the article with the author’s consent. Little introduction In

Finnish-Ukrainian startup PromoRepublic raises 2M EUR

Finnish-Ukrainian startup PromoRepublic raised 2 million euros, informs its co-founder Max Pecherskyy. Investors are a number of business angels and Finnish Public Fund. It was a late seed round for the startup. By the end of 2019, the company plans

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

Ukrainian programming learning online platform Mate academy raises $580,000

Mate academy, Ukrainian educational online platform for learning of computer programming and searching for a first job in IT, attracted $580,000 investment. Genesis Investments acted as lead investor, TA Ventures and Intellias founder Mykhaylo Puzrakov also took part in the

Bas Godska launches the Dutch-Ukrainian Acrobator Ventures

Bas Godska, Dutch business angel, who already invested in well-known Ukrainian projects – Ecois.me, Zakaz.ua, and Newzmate – launched a venture fund Acrobator Ventures. The partner of the fund was the Dutchman Joachim Laqueur with experience in the field of