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Summing up the year: the largest investments in Ukrainian startups and companies

Gitlab, $110 million The main deal of this year is definitely a new round of Gitlab, the IT company with its Ukrainian roots. A company with a co-founder from Kharkiv, Dmitry Zaporozhets, raised $110 million from Iconiq Capital, GV and

Ukrainians raised over $2 million from crowdfunding in 2018. Here are 15 most successful projects

Feel VR $500,000 Feel VR with $500,000 became the most successful Ukrainian crowdfunding project this year. The startup team is working over the gaming wheels and pedals. The main feature of devices is DirectDrive technology due to which the wheel

Poptop, a startup founded by Ukrainians, raised $780,000. Where will the investments be spent on

What does Poptop do? Poptop is an online event planning platform operating in the UK market (primary market), as well as Ukraine (subsidiary). The scheme of work is as follows: the client places a request for the provision of services

How DreamTeam conducted ICO and received $5 million from Mangrove: interview with CEO Alexander Kokhanovskyy

Tell us about the performance of the project DreamTeam now? We launched in November 2017, with a team of 8-10 people, we started to gain traction and recruit a team very quickly. Now we are closely approaching the mark of

A startup with a Ukrainian co-founder YayPay raised $8.4 million

A Ukrainian fintech startup YayPay raised $8.4 million in investment in the series A round. The investors were Information Venture Partners, Birchmere, QED, Fifth Third Capital, Gaingels and 500 Fintech Fund, reports TechCrunch. YayPay is a company that helps businesses

Snap bought a startup Teleport co-founded by a Ukrainian for $8 million

Liga.net website announced that Snap company, which developed Snapchat, started acquisition of a startup Teleport Future Technologies, Inc. The transaction amount is $8 million. The project became famous due to its Teleport app which allows to realistically change your hair color

GitLab, co-founded by a Ukrainian, raised $20 million from Goldman Sachs. The bank’s engineers asked to invest in the startup

Gitlab with the co-founder from Kharkiv Dmitriy Zaporozhets raised $20 million in the Series D round. According to Business Insider, Goldman Sachs Bank is the investor this time. The editor of AIN.UA received the confirmation of the deal from Dmitriy

Da Vinci Capital invested in DataArt with offices in Ukraine

Da Vinci Capital Investment Company has invested in DataArt International IT company, which has six offices in Ukraine. It is reported by Ukraine Digital News. The parties do not disclose the amount of the transaction. Da Vinci Capital informs that

An educational IT complex of 10,000 square meters will be built in Lviv. Investment in the project is $10 million

An educational complex with a total area of ​​10,000 square meters will be built in Lviv on Malynova Street. This will be a 10-storey building for the IT University “IT Step University”, which is created by the STEP Computer Academy.

Dmytro Zaporozhets, GitLab: “I believe that GitLab can be called a Ukrainian startup”

Is Ukraine your permanent place of residence? Yes, I live in Kharkiv. In Ukraine, besides me, there are two more people in the company. How many people are there in the company? Now there are 352 people total. You have