Ukraine plans to increase the share of EVs to 75%
Ukraine’s State Road Agency (Ukravtodor) has approved a plan of measures to maintain the e-mobility of the country. It assumes that by 2030, the num…
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Estonian fintech Tuum secures €15M for digital banking development
Tuum, a Tallinn-based fintech, has closed a €15 million Series A funding round led by Portage Ventures, a global investor dedicated to supporting fi…
Eleven Ventures closes new €60M fund to invest in startups from Southeast Europe
The Bulgarian venture capital firm Eleven Ventures, which focuses on pre-seed and seed investing in Southeastern Europe (SEE), has announced the final…
Intellias opens a subsidiary in Serbia. It is its second office abroad
The Ukrainian IT company Intellias has announced that it will open an office in Serbia this spring. It will be the second Intellias delivery office ou…
Fin.do: a game-changing opportunity in payments
The way we live, work, travel, or even shop is constantly being reinvented. As a result, consumer behavior is becoming more demanding when it comes to…
Finnish market research startup Statzon raises €350k seed round
Statzon, a Lahti-based market intelligence startup, has closed a €350,000 seed funding round. Leading investor was Gorilla Capital, Aikainen, Nordea…
How to apply for Diia City residency: Cabinet of Ministries’ guidelines
Last year, Diia City was introduced as a special legal framework for the Ukrainian IT industry. In early February, an application procedure for the Di…
Polish Spotbrowser raises around $250K for new VR tool
Spotbrowser, a Rzeszow-based startup that develops virtual tours for the real estate market, has received around $250,000 (1 million zloty) seed inves…
Ukrainian aviation startup InputSoft raises $120k from Techstars at $3M valuation
The Ukrainian startup InputSoft has joined the US accelerator Techstars and secured $120,000 of funding at a $3 million valuation, founder and CEO o…
Belarus-founded interior design platform Wizart raises €1.1M seed round
Grodno-founded and Gdansk-based startup Wizart has raised €1.1 million in a seed funding round. It is a product company providing computer vision so…
CallPage, a Poland-based startup founded by Ukrainians, acquired by SaaS Labs
The Polish startup CallPage has been taken over by the US company SaaS Labs, as announced by the startup’s co-founder Ross Knap. The parties have no…
5 Key Qualities you should be looking for in a Startup Business Partner
Ukrainian entrepreneur and angel investor Eugene Vyborov posted on his LinkedIn page the article that describes how to understand if a person fits t…
GR Capital participates in the largest B2B Series B round in Austria
PlanRadar, a cloud-based SaaS data sharing and document management solution for construction and real estate projects, has raised a $69 million fundin…
Top 10 birth countries of American unicorn founders
Ukraine was included in the list of ten countries in which the founders of the US unicorns were born. Twelve founders of the largest American startups…
Polish startup Zowie raises $5M seed investment
Zowie, a Polish startup headquartered in the US, has raised $5 million (20 million zloty) in seed funding. The round was led by Gradient Ventures, 10x…
Ukrainian startup market research: business types, earnings, challenges
The Polish-Ukrainian Startup Bridge project has published a study about the Ukrainian startup ecosystem. The authors have surveyed 158 representatives…
How to build a great corporate culture for a 68 person remote team: 10 tips from ConvertKit’s CEO
The founder and CEO of the marketing platform ConvertKit, Nathan Barry, has built a 68 person remote team. His company earned $29 million in revenue o…
Lithuanian fitness app Walk15 nabs €270K
Walk15, a Lithuanian developer of a health and fitness application for regular walking, has raised almost €270,000 since the start of the year from …
“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 C…
Polish medtech Holo4Med secures $906K
Holo4Med, a Polish medtech startup, has totally raised $906,000 (3.6 million zloty) in three investments since the beginning of January. HoloMIAI, a t…
Ukrainian Finmap raises $1.2M from European and Ukrainian investors
Finmap, a cash flow management service for businesses, closed a new $1.2 million funding round. Presto Ventures, Sturgeon Capital, SID Venture Partner…
Latvian-British legaltech Juro secures $23M in Series B
Juro, a legaltech startup that provides an automated contract management system, has closed a $23 million Series B investment round for the US and Eur…
UK’s Koto becomes The Credit Thing
In December 2021, the fintech startup Koto, launched in London by the co-founders of the Ukrainian service monobank, has rebranded and relaunched it…
Yahaha Studios, Finnish platform for building games, raises $50M to launch no-code metaverse
Yahaha Studios, a Finland-based platform for building no-code, immersive games, has raised $50 million in three rounds ahead of its launch this year, …
Identomat nabs $3.2M. It is the largest seed round raised by Georgian-founded startup
Identomat, a provider of AI-powered KYC and identity verification solutions, has closed a $3.2 seed round — the largest seed round in the history of…
US giant Qualcomm acquires Ukrainian Augmented Pixels
Qualcomm, a US manufacturer of chipsets, software, and a service provider, has acquired the Ukrainian startup Augmented Pixels, representatives of the…
Apple adds 20% VAT to App Store prices in Ukraine
It has been revealed to AIN.UA that within the next few days (January 13–14), Apple will raise its prices for applications and in-app purchases (exc…
NEAR Protocol, a dApp platform, closes a $150M round
The Near Protocol team, which develops blockchain to create dApps (decentralized applications), has raised a new investment round. AIN.UA tells the de…
Ukrainian government websites attacked: How could it happen?
During the night from the 13th to the 14th of January 2022, some government websites were down due to the hackers’ attacks, also known as “deface.…
HeyCharge, an EV charging startup, raises $4.7 million
HeyCharge, a Germany-based startup with a Ukrainian engineering team in Kyiv that is expanding access to electric vehicle charging infrastructure, has…
Lithuania will get $1.2B from Taiwan for joint business projects. High tech is the priority
Taiwan announced a launch of a $1 billion credit program to help fund joint business projects between Lithuanian and Taiwanese companies. The initiati…
Best countries list for work and travel sees Portugal, Spain, and Romania at the top
Momondo, a service that compares prices on airline tickets and travel services, has ranked the best places for a “workation” in the world. Accordi…
Fintech Farm raises $7.4M to launch neobanks in 8 countries
Fintech Farm, a British fintech company creating neobanks in emerging markets, has raised a $7.4M investment to develop its new project. The round was…
Ukraine’s OneNotary raises $1.75M to implement online notarization in the US
The Ukrainian startup OneNotary, working in the US market, has raised a $1.75 million investment round. AIN.UA talked with its co-founders and is now …
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 officially postponed to December 8
The famous game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl has been officially postponed to December 8, 2022, according to the game’s official Twitter pag…
SoftServe opens R&D centers in Mexico, Colombia, and Chile
SoftServe, the largest IT company is entering the Latin American market, where it is opening four new development centers in Mexico, Colombia, and Chi…
Ukraine’s Magic Innovations creates New Year’s show for Burj Khalifa. Here is the story
The 2022 New Year Show for the world-highest skyscraper Burj Khalifa in the United Arab Emirates was created by a Ukrainian company — Magic Innovati…
Finnish Nosto acquires Lithuanian search platform SearchNode to strengthen in e-commerce market
SearchNode, a Lithuanian technology startup focusing on advanced search technology, has been acquired by Finnish AI-powered commerce experience platfo…
Binance appoints the General Manager in Ukraine
Binance has announced the appointment of the General Manager in Ukraine. This position will be held by Kyrylo Khomiakov. Kyrylo will be responsible fo…
Estonian Bolt raises $709M at $8.4B valuation
Bolt, an Estonian startup and app for on-demand transportation and delivery, has raised $709 million (€628 million) and almost doubled its valuation…
Europe’s most profitable apps in 2021, with Tinder generating $392M and PUBG Mobile — $404M
Sensor Tower has published statistics on the most profitable applications in 2021. The list of top 3 mobile games that earned the most money during th…
Lithuanian electric car-sharing company Spark Technologies secures €30M to expand in Europe
Spark Technologies, a Vilnius-based electric car-sharing company, has concluded a €30 million capital commitment in the form of a share subscriptio…
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 release may be postponed until fall 2022
The Ukrainian YouTube blogger OLDboi reported that GSC Game World plans to postpone the release of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl from the 28 of…
Finnish ad platform Smartly.io acquires London’s Ad-Lib.io for over $100M
Helsinki-based advertising platform Smartly.io closed a deal worth over $100 million with Google-focused creative optimization service Ad-Lib.io, Tec…
How to create an NFT in 10 minutes
Cryptocurrencies were on the rise in 2021, but the industry of non-fungible tokens (NFT) got most of the hype. Today even children can make millions w…
Estonian healthtech Migrevention raises €355K pre-seed investment
Migrevention, a Tallin-based startup developing digital solutions for the remote treatment of migraines, has completed a €355,000 pre-seed round, EU…
How to integrate a brand into esports: the case of WePlay Esports and Monster Energy
The days of brands engaging with their audiences through TV commercials or product placement in movies are over. Now, companies can tell the world abo…
TA Ventures increases its fund size to $75M and starts investing in Web3
The Ukrainian venture capital firm TA Ventures told AIN.UA that it is going to significantly increase the size of its fund — from $50 million to $75…
Polish InsurTech Gabi sold for $320M
Polish InsurTech Gabi has been sold to the global company Experian for $320 million (1.3 billion zloty), MamStartup informs. Gabi was founded by Krzys…
Lviv’s IT industry research: 511 tech companies and over 30k IT professionals
Lviv IT Cluster has published the results of the IT.Research 6.0 survey on the IT sector in Lviv. AIN.UA‘s editor has selected the most interesting …