An announcement from BVU Group via Ukraine Digital News / Mar 05, 2015 Next month startup entrepreneurs and investors from Ukraine and beyond will gather at the Kiev Startup Week(April 14-19), a series of events held in the Ukrainian capital. One of them is iForum, a key conference on the Eastern European IT scene with more than 5,000 of Internet entrepreneurs and business people attending each year. подробнее »

By Ukraine Digital News / Jan 28, 2015 On the fast-changing Ukrainian high tech scene, one fund, Fison, is conducting a pioneering experiment to drive savers’ money to IT startups. It claims that more than 1,000 individual investors have contributed $2 million in total so far in exchange for an equity stake. подробнее »

Here's a timely innovation for Ukraine at war: applications that help people facing life-threatening injuries. подробнее »

Ukrainian hardware providers bet on outsourcing production to China; Crowdfunded fund Fison to back foreign startups; How LiveUAmap became a global media resource. подробнее »

Because of the complex political and economic situation in the country, made even more complicated by the military actions in the eastern part of the country, investment in Ukrainian startups fell in 2014. According toYevgen Sysoyev, managing partner of AVentures Capital, the total volume of investment in Ukrainian projects this year has been significantly lower than the volume reached last year, which was equal to $80 million. подробнее »

This past Thursday, the Ukrainian investment fund Fison announced the winners of its startup contest. In addition to potentially receiving funding from Fison, the four winners will take part in UT GEM, a tech event dedicated to building and tightening ties between Ukraine and the USA. This event will take place on Sept. 18 in San Francisco. The jury included two figures from the Ukrainian startup ecosystem – Denis Dovgopoliy, founder of the Growth UP business incubator, and Alexander Soroka, founder of the startup investment platform Startup.ua – as well as Rostislav Sedlachik, owner of the asset management firm PIO Global, and Ukraine Digital News chief editor Adrien Henni...... подробнее »