Alcor is a business management consulting company with its headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine. The company specializes in business process outsourcing (BPO). Dmitry Ovcharenko, its CEO and founder, discusses the company and its efforts to become a major global player. https://alcor-bpo.com/
Founded in 2016, 3DLOOK is a creator of a mobile body scanning technology that uses a patented combination of computer vision, neural networks, and 3D statistical modeling to generate a 3D avatar and more than 70 points of measure from just two photos in under 30 seconds. The company has developed the world's first Body Data Platform and was recognized as the 2019 winners of the LVMH Innovation Award and the IEEE Retail Digital Transformation Grand Challenge. It was previously named by Coresight...
An interview with Dr. Igor Kotsiuba, the chairman and cofounder of the Ukrainian digital health company Healthymity. Dr. Kotsiuba and his team are helping to create an ecosystem for collaboration between hospitals and pharmaceutical companies on AI projects. https://healthymity.com/
The Ukrainian startup RefaceAI has developed an AI technology to swap faces in images and video. One of its products is "Doublicat" which is a face swap AI-tool for GIFs. Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shvets talks about the company, its products and its plans to become a major player in the production side of the entertainment industry. https://reface.ai/
Riddletag is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian startup offering facial recognition technology for the retail, banking, insurance and transportation sectors. CEO and cofounder Yuri Holuzynets discusses the company, its projects and plans for the future. https://riddletag.com/en/
David Gilgur, a founding partner with Blue Lake Accelerator, talks about the program of this business accelerator for Ukrainian tech startups. The accelerator is based in London. https://www.bluelakeaccelerator.com/
Anastasiia Romanova, the CEO of Mosquito Control Ltd, discusses a smart, eco-friendly mosquito control system developed by her Ukrainian startup company headquartered in Kyiv. Her company has participated in the EO Business Incubators program in Ukraine. https://semcs.com.ua/
Olga Afanasyeva is the CEO of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She talks about her recent trip with six Ukrainian tech startups to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. CRDF Global and its STEP program, funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, were partners for this activity. Olga also discusses the end-of-January Ukraine House Davos alongside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland....
CEO and cofounder Alex Galkin talks about his company Competera. The company offers a cloud-native platform for brick&click retailers to make optimal price and promo decisions. It was founded in 2014 in Ukraine. https://competera.net/
LvBS Center for Entrepreneurship is a relatively new accelerator for startups and an educational platform for students and young entrepreneurs in Ukraine. Executive Director Ivan Petrenko talks about how the Center was started and its technology business programs. https://ucucfe.lvbs.com.ua/en/
TechUkraine is creating a single communication hub for Ukraine as a technological nation. It facilitates collaboration with existing startup hubs, accelerator programs, VC’s, universities and Ukrainian tech entrepreneurs. Program Director Nataly Veremeeva talks about the NGO's various programs and initatives to secure greater exposure for Ukraine in the global tech community. https://techukraine.org/tech-ukraine/
Vitaly Kirkpatrick, who is a recent Ukrainian emigre to the U.S., founded his company in 2016 focused on wireless audio and assisted-living technologies. He talks about how he developed the idea and his plans to market his product in the U.S. and globally. www.clovitek.com
Solar Gaps offers smart blinds that automatically track the sun and generate electricity for home, office or other commercial buildings. Founder and CEO Yevgen Erik talks about how and why he started the company and his efforts to sell his product on a global market. https://solargaps.com/
Andrei Komarovski is the CEO of the Ukraine tech startup accelerator Sector X. Sector X is a program offered by the UNIT.City innovation park in Kyiv, Ukraine. Andrei talks about the accelerator and the tech startups participating in it. https://sectorx.city/
Zpoken AI CEO Anton Gera discusses the transformation of his original company Anryze into a full service data science firm. Zpoken is headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine. https://zpoken.ai/
Nanobot Medical Animation Studio provides 3D digital graphics to more effectively illustrate medical applications. Cofounders Andrii Koniukh and Yuriy Svidinenko talk about the art of scientific storytelling and how their company has helped major global life science and medical-product companies more easily communicate with their clients and customers. https://www.nanobotmedical.com/
Michael Puzrakov is the COO, Chairman and cofounder of the Ukrainian custom software development company Intellias. He is also a founding member of the new regional investment community Lviv Tech Angels. In this interview he talks about how LVIV IT Cluster was a catalyst for this new tech startup investment group and their future plans. https://itcluster.lviv.ua/en/projects/lviv-tech-angels/
UATAG founder and CEO Taras Rodtsevych discusses his product UATAG. UATAG is new, patented solution, designed to protect the authenticity of important valuables and products utilizing blockchain technology. It offers 100% counterfeit protection. https://uatag.com/
DeepTrait is developing self-learning AI capable of working with the full genomes of crop plants. Cofounders Sergii Shelpuk and Ruslana Radchuk talk about how the company was founded and the services they hope to offer to the global biotechnology community. https://www.deeptrait.ai/
Crello is a visual editor that simplifies the design process for everyone. It’s a simple solution that eliminates the need for complex design tools to create visuals. Chief Marketing Officer Nazar Begen talks about how the startup was founded and how Crello works. https://crello.com/
eō Business Incubators are a newly launched seed-stage, mentor-driven incubator program in Ukraine. They are facilitated by the USAID Competitive Economy Program (CEP). In this interview with Charles Whitehead, one of the founders of eō Business and the Director of the Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell Tech in New York City, he talks about the program and its plans to help Ukrainian tech startups. https://www.facebook.com/eo.in.ua/
Originally from Ukraine, Oleg is the founder and CEO of People.ai. Under his leadership, the company's Revenue Intelligence System (RIS), powered by AI, automates the capture of all contact and customer activity data to provide valuable insights across sales, marketing and customer success teams. Oleg is one of the industry’s most authoritative experts in data science, machine learning and text analytics, and known for successfully building and leading multiple start-ups from inception to scale....
Hideez Group specializes in cybersecurity and authentication devices and services. The company has offices in Kyiv, Ukraine and Reston, Va. In this update interview (Hideez staff members were originally interviewed in January 2017) CEO Oleg Naumenko discusses the current focus on the B2B market and the healthcare industry. https://hideez.com/
Marta Proksa is the Chief Operating Officer with Arkley Launchpad. The business acceleration program provides support for seed- and early- stage startups. Several prominent Ukrainian tech startups have participated in it. Ms. Proksa talks about the program and the just-launched new VC fund Arkley Brinc VC. For more information go to: http://arkley.ventures/.
Founded in 2010, Augmented Pixels has created proprietary software that enables drones and robots "to see". CEO and Founder Vitaliy Goncharuk talks about how he founded the company, who its clients are and plans for the future. https://augmentedpixels.com/
Preply is a global, online place for language tutoring founded in 2012 with offices in Boston and Kyiv. CEO and cofounder Kirill Bigai talks about the establishment of the company with its focus on learning language for business. https://preply.com/
In 2016, Ukrainian tech entrepreneur Ivan Pasichnyk was included in the Forbes “30 under 30" in Europe list of top leaders and talented innovators. His startup company, Ecoisme, is a home automation and smart home company. Its product is an energy monitoring unit that is attached to the main electrical panel in a home where it can monitor and sense appliance use throughout the house and pinpoint how better efficiency can be achieved. CEO Pasichnyk talks about his company, some of its recent chal...
Kyiv-based Concepter began as a consumer product design company in 2013. Today in addition to its core business, the firm offers consulting advice to tech startups and runs a hardware accelerator. CEO and founder Vlad Tislenko discusses the company, its challenges and plans for the future. https://concepter.co/
BIOsens is an an IoT biosensor to detect mycotoxins in food. CEO and founder Andrii Karpiuk talks about how the company was founded, the current state of its product prototype and plans for the future. http://sens.bio/
An interview with Anna Pryjmak, CEO and co-founder of Sirocco Energy. Headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sirocco Energy has developed a wind panel which is a linear wind generator for distributed energy production. It is especially designed to operate in an urban environment. Anna talks about how the company was founded, its product and plans for growth. www.sirocco.energy/
