MI: Ukrainian Pitch

Yura Lazebnikov is an investor and co-founder of WePlay Studios, a content-driven production company. He is also a co-founder of the NGO “Techiia Foundation,” which since 2018 has invested over UAH 20 million in social projects focused on the Ukrainian army, healthcare, and the development of STEM education. LinkedIn of Yura Lazebnikov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yura-lazebnikov/ About WePlay Stu...

Ivan Kaunov – co-founder of fintech company Finmap. Online, nowadays serving in the Ukrainian Army. On this podcast, he presents defense tech startup BUNTAR. Pitch deck of BUNTAR: https://docsend.com/view/wutan9rimdtvcd6k Ivan Kaunov on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaunov-ivan/ On this podcast, Dominique Piotet, co-founder of the Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed with Ivan Kaunov opportun...

Arnaud Lumet plays a pivotal role as a Founding Board Member of the Luxembourg Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and the Tech & Innovation Lead. Arnaud's journey into the tech ecosystem began with a strong belief that Europe holds vast opportunities for Ukrainian startups. Luxembourg, despite its small size, boasts a thriving tech ecosystem with over 500 startups, 15 incubation and acceleration programs...

Michael Chobanyan is the founder of the first Bitcoin agency in Eastern Europe and the CIS countries. Has more than 7 years of experience in managing Telecommunications / Internet Providers. Professionally studies Blockchain ecosystems since 2011. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chobanian/ • In March, 2014 Mr. Chobanyan founded KUNA Bitcoin Agency and non-government organization Bitcoin Foundation Ukr...

Zoya Lytvyn is Founder of Osvitoria NGO promoting the development and education reform in Ukraine. Zoya introduced to Ukraine Global Teacher Prize Award to enhance the prestige of the teaching profession. On this podcast, Dominique Piotet, co-founder of the Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed with Zoya Lytvyn resistance of the educational front in Ukraine. More about Osvitoria: https://osvitoria.org...

In this episode Dominique Piotet , co-founder at Ukrainian Phoenix Fund , discussed information security in the war time in Ukraine with Dmytro Bilash, co-founder & CBDO Osavul , AI company which raised $1 million in 2023.  Osavul is a Ukrainian AI company focusing on information security, countering disinformation, and information environment assessment. Name Osavul corresponds to the military po...

Ilia Kenigshtein, Founder of Creative States , shared with Dominique Piotet history of the foundation of the workspaces extremely popular among entrepreneurs of Ukraine's capital, and golden rules for creating a vibrant ecosystem, especially in a war time. https://creativestates.net/en Creative States - the fastest-growing network of premium flexible workspaces with a full range of operational ser...

Svitlana Malovana , CEO and co-founder at Teampulse, relocated to New York City to promote the healthcare startup created from bomb shelters in Ukraine. Teampulse increases employee engagement and productivity in a hybrid work environment via gamification and wellness challenges. Launched in January 2023, the startup achieved significant milestones: 10 companies and over 1,500 active users are usi...

Andrii Dligach is Doctor of Economics, Strategist, Futurologist, and Visionary. Also he is: Founder of the Board business community (1.500 Ukrainian businessmen globally) Co-founder of the Center for Economic Recovery Co-founder at Singularity University Kyiv Investor and ideologist of ecosystems and technology startups. In this conversation with Dominique Piotet Andrii Dligach shared his vision o...

Andrew Pryma came back to Ukraine in 2021 after a decade of life in the USA and a successful career on Wall Street.  In this frank dialogue with Dominique Piotet investor Andrew Pryma is sharing the story of foundation of a digital media UBN.news covering news about business opportunities in Ukraine in 7 languages and specific arguments for investing in Ukraine today and coming back to the country...

Valerii Iakovenko is Founder at Drone. UA . A medical doctor by background and a serial entrepreneur in 2013 together with a partner he established Drone. UA.  Today, the Drone. UA group of companies is TOP-3 the most innovative enterprise in the agricultural sector of Ukraine according to the FORBES . And is included in the list of the TOP-20 most innovative enterprises in Ukraine.  Before full-s...

In February 2022, the Swiss magazine L'Illustré published an article about pre-war Ukraine and included a story about the innovation park  UNIT.City Dominique Piotet was running at that moment as an example of a developing and blooming Ukraine. On the podcast Swiss photojournalist Niels Ackermann and French journalist Sébastien Gobert , both specializing on Ukraine,  speak from the perspective of...

Viroslava Novosylna , CEO & Founder PR agency SLOVA Tech PR , co-founder of the international non-profit community of women in tech Wtech , Board member at Advisory board PRCA , VC/PR Partner at TA Ventures and PR Army co-founder, TechStars Paris mentor. It's the conversation about the unstoppable Ukrainian entrepreneurial spirit, tech companies in a wartime, and the Ukrainian PR army fighting for...

Fedir Serdiuk (born in 1995, in Odesa, Ukraine) is an entrepreneur and co-founder of FAST / PULSE &  Beta-Victory technologies. Also, he is an advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine and a Board Member of the Ukrainian Startup Fund. During his career, most of the projects initiated by Fedir Serdiuk were focused on solving safety issues. Serdiuk spent several years as a Red Cross Rescue Team...

Alex Bornyakov is the Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation and Head of the Diia City project. The last time Dominique Piotet and Alex Bornyakov spoke on this podcast was in October 2020 https://mayak-innovatsiy.simplecast.com/episodes/mayak-innovatsiy-season3-episode2-alex-bornyakov-diia-city In this episode, Alex shared the news on behalf of the Ministry of the Ukra...

Alex Solovei and Ivan Kaunov are co-founders of the cash flow management platform Finmap.  War time episode oh the podcast was recorded on April, 26, 2023, while Ivan Kaunov is still fighting in the war in Ukraine. Finmap was founded in 2019.  At the beginning of 2021, the team was joined by Dmytro Dubilet, who is also a co-founder of monobank. In 2020 and 2021, the company received two rounds of...

Roman Torgovitsky , Ph. D. is a Harvard-trained biomedical scientist (biostatistics/epidemiology/sleep medicine), author, TEDx speaker, medical and health disruptive innovator, philanthropist, and founder of Healing War Scars, a non-profit dedicated to helping veterans and civilians to overcome war-induced mental and physical health problems. Roman's passion for medical and health innovation was b...

This week Dominique Piotet is attending TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada .  It's a global event bringing together a group of industry leaders and impactful people for unique, multi-day experiences dedicated to TED’s global mission of sharing meaningful new ideas. Today's episode is just a small and warm hello from Dominique to the friends of the podcast "Mayak Innovatsiy: Ukrainian Pitch". Stay...

Maryna Pavliuk, General Manager in Ukraine & Sacha Michaud, Co-Founder at Glovo , shared with Dominique Piotet news about the company in general and amazing news on behalf of Glovo's people in Ukraine in wartime 2022-2023. Listen to the previous conversation between Dominique Piotet and Sacha Michaud recorded in March 2022: https://mayak-innovatsiy.simplecast.com/episodes/mi-ukrainian-pitch-glovo

Kostiantyn Tupikov is a Creative Lead at ITKey. Media, a Warsaw-based English-speaking media established in 2015 and one of not many covering stories about startups, investments, and tech innovation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe overall.  Dominique Piotet discussed with Kostiantyn Tupikov the situation on the market during a full-scale invasion of russia to Ukraine,  the news on behalf of Ukrainia...

Vitalii Lopushanskyi is the Founder of UADAMAGE , AI Partner, and Advisor of Team4UA by HIT. Host - Dominique Piotet , board member at UNIT.City , co-founder at Ukrainian Phoenix Fund (based in USA), co-founder at NGO Team4UA by Humanitarian Innovative Technologies (based in Lviv) & US representative of Beetroot. This episode is recorded in wartime on March 29, 2023, in San Francisco and Kyiv, onl...

Vlad Savchenko – Ukrainian IT businessman, President of the European association of software engineering, founder of Powercode — International IT company and Foodex24 delivery service. Dominique Piotet discussed with Vlad the situation in IT market of Ukraine during wartime. https://it-ease.com/en/ MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast. Bar.

Lesha Shaldenko, CEO at Wantent, spent 32 days in a bomb shelter in Kyiv and kept working for his company and cooperating with video production companies, OTT platforms, TV channels, and advertising agencies across the world. Wantent is a unique AI-based platform that identifies consumer reactions to the content and provides an analysis of the emotional connection between client and product by app...

TechUkraine is a non-governmental organization and media platform that represents the voices of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. In this episode, editor-in-chief of TechUkraine.org Iryna Supruniuk shared numbers of relocated Ukrainian IT specialists, news on behalf of companies helping Ukraine and its people, and a vision of how to rebuild Ukraine and its tech ecosystem once the war is over. A lot of...

Elon Musk, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, and many other celebrities use the Ukrainian app Reface. The Reface app is a leader in AI/ML technologies for personalized content creation and hit #1 in the App Store soon after release. Also, Reface is famous for receiving a $5.5 million investment from the Andreessen Horowitz Foundation of America and business angels just in 26 hours after the...