Made in Ukraine Tech Startup Edition, interviews with top Ukrainian entrepreneurs

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 Uk...

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 an...

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 h...

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/

JetBridge cofounder and CEO John Sung Kim talks about his career as a serial entrepreneur and his efforts to establish a part of his San-Francisco-based company in Kyiv, Ukraine. JetBridge helps marketing managers hit their growth targets faster through automation. The company was cofounded by software architect Mischa Spiegelmock. https://www.jetbridge.com/

MacPaw is an app development company with a number of successful macOS, iOS, and Windows applications in their portfolio. Headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, MacPaw has gained solid recognition among over 30+ million customers all over the world. Since 2008, the company has been developing apps with a strong focus on design and functionality to ensure exceptional user experience. CEO Oleksandr Kosovan...

Vimes is a boutique consultancy focused on trade and investment opportunities between Ukraine and UK. Dmitriy Gilgur, director and founder of the firm, talks about the major activities of the company and its efforts to put Ukrainian tech startups in front of British and EU VC's. https://vimesvc.com/

PatentBot CEO and co-founder Nataly Vladimorova discussed the company's Facebook Messenger bot that helps you to register a trademark in 5 minutes in multiple countries.

Ring Ukraine, the home security products company, was acquired in 2018 by Amazon, the e-commerce retailer, for more than $1 Billion. A key piece of Ring’s success story is the August 2016 opening in Kyiv, Ukraine, of a small R&D office to work with computer vision and machine learning technologies. Ring Ukraine COO Kira Rudik talks about how this happened, the growth of the operation from a staff...

PromoRepublic offers content automation for social media for the SMB market. CEO and a co-founder Max Pecherskyi talks about how the company was started and the activities that have led to its market success. https://promorepublic.com/en/ For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociates.com . Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

Cardiomo is a wearable technology device that monitors heart functions and shares the data in secure AI-powered cloud storage for review by family, care-givers and doctors. CEO Ksenia Belkina and her husband Roman co-founded the company Cardiomo Care in 2016. She discusses the product and their efforts to introduce it into the consumer and B-to-B markets. For additional information, please contact...

YouTeam provides Ukrainian and other Eastern European software engineers to startups and SMB's. CEO Anton Mischenko discusses the growth of the company, which has offices in Lviv, London and Mountain View, Calif. https://youteam.io/ For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociates.com . Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael J. Buryk. All Rights Reserved

CoreValue is a major Ukrainian IT software consulting firm with headquarters in Lviv and offices around Ukraine and in the U.S. Igor Kruglyak, President of CoreValue, discusses how the company started and why major companies worldwide utilize its software outsourcing services. https://corevalue.net/ For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociates.com . Copyright...

Anryze Founder and CEO Anton Gera discusses his AI-powered tracking and analyzing software service for business calls. The Anryze Distributed Network offers natural language processing. It allows companies to transcribe their voice communications into a text with a single click and offers a simple and inexpensive solution for speech recognition. For additional information, please contact Michael B...

TechNovator is a Ukrainian-Polish startup that has developed a system for charging smart devices located up to 17 feet away from a base station. CEO and co-founder Leszek Sawicki discusses how the company was founded and what the future holds for its XE wireless charging system. The company web site is located at http://technovator.co/ . For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at:...

The BrainBasket Foundation facilitates the training of Ukraine’s IT specialists and enhances the technology education ecosystem. Program Director Illia Onyschenko discusses how the non-profit organization was established and what programs it offers to the technology community in Ukraine. For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociates.com . Copyright (c) 2018 by...

Roman Zinchenko, a co-founder of the Ukrainian Greencubator, discusses how and why the NGO was founded. He also reviews their Climate Innovation Voucher program to help companies develop and enhance technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the use of energy in selected industries. For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociates.com . Copyrigh...

The U.S. Ukraine Foundation (USUF) is a U.S. (Wash., D.C.) based nonprofit, nongovernmental organization launched in 1991 to support democracy, a free market and human rights for Ukraine. John Kun, Vice Pres. and COO at the foundation, talks about their various programs including those focused on economic development in Ukraine. For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mb...

Gotyu is a global, live tracking device for use by children, seniors and pets. Nataliya Stelmakh, CEO and founder of Gotyu, talks about the wearable technology product and her efforts to market and sell it globally. She also recounts her experience trying to get on the ABC TV show "Shark Tank". http://www.gotyu.tech/ For additional information, please contact Michael Buryk at: mikeb@mburykassociat...