MI: Ukrainian Pitch

Last week Spanish online delivery platform Glovo has partially resumed operations across 20 Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, to provide essential services and give humanitarian support. Having suspended all operations on Feb. 24 after Russia invaded, Glovo restarted in a limited capacity due to an increased demand for vital services to residents and NGOs who are unable to access food,...

Yegor Aushev, co-founder of Kyiv-based cybersecurity company Cyber Unit Technologies, together with more than 1,000 hackers is defending Ukraine from DoS attacks and helping organize a makeshift Ukrainian coalition of hackers that has carried out cyberattacks targeting Russia. You can join the cyber army of Ukraine messaging to Yegor Aushev on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-yegor-aushev-5...

Bill Reichert is a venture capitalist and Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures from Silicon Valley. He works with startups and entrepreneurs helping them to get to wow and to grow into legendary companies. Among Bill’s cases are SpaceX and Airbnb, for instance. This episode is not a regular interview. It’s a mantra for those who dare to dream big and make an impact. Recorded in November 2021, during K...

Nik Gowing is the Founder of Thinking the Unthinkable. The independent project helps leaders embrace threats and opportunities in the new era of radical uncertainty and disruption. https://www.thinkunthink.org/ Also, you may know Nik as the main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented 'The Hub with Nik Gowing', BBC World Debates, Dateline L...

Chris Burry is Co-CEO of USMAC which is helping the founders of non-US technology to build great companies that can succeed not only in their local market but in global markets as well. In the past 5 years, USMAC has worked with the founders of more than 2,000 startups from more than 40 countries, including founders in Ukraine. What is USMAC’s mission? What is effectuation in entrepreneurship? Lis...

This time Dominique Piotet, CEO at UNIT.City, is a hero of “Інше інтерв’ю” (Different Interview), the podcast #1 in Ukraine by Volodymyr Anfimov. It’s a frank conversation about Ukraine’s image in the world, about challenges the world is facing today, and about the mindset of a rebel. The episode is available in Ukrainian: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3je3Dlt Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3b...

The world of work is changing. Artificial intelligence and automation replace a lot of jobs and create new ones. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated existing trends and caused organizations to reevaluate many aspects of work. In this episode Dominique Piotet, CEO at UNIT.City, Vadim Rogovsky, Founder at 3DLOOK, Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Founder at Petcube, Jan Peter de Jong, Country Manager at Microsoft Ukrai...

Episode # 2 (36) Season 5. Nicolas Brusson is CEO and co-founder of BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network enabling over 100 million members to share a ride across 22 markets. BlaBlaCar’s environmentally and human-friendly mobility network saves 1.6M tons of CO2 and enables 120M human encounters every year. Nicolas leads the company’s global operations and inter...

Episode # 1 (35) Season 5 FINMAP is a cash flow management for modern business. It's a young but already global company. On MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch we've been talking about a way of an entrepreneur, about smart acceleration with 500 Startups and Startup Wise Guys, and about the art of dealing with money. From Ukraine to the world. https://finmap.online/en/ Produced by The Podcast Bar and...

Vadim Rogovsky is CEO & Co-Founder at 3DLOOK which is transforming fashion retail and manufacturing industries by providing contactless real-time body measurements and size recommendations to end consumers. Raised money from some of the most prominent investors - 500 Startups, Boost VC, Natalia Vodianova, and received the LVMH Innovation Award. We were talking about 3D scanning technology, the fut...

Andriy Fedoriv is Founder and CEO of creative investment company FEDORIV GROUP, which include: FEDORIV AGENCY (international marketing agency), FEDORIV HUB (the next-level event platform & public multimedia space), FEDORIV VLOG (YouTube channel with 100 000+ subscribers). We were discussing what it means to be a Brand Father and creative capitalist, how to create global brands, and make early-stag...

Oleg Kurchenko is Founder & CEO of Binaryx Exchange, Buying, Selling, and Trading Cryptocurrencies. We were talking about trends in the crypto world, mining, hackers, tokenization of everything, NFT, and the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya. Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Andreas Flodström is an entrepreneur & CEO. 9 years ago he moved from Sweden to Ukraine and co-founded the Swedish-Ukrainian IT companies Beetroot & Beetroot Academy, now totaling 500+ team members. Beetroot helps VC-funded startups and large enterprises to scale their R&D capacity, in a sustainable way. Beetroot Academy teaches intensive IT courses and has 3,200 graduates, 70% of which were emplo...

This episode aims to bridge the gap between large corporations and startups and show how they collaborate. On behalf of the corporation is Mark Sawchuk, Country Manager at L'Oreal Ukraine. Startups are represented by Adam Golovenko, Founder of Supplio, a platform that integrates suppliers and beauty salons into a single system. We were talking about innovations in the beauty industry and the ideas...

Dasha Kichuk is CEO and Co-Founder of Effa which is creating sustainable products, aiming to replace disposable plastics around the World. Together with her husband Dasha launched Effa company to create toothbrushes made of paper. Among clients of Effa are famous hotel chains, airlines, and even Netflix. https://effabrush.com/ This episode was recorded in NEST, a space in UNIT.City entirely dedica...

Mark Patchett is e-commerce Entrepreneur and Founder of Growth Shop, an international marketing agency and one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in the world. In less than 2 years, GS has grown by more than $ 1 billion. The company’s offices are based in the UK, Ukraine and Vietnam. We’ve been talking about e-commerce. How does it work? What are the key components of growing a company on...

Max Gurvits is a US/European entrepreneur, Chief Host at Summit Summit & Partner at Vitosha Venture Partners. Active in Europe and the Middle East as startup advisor and investor, Max is particularly focused on Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Also, Max runs TRACTION Camp, a series of three-day workshops with Silicon Valley operators, for top founders in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. We’ve been t...

Daniel Szemerey co-founded and spearheads the growth of Health Venture Lab, a pan-European Healthtech accelerator with offices in Hungary, Spain and Poland. HVL covers the full pipeline, from need-based research, through early-stage product-market fit iteration, to growth-stage companies. If you want to apply, pls go: https://hvlab.eu/ We were talking about MedTech trends, immortality and the merg...

Ivan Dorn is a singer, DJ and producer, MTV European Music Awards winner. His music combines elements of house, disco, pop, jazz, funk, UK garage, hip-hop and soul. He is a champion in ballroom dancing and sailing. He is also good in chess, tennis and football.  In 2016, Ivan started Masterskaya, a music hub and an independent music label focused on bringing the exciting sound of Ukrainian undergr...

Andrii Degeler is a journalist and podcast host based in the Netherlands. He is covering tech news since 2007 for Tech. EU, Engadget, TNW, Ars Technica UK, the Kyiv Post, and more. We’ve been talking about recent tech news, and about the perception of the Ukrainian IT-ecosystem in Europe.  Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya. Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Yura Lazebnikov is a managing partner of esports media holding company WePlay Esports which is developing esports studios and arenas from Kyiv to Los Angeles. We discussed trends in esports, spectacular tournaments, earnings of top-ranking players, and Ukraine's advantages in terms of esports. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya. Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Giorgi Iukuridze — co-founder of SHABO, the biggest and the most innovative winery in Ukraine. We’ve been talking about technologies in agriculture and in winemaking. What is so special about Ukrainian wine? Which technologies do help winemakers? Can we trust a robot sommelier? How did COVID change the consumption of wine? Is that true that a glass of sparkling wine could be equal to a 30 min walk...

Alexander "ZeroGravity" Kokhanovskyy has more than 20 years of experience in the esports and the gaming industry. He is the CEO & Co-Owner of DreamTeam - the first esports and gaming recruitment and management network. He built the 2nd most popular and one of the most successful teams in the history of esports - Natus Vincere (Na`Vi) and is the Co-Owner of ESForce, the 3rd biggest esports entity f...

Jan Peter de Jong has over 20 years of sales and management experience in digital transformation. As a Country Manager of Microsoft in Ukraine, Jan Peter is focusing on digitization, philanthropy, education, and the overall progress of Ukraine. Jan Peter graduated with a master's in Astronomy at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Thanks to scientific research at the beginning of his career, and...

Vitaly Sych — Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Novoye Vremya”, one of the leading media in Ukraine. We were talking about the standards of genuine journalistic, about media as a business, about fake news and social media as a massive phenomenon, about technologies such as AI behind the modern media, and its chances to compete with a human being in journalism. Also, from this episode, you can find...