Prisma: from Russia with love
The world is going artsy with Prisma Is your Instagram feed full of Munk, Chagall or Picasso styled pictures with a #prisma hashtag? Then, you’re following people who downloaded the app which...
View ArticleBikesBooking, Russian startup with global ambitions, got a pre-seed investment
I was on vacation in a small seaside town in Spain, with a beautiful beach promenade. I really wanted to rent a bike but the good old googling didn’t return any meaningful results. When I finally made...
View ArticleWant the mentor of Prisma, MSQRD, Maps.me invest in your startup?
Updated: on July 29th Gurski quit Mail.ru Group. The most successful IT entrepreneur in Eastern Europe Yuri Gurski (with 4 exits!) and Ukrainian gamedev-businessman Maxim Slobodyanyuk launched a joint...
View ArticleTwo “YCombinator’s approved” early-stage startups from Ukraine
People.ai and Sixa are alumni of the summer batch of YCombinator, “the world’s most powerful startup incubator”. People.ai People.ai was founded by a Ukrainian entrepreneur Oleg Rogynskyy. Originally,...
View ArticleGitLab, co-founded by a Ukrainian, secures $20M in Series B funding
GitLab, a developer of open-source software for developers, got $20M Series B funding from Y Combinator, August Capital and Khosla Ventures. GitLab was co-founded by Dmitry Zaporozhets from Kharkiv,...
View ArticleTypingDNA from Romania uses typing patterns to secure data
In May Google announced the plan to substitute passwords with a Trust Score, a security metrics calculated based on user’s location, face recognition and typing patterns. Google has been testing its...
View ArticleUkrainian startup Allset secured a $3.5M round
Allset is a San Francisco-based startup co-founded by Stas Matviyenko, Anna Polishchuk, Dimitri Nikulin, and Pavel Tirun, all from Ukraine. When it’s time for lunch, busy professionals usually feel...
View ArticleSlovenian startup Chipolo released new lost-item tracker
Have you often found yourself searching for misplaced car keys or cell phone and risking to be late for an important meeting? And at this very moment, you desperately wished these items had lost-item...
View ArticleLatvia-based drone startup Drofie to revolutionize selfie culture
Drone market is now worth $4B and expected to grow by one-third by 2020, and these gadgets are likely to become a trend in the coming years. Latvian-Egyptian drone startup Drofie gives users an...
View ArticleBillionaire Mark Cuban backs Kino-mo founded by Belarussians
A year ago we published a post about Kino-mo, a London-based startup founded by two Belarusians Kiryl Chykeyuk and Art Stavenka. They developed a device, named “holo-display”, for projecting...
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