Startup Community in Russia and Ukraine
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Ukrainian Hot Startups List
Ukraine is a well-known major outsourcing destination with a lot of talented software developers. Over the past 5 years Ukrainian companies have been moving towards the product development stage. In 2011, the incomes of outsourcing industry in Ukraine amounted to more than $ 1 billion. This business employs 1000 IT-companies, that employ 200K programmers. But more and more developers leave their jobs and start their own startups inspired by success stories from the United States or Russia.
Type: Video Facebook (new social discovery platform based on interests). Airtime $33M in funding alternative
About: Discover new interesting friends and ideas. Use video to express your ideas to the rest of the world. Communicate with new and old friends by emotional video messages, calls, comments and video answers. Create, browse, and comment on video content.
Key Facts: $370K in funding, went viral in October 2011 and reached 280K unique in its first month mainly in the US (Techcrunch info). The Runfaces team plans to monetize the service by selling virtual goods, using a freemium model where the invisible status and personalized video player branding will be offered to the premium accounts. It also plans to introduce advertisement and sponsorship.
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Mobile 3D Augmented Reality Solutions for advertising, sales, entertainment.
About: iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry and Symbian(Nokia).Development of complex 3D models, animation and interactive solutions. Branding of our completed solutions for ads and demonstration of your products on iPhone/Android/iPad with the help of 3D Augmented Reality;Technology is currently monetized through both sales of licenses to B2B & B2C clients, and its own productsTechnology is currently monetized through both sales of licenses to B2B & B2C clients, and its own products.
Key Facts: 11 employees, Kill Zombie game, Created GlorAR (3D Augmented Reality Browser for iPad - info) Ukrainian AVentures Capital has acquired a 25% equity stake in Augmented Pixels(AR23D Studio), one of the world’s leading augmented reality technology developers. The deal closed on February 15, 2013. The company plans to use the money it raised to develop and promote applications, and to expand its international presence.
Location: Odessa, Ukraine
Type: Apps constructor
About: The first app solution they launched is for the event industry. The goal is to help event planners create mobile guidebooks for conferences, trade shows, expos, or other events.
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Location: Kiev, LA
Type: Ukrainian Eventbrite (e-ticketing service for event organizers)
About: The service is created for different types of events: exhibitions, conferences, forums, workshops, seminars, corporate, cultural, entertainment and sport events.The service is created for different types of events: exhibitions, conferences, forums, workshops, seminars, corporate, cultural, entertainment and sport events.TicketForEvent is rapidly developed in the CIS countries market and provides best payment options choice for Eastern Europe countries and the CIS market.
Key Facts: $3M in funding, 20 employees, Since the service launch 1,000+ events used TicketForEvent to sell 100,000+ e-tickets in one year. Startup of the Year 2012 in Ukraine.
Location: Moscow, Kiev, London
Type: online duplicate content checking and monitoring tool (analogue of the British Copyscape)
About: Instantly find copies of your web page(s) or automatically scan, detect and monitor your page(s) for duplicate content.
Key Facts: Best Web app in Ukraine in 2012, 6 month old, 10K users per day, seeking for the "smart money" and partners that can help in growing
Location: Kiev, NYC
Type: Mobile application that analyzes and evaluates 1st and 2nd level social connections
About: Endorphin builds up a social graph of your 1st and 2nd degree connections from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Foursquare. Processing digital footprints of your connections from all over around through our scoring platform Endorphin forms ratings measuring career success, influence on environment, common views and strength of connection in relation to you.
Users get:
- ratings of 1st and 2nd degree connections
- comprehensive summary on anyone on the web
- ability to find experts among connections.
Key Facts: $250K in seed funding from The United (Venture News). TechCrunch Moscow 2012 finalist
Location: Kiev, now San Francisco
Type: Commenting System for websites
About: The set of functions and a number of innovations such as crossposting to social networks, visualization of the hot zones of the text, folding to threads, multimedia attachments and easy online moderation, markedly differs hypercomments from other commenting systems.
Key Facts: 4 employees. Founded in Feb 2012
Location: San Jose,CA and Ukraine
Type: Ukrainian AppleTV
About: When connected to TV sets, the media players will provide a set of multimedia services, including television, video-on-demand, messaging, Internet access, video conference calls, e-commerce applications and payments.
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Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Flight and Seat Advisor app
About: Jets is the app, designed to help you fly with ease. It knows the best seats for 100,000 flights daily.
Key Facts: Best mobile app in Ukraine in 2012. 100 airlines, 100 000 flights dayli, 500 seatmaps (The Next Web info)
Location: Ukraine
Type: Social media monitoring platform
About: Helps major brand owners to listen to consumer opinions posted online about their products & competitors, and proactively manage their brands online reputation
Key Facts: Successful in Ukraine and Russia
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Statistical football predictions and betting tips
About: BETEGY is an online service that provides precise football predictions. It analyzes statistical data and latest news in order to calculate the best odds for its users when they bet on outcomes of football matches.
Key Facts: Successful in Ukraine and Russia
Location: Kiev, Warsaw
Type: A perfect landing page in minutes (Ukrainian LauchRock, but better)
About: A landing page by RocketStart could be very powerful single entry point: for generating leads, describing product, service, promoting event, latest music release or independent film, connecting an audience to relevant social pages and much… much more.
Key Facts: Finalist of 42Conf Moscow, Prototype presented at The Next Web conference in Amsterdam
Location: Kiev
Type: Sound Social Network
About: Hubbub GmbH develops innovative voice-based solutions for online social communication.available as an iPhone app and on web.
Key Facts: $300K in funding, 10 employees, founded in 2011
Location: Lviv, Ukraine
Type: International Online Interactive Platform (LinkedIn for TV/movie makers)
About: International interactive online platform for TV, film and multimedia professionals. KINOLIFE unites thousands of specialists, organizations, and film events all over the World. KINOLIFE is the best platform to find the team, equipment, locations, and transport for film and TV production; KINOLIFE gives opportunities to post and find screenplays, music for a film or TV programme, etc.
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Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Basecamp for the web and video designers
About: Skwibl is a web-based solution that helps designers and their clients solve communication issues using interactive collaboration on images and videos. With Skwibl a web or a video designer knows exactly what needs to be changed, can negotiate the details with the client and there is no waste of time and resources on messaging or long-distance travel.
Key Facts: $20K in funding, 6 employees
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Employee Time Tracking Web-Service
About: Yaware is employee time tracking service that automatically monitors all employee computer activity and Internet use. Yaware helps to increase employee productivity answering the following questions:
- when employees really start and finish work
- how much time is actually spent at work
- and how much time is actually spent at work
- what are the most popular time-eaters
- how much of working can be saved
- who is the most and least productive
Key Facts: Company is looking for the ways to expand.
Location: Ternopil, Ukraine
Type: Smart gadget for your pets
About: Petcube is a smart gadget which allows you to look after your pet with a built-in web camera. It also has a laser pointer for some fun interaction. You can control your Petcube from anywhere using a browser or a mobile device.
Key Facts: Prototype exists.
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Gloves that translate sign language into speech
About: The project was presented at the Microsoft Imagine Cup competition in 2012 and won the first prize. The concept of the project consisted of two sensored gloves and a mobile device, which entailed the recognition process. The project work was rated highly, but still this device needs a lot of further development.
Key Facts: Prototype. Best innovation of the Year 2012 according TIME magazine (info)
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: iPad browser
About: Company info - http://capablebits.com/
Key Facts: Crunchbase info
Location: Odessa, Ukraine
Type: Mobile app that keeps a photo diary of your life
About: Diarize is a new platform that allows users to share pictures of their daily life with the people closest to them. The Diarize mobile app reminds the user to take pictures at regular intervals throughout their day (eg. every hour) and provides an easy mechanism to upload them to the Diarize website whenever it is convenient for them. The website and mobile app provides access to the photos to those who are closest to the user and they can view and comment on them either. Additionally, for pictures they want to share with all of their friends they can easily post them to their Facebook account, thus essentially eliminating the need to use Instagram.
Key Facts: $50K in funding from EastLabs
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Ebay for online tutoring
About: Preply is a marketplace online tutoring. They help students find the best online tutors. Currently focusing on the test prep market with highly skilled tutors in the U.S. who specialize in the following areas: SAT, SAT Subjects, ACT, and AP.
Key Facts: $200K in funding from EastLabs (Angel List), have customers and traction
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: New presentation tool in the cloud
About: Presentain is a Web and mobile solution to help presenters, sales, trainers and event organizers engage audiences during and after presentations based events. Pain: poor audience engagement, lack of traction after event, lack of audience analysis. Solution: web service for presenters to store presentations to access them via browser anywhere, smart phone (iOS, Android) based app to mimic remote control, sync technology for audience to see slides on their devices, slides with audio auto-recording.
Key Facts: $200K in funding from EastLabs (Angel List), have customers and traction
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Online sharing space for sports gear
About: Whether you have a snowboard, a bike or other sports gear, and you do not use it 24/7, do you? Share it with your friends or neighbors in just 3 clicks. Do it for free or make a handsome profit!
Key Facts: MVP
Location: Kiev, Ukraine
Type: Software-on-Demand Service
About: rollApp is a Software-on-Demand service that instantly delivers virtually any existing desktop software to any Web-browser equipped computing or mobile device over broadband/3G. The service is currently in a private beta mode
Key Facts: $350K in funding from the London TMT Investments
Location: Palo Alto, USA
