Olha Karpenko

Ukrainian startup DreamTeam raised $5 million from Mangrove Capital Partners in a seed-round

David Varokvir, a partner of the fund, who, as a result of the previous deal, became a member of the Company’s supervisory board, states that the round is aimed to support “explosive growth” of the project. “It took DreamTeam just

How will taxes change for self-employed individuals of the 2nd and 3rd groups in 2019: the calculation

The good news for the self-employed individuals: the system in which they work for the year of 2019 will not change significantly (despite the statements of the SFS and legislative initiatives that it’s time to cancel the “simplified system”). The

Andy Baynes, a former Apple employee talks about doing business in Ukraine: “People are driven by innovations here”

You’ve been at Apple, Nest, Google, in general what was your area of expertise at those companies? At Apple I was around 13 years in product design division in California. I worked on both the iOS and Mac product range,

Whether or not there is a need to pay taxes on bitcoin (or declare it) in Ukraine: legal advice

Natalia Radchenko, partner of the tax law practice “Juscutum”: Mining Mining is not prohibited on the territory of Ukraine. Basically it is the activity in the area of utilizing equipment in order to obtain assets. Here are some practical tips

How the Ukrainian and Dutchman created a competitor to GitHub with investments of $45 million: history of GitLab

“In Ukraine they do not design Mercedes” Dmytro Zaporozhets have been interested in software engineering since he was a student of Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University, majoring in computer-aided diagnosis of motor transport. Entering this higher institution, Dmytro expected

Dmitry Sergeev, Depositphotos: If there is a need to fly to Mars that will bring money, I’ll do it

In 2015 you attracted investments from EBRD tell us about this deal. What did you spend the investments on? How has your Company been developing since that moment? We met at IDCEE in 2012. Since we delivered our speech, a

Amazon has bought Ring for $1 billion. What does the startup deal with? How does their Ukrainian office work?

On 27 of February the American Internet-giant Amazon has bought a startup Ring, dealing with IoT-solutions for residential security. In 2016 the startup opened R&D office in Kyiv. The editorial team of AIN.UA has collected information, showing the company’s focus as well as

Physicist Anton Senenko: “Science is a big bowl of soup. But how can it stew if our scientific environment is dissolving?”

Tell us about the direction and methods of some of your research Scanning tunneling microscopy is a method that allows humans to see a separate molecule or atom in a direct space. Regular microscopes help us observe objects through a