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Median Ukrainian IT salary fell to $3,300 in H2 2023 — DOU

The median salary of Ukrainian developers fell by $135 to $3,300 in the second half of 2023. This is the first drop in salaries since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The data is reported in the DOU

Ward 24/7 receives €3.4M from Finnish Innovestor among others

Innovestor, a Finnish investment company, has joined €3.4 million for Copenhagen-based medtech Ward 24/7. Sagitta Ventures, a number of Danish business angels, and the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) also participated. We are very impressed with the ward 24/7 team’s progress.

Early-stage rounds increased to 196 in the New Nordics — byFounders 2023 report

Copenhagen-based community-powered early-stage VC byFounders has prepared a report on pre-seed to Series A technology startups and VCs in 2023 across the Nordics (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland) and Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). AIN.Capital shares the keynotes on Finland and

Finnish Paptic closes €27.5M round to accelerate its global growth

Paptic, a Finland-based manufacturer of wood fibre-based packaging materials, has closed a total of €27.5 million in funding led by the UB FIGG, joined by Emerald Technology Ventures, SIG InnoVentures, and EIC Fund. Details of the investment: Now, that the

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is coming September 5, 2024

Ukrainian gamedev studio GSC Game World has officially announced the final release date of the long-awaited game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The release is scheduled for September 5, 2024. You can pre-order the game by following the link. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Finland’s DelSiTech closes a €10M round for its drug delivery platform

Finnish pharma company DelSiTech has announced the closing of a €10 million round, co-led by DRW Venture Capital LLC and Tolmar International Ltd. The investment will be used to develop its platform and further build DelSiTech. We welcome DRW and

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs opens applications for Ukrainians in Estonia

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs, an EU-backed cross-border knowledge exchange program, has opened a new batch of applications for Ukrainian and European entrepreneurs who are resided in Estonia. The cycle 14 project is named “EYE TO THE FUTURE UKRAINE”, Estonia’s Startup

Ukrainian Wikipedia ranks 14th in the world by the number of articles

In 2023, 84,431 new articles appeared in the Ukrainian Wikipedia compared to 88,809 in 2022 (-4.9%), according to Wikimedia Ukraine. On average, 231 articles were created every day, and the total number of articles at the end of the year

Petcube’s co-founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk is building a robotics company

Petcube‘s co-founder and board chairman Yaroslav Azhnyuk is building a new company called The Fourth Law which delves into the development of autonomy modules for robotic systems, Aznyuk shared on his Linkedin page. Complete autonomy means that the system does

N-ink secures €1M investment at Voima Ventures science challenge, Velocity

Finland’s Voima Ventures has awarded €1 million investment to Swedish deeptech company N-ink via its science challenge. The challenge targeted Nordic and Baltic early-stage startups and research teams. We are thrilled to back N-ink in their journey to the next stage.