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Newxel’s team took part in the Kyiv Unbroken Half Marathon by RunUkraine. How did it go?

“Ran to impact the world”, — this was the slogan of the Newxel team at the charity race “Day 431: Kyiv Unbroken Half Marathon” organized by RunUkraine. The charity mission of the race was to raise funds for the Hospitallers

Startup of the Day: Planet42, Estonian-founded car subscription service provider

Founded in 2017, Planet42 is a mobility startup that offers rent-to-buy car subscriptions. Its model is based on utilizing a proprietary scoring engine and a network of car dealership partners to assess each customer’s risk level. Since its launching, the

Austrian Prewave receives €18M for its supply chain risk platform

The Vienna-based startup Prewave has received €18 million Series A+ to level up its all-in-one supply chain risk management solution. The round was led by Creandum.

Czech startup Product Fruits raises €1.6M for its onboarding platform

The Prague-based Product Fruits, that provides the user-onboarding platform, has announced the raising of €1.6 million in a seed round co-led by VCs Leverage and Venture to Future Fund, AIN.Capital was told. The round will be used to accelerate the

Ukrainians launch YEP search engine investing $60M. How will it compete with Google?

On March 27, 2019, the founder of Ahrefs, Ukrainian Dmytro Gerasymenko, announced an ambitious new project — the YEP search engine, which he claimed would be able to compete with Google. How could a team of 100 people compete with

Poland’s Spire Capital Partners launches Fund I with €57M first close

Spire Capital Partners has announced the launch of its first fund – SCP Fund I, with €57 million committed for the first close, a key milestone towards the €100 million final target. The Fund will focus on software, ecommerce, and

Ukrainian Jooble invests in Adsee, a service for social media recruiting

Job search site Jooble has invested in Adsee, an online recruiting service that helps run recruiting campaigns on social networks. As Jooble informed AIN.Capital, this is a pre-seed investment, the amount is not disclosed. In addition to funding, Jooble will

How the facial recognition service Clearview AI helps to identify Russian war criminals in Ukraine

Clearview AI, an American facial recognition service, is actively used by Ukrainian border guards and the National Police during the full-scale war Russia started in Ukraine. In particular, it helps to look for and identify Russian war criminals, people involved

Founder of Zakaz.ua launches robotics startup Instock, raising $4.6M

Ukrainian serial entrepreneur Yehor Anchyshkin has launched a new startup called Instock. It already secured a seed round in the amount of $4.6 million. Anchyshkin told AIN.Capital details of the project. “Less than 20% of warehouses and less than 1%

Estonian-founded platform Funderbeam secures ＄40M round led by VentureWave

London-based funding and trading platform Funderbeam has secured a $40 million investment. The round was led by VentureWave, who also acquired the strategic majority stake in the Estonia-founed company. Co-investors in the round include Mistletoe, Draper Associates, and Kaidi Ruusalepp,