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Polish foodtech startup Gaminate raises €530k

The Polish-based startup Gaminate has raised about €530,000 (2.5 million PLN) for supplements production. The funds AgriTech Hub and ASP Capital are the lead investors in this round, MamStartup reports. Founded in 2020 by Marcin Leśniak, Robert Samaruk, and Piotr

Ukrainian AcademyOcean won Google’s grant. How the startup helps businesses to automate training for employees and customers

AcademyOcean, an Ukraine-based Software as a Service (SaaS) startup that provides a smart Learning Management System (LMS), announced that it has raised funding from Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund, as well as received ongoing Google mentorship and product support.

sTARTUp Day 2022 announces the winners of its Pitching

Estonian startup festival sTARTUp Day 2022 has announced the winners of its Pitching competition. This year, organizers received the record number of 380 applications from early-stage startups from 47 countries, and chose 40 teams to participate in the final pitching

Startup of the Day: Ukrainian-founded solartech WeDoSolar

WeDoSolar provides vertical solar power panels that are made to be easily fixed on balconies with weatherproof straps by non-tech-savvy users. The startup was launched in February 2022 by Ukrainian-born serial entrepreneur Karolina Attspodina and Qian Qin, a hardware engineer, and

Tech salaries in Poland – summer survey results

Ukrainian Tech community DOU has published the first results of its summer salary survey in Poland. It is based on the data provided by more than one thousand tech and non-tech specialists working in IT companies or departments in Poland.

Pinterest marked Crimea as part of Russia. Ukrainians dropped its rating to 1.0

Twitter users noticed that in the analytics section of the Pinterest account, Crimea is marked as part of Russian region. In response, Ukrainian users organized review bombing and dropped the rating of the Pinterest app in Ukrainian Google Play from

Finnish fund Voima Ventures invests in Cellfion, a cleantech from Sweden

The Helsinki-based fund Voima Ventures has made its first investment in Sweden. The fund backed the Swedish startup Cellfion in a €1.3 million seed round. Voima aims at helping founders accelerate the growth of deep technology to global markets, ArcticStartup

Despite the war, IT Arena 2022 will be held in Lviv on September 30-October 1

Despite unprecedented challenges around Ukraine, IT Arena 2022, one of Eastern Europe’s largest annual professional tech conferences, will be held in Lviv on September 30-October 1. This year, the event, themed “Ukraine 3.0: Brave. Resilient. Digital”, will be in-person (offline)

Finnish Savage Game Studios is acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment

The Helsinki-based Savage Game Studios is acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment. With the acquisition, the game studio becomes a new member of PlayStation Studios Mobile Division, ArcticStartup reports. The financial details of the deal are not disclosed. The veteran game developers Michail

Meet Ukraïnica, a new educational platform to study Ukraine

The Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University and Ukrainian Institute has launched the Ukraïnica platform. Its database helps to integrate Ukraine into English-language curricula and create courses about our country, The Village Ukraine reports. What to study on the Ukraïnica