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Ukrainian startup Animal ID raises $500k at a $5M valuation

The Ukrainian platform for pet owners Animal ID raised $500,000 at a valuation of $5 million. The team does not disclose information about investors, but notes that these are “several business angels.” The editor of AIN.UA talked to the founders

Salary delays, layoffs, and disclosed investors

Nimses employees and partners spoke about what is happening inside Ukraine’s much-hyped startup. At the end of September 2019, it became known that Nimses, one of the most sensational and mysterious Ukrainian startups, is having financial troubles. Since January 2019,

MES launches the scientific search engine Open Ukrainian Citation Index

The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MES) has launched the Open Ukrainian Citation Index (OUCI) scientific service. According to the information on the website, this is a search engine and a citation database. According to the Ministry of

Ukraine ranks 49th in the English proficiency ranking. Language skills are low

The educational company Education First published an annual ranking of English proficiency in different countries. EF English Proficiency Index covers only those countries and territories where English is not a native language. The assessment is based on the results of

Beyond Meat starts selling vegan meat in Ukraine

The American startup Beyond Meat enters the Ukrainian market: customers will be offered products in the form of burger cutlets and vegetable meat sausages. The distributor of the products is West Mills, a company of Stanislav Lutskovych and Oleksandr Korzun,

Samsung will sell Galaxy Fold in Ukraine

Samsung announced the upcoming start of sales of the new Galaxy Fold in Ukraine, as reported by ITC. Galaxy Fold is a smartphone with a foldable display from Samsung. Its display size is 4.6 inches when folded and 7.3 inches

Consolidation in the small IT outsourcing market: Khmelnytskyi and Gorovoy company buys shares in two outsourcers and merges with the third

InSoft Software, a joint venture of investment companies UFuture of Vasyl Khmelnytskui and InSoft Partners of Vitaly Gorovoy, has closed two deals and merged three assets under the new brand. AIN.UA tells the details. Deal details InSoft Software increased its

Ukraine ranks 2nd worldwide by the growth of orders on AliExpress. Average order value – $2

The number of orders by Ukrainians on AliExpress increased by 70% for 10 months in 2019. Thus, Ukraine ranks second in terms of growth rates on the marketplace. Such data was published by the national postal operator Ukrposhta, which delivers

IKEA will not launch production in Lviv region – Ukrainian companies do not meet the standards

IKEA could not agree on the launch of production facilities in the Lviv region, as reported by Retailers. Back in 2017, the Swedish company was looking for partners in the region to manufacture furniture at local production facilities. But the

lifecell launches eSIM. Starter package costs 150UAH, more than 10 tariffs available

Mobile operator lifecell announced the launch of eSIM, as reported by ITC. The term eSIM simply means an embedded SIM card that replaces a physical one. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch include eSIM support. TriMob was the first company in