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“Before the war, Ukraine was our third largest market.” Interview with Sacha Michaud, Glovo

In the mid May 2023 the co-founder of Glovo delivery company Sacha Michaud visited Kyiv and spent three days in Ukrainian capital. The first purpose was to visit the Ukrainian team. A hub in Ukraine is responsible for the entire

80 startups, $35M in investments: how ICLUB works

ICLUB is a subsidiary project of TA Ventures, launched in 2018. The idea behind this project was to get more people involved in investing by freeing them from the routine work of finding and analyzing startups. The TA Ventures team took

Interview with Ukraine’s Anton Borzov: working at WhatsApp, being an angel investor, and launching a $100M investment company

The Ukrainian Anton Borzov was one of the first employees at WhatsApp. He and his colleagues from Dnipro in Ukraine were responsible for the product’s design from its earliest days, even before the messenger app gained popularity. Anton moved to

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