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Ukraine’s Online Ad Market Hits ₴50B, Fueled by Search and Social Media

The All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition has released its 2025 advertising results. According to their calculations, a total of 50 billion hryvnia was spent on online advertising over the year, up from...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Is Being Used to Create Anti-Ukrainian Deepfakes About the War

In early November, videos began circulating on social media that allegedly show Ukrainian soldiers crying and surrendering to Russian forces on the front lines. An investigation by NBC News found...

Frontline Robotics and Quantum Systems Launch Drone Production in Germany

Quantum Systems and Frontline Robotics have announced Europe’s first fully automated, industrial-scale production line for drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Production will operate under the umbrella of Quantum Frontline...

Ukrainian Tech in the Fourth Year of War — Results of IT Research Ukraine 2025

The Lviv IT Cluster team has presented the results of IT Research Ukraine 2025, a comprehensive examination of Ukraine’s tech industry during wartime. The study covers over 300,000 specialists, 2,000...

Relevant Software Introduces New Website: How It Drives Business Value

At the end of 2025, Relevant Software launched its redesigned website. The team had been working on the update for more than six months, starting at the beginning of the...

Revolut to Buy Back Shares From Former Employees

British fintech unicorn Revolut, co-founded by Ukrainian Vlad Yatsenko and which closed a $75 billion funding round in November, has offered to buy back shares from former employees at a...

Playtika Cuts Ukrainian Staff Amid AI Shift

In November, news broke that Playtika planned to cut roughly 20% of its workforce — about 700–800 employees worldwide. Staff in the company’s Ukrainian office were unsure whether they’d be...

78 Startups Receive Over €1.8M from Seeds of Bravery

Seeds of Bravery has announced its latest cohort of funded startups. In total, 78 companies received more than €1.8 million across several program categories. The grants are financed by the...

Data, AI, and Efficiency: How Reenbit Builds Data Solutions for Global Clients

Today, data is the fuel for AI. Companies spend vast amounts of money to organize, label, prepare it for AI training, or even simply access it when it belongs to...

InSoft.Partners Fund Exits Indeema and Forbytes

In November 2025, Ukrainian fund InSoft.Partners completed two exits, selling its stakes in Indeema and Forbytes, according to ain.ua. The fund’s website also confirms the deals. The financial terms of...

Ukrainian Defense Startups Raise $105+ Million in 2025

According to Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukrainian defense tech startups raised over $105 million in grants and investments in 2025. In 2024, the total was around $60...

Ukrainian-Founded Defense-Tech Startup Sky Spy Raises $1.6M

Sky Spy, a company developing compact radio-technical intelligence systems, has announced the closing of its pre-seed investment round, as reported by Defender Media. The company raised $1.6 million in this...

Crosscheck Secures $220K After Completing Techstars New York Accelerator

Crosscheck, a Ukrainian startup that builds an AI platform for business compliance, has completed the Techstars accelerator in New York and raised $220,000 in funding. Founder Bohdan Dreihaupt confirmed the...

Artem Yurkovskyi of Solcoa Industries Named to Forbes US 30 Under 30

Ukrainian innovator Artem Yurkovskyi has been included in the American edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Each year, the US editorial team selects 30 leaders in 20 different...

Fozzy Group Acquires The Village

According to Scroll.media’s sources, Fozzy Group has acquired the Kyiv-based publication The Village. The information has been confirmed by several market participants, as well as a team closely associated with...

Why “Low-Quality AI Content” Is a Myth: The My Passion Case

Books created in collaboration with AI on My Passion are read by millions of users every month. In a column for Scroll.media, Vladyslav Shevchenko, Exclusive Content Lead at My Passion,...

How Relevant Software Uses AI to Give Clients a Strategic Edge

When a new client comes to Relevant Software, the questions are almost always the same: what the project will require, where the risks are, and whether the idea is worth...

Ukrainian-Founded Crypto Exchange WhiteBIT Officially Enters the US Market

Cryptocurrency exchange WhiteBIT, founded by Ukrainian entrepreneur Volodymyr Nosov, has officially launched in the United States. The company confirmed the news to Scroll.media. According to WhiteBIT, the company has established...

Ukrainian Startups Among Winners of the EIT Innovation Awards 2025

The winners of the EIT Jumpstarter program were announced at the EIT Innovation Awards 2025 ceremony in Budapest — and three Ukrainian startups made the list, according to an EIT...

Ukrainian Patreon Accounts Blocked for Supporting the Defense Forces of Ukraine

Director and podcaster Nariman Aliev reported that Patreon deleted the account of his project MINCULTPRYVIT. This marks the second of his accounts affected earlier — the Bromance podcast page was...