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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...

Quantum Systems Raises €180M, Valuation Hits €B

German defense technology startup Quantum Systems is raising a new round of funding, with its valuation set to triple, according to Bloomberg. The latest round raised €180 million, bringing the...

Ukrainian Liki24 Launches Global Platform Liki24.global

Ukrainian medicine marketplace Liki24 has gone global. The company announced the launch of Liki24.global, a platform that enables users in 50 countries to compare prices and order medicines in a...

How Fintech-IT Group Works — A Mono Developer with a $1B+ Valuation

monobank is, without exaggeration, a one-of-a-kind project. In just eight years, Ukraine’s first mobile-first bank has attracted 10 million customers, built an entire ecosystem of products and services, and recently...

Spotoria Startup Receives ₴1M Through the PERSH1 Program

The Ukrainian YEP Accelerator has wrapped up its PERSH1 incubation program and announced the winner: Spotoria. The startup was awarded UAH 1 million in grant funding to support its development....

Preply and Carmoola Join Endeavor Ukraine

Endeavor Ukraine has added two new companies to its network: Ukrainian edtech platform Preply and British-Ukrainian fintech Carmoola. Previously, the local Endeavor portfolio included Jooble, Headway, Fintech Farm, Ajax Systems,...

Ukrainian-Founded Coliving Platform Outpost Merges With Competitor

Outpost, a New York–based platform for finding coliving spaces, has announced a merger with June Homes to form the largest coliving operator in the United States. The company revealed the...

Day4Defenders: Ukrainian IT Companies Raise Nearly ₴10M for the Armed Forces in a Single Workday

Donating to the Armed Forces has become a daily norm — a foundation we all rely on. On October 1st, for the fourth year in a row, the Ukrainian IT...

The Valley Is Turning Toward Defense: How the Network VC Group Operates and Invests

The American-Ukrainian Network VC has been a regular investor in Silicon Valley, and, more recently, in Ukrainian defense technology. The group of funds and syndicates was founded by Oleksandr Soroka,...

Revolut Is Worth $75B — Now It’s Official

On November 24, Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky officially confirmed that the British fintech company is now valued at $75 billion. Bloomberg had previously reported the figure, but the company had...

Ukraine’s Luminar Mobile Wins Google Play Best of 2025 Award

Luminar Mobile, an AI-powered image-editing app, has been named “Best Multi-Device App” at the Google Play Best of 2025 Awards. Skylum, the company behind the app, confirmed the news to...

Ukrainian IT Company inVerita Opens Office in Latin America

inVerita, an international provider of technology solutions and software development services, is opening a new office in Medellín, Colombia. This marks the company’s first presence in Latin America; until now,...