Lviv IT Arena is a conference specially designed for programmers, designers, developers, top managers, inverstors, entrepreneurs and startuppers. Annually it takes place at the beginning of October in Lviv at Arena Lviv stadium. In 2016 the conference gathered more than 1800 participants and over 100 speakers from companies like Microsoft, Philips, Twitter, UBER and IBM. More details about the conference at itarena.lviv.ua.

2. the outsourced ceo:
американець in kyiv

5. raising VC in the valley

6. “where in russia is kyiv?”

7. “kyiv is too far away for us to
invest” - a british vc
“let’s get on a plane” - bill
woodward, anthem venture
partners, los angeles

8. series b
series a

10. 3+ years

12. “companies aren’t sold they’re
bought” -some banker

13. lessons learned
1. Structure
2. Tech
3. Scale & Stability
4. BizDev

14. raise abroad
bizDev abroad
build at home

15. silicon valley ain’t always a
dream