Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) shapes the future direction of the venture capital and private equity industry in Ukraine by promoting its investment opportunities, advocating the interests of private equity investors to policymakers, and improving the local investment and business climate.
• Established by the example of Invest Europe, UVCA currently unites almost 50 members – leaders of the international and Ukrainian investment markets: Almaz Capital, AVentures Capital, Deloitte, Digital Future, Horizon Capital, HP Tech Ventures, Intel Capital, EBRD etc. Our members invest not only capital, but also expertise and innovation, providing strong and sustainable growth to portfolio companies - from startups to established businesses.
• By building bridges between Ukrainian and global ecosystems, UVCA facilitates the motion of knowledge and capital in both directions.
• UVCA makes a constructive contribution to shaping legislation on both pan-industry and sector-specific scales that affect LPs, GPs, and their portfolio companies
• UVCA is a nonprofit organization with the head office in Kyiv, Ukraine, and members from all across Europe, USA, Ukraine etc.
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
(UVCA) was established to spread the word about
Ukraine’s achievements and opportunities and to support
investors in every aspect, from providing reliable
information to establishing international connections at the
industry and government levels.
The Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and the audit and consulting company Kreston Ukraine present the “Ukraine venture capital and private equity markets 2020” annual review, which also includes data for 8 months of 2021.
According to the results of 2020, Ukrainian technology companies and their investors closed 188 deals with investors worth USD 533.5 million. About 50% of the deals are small grants (25 and 50 thousand USD) from the Ukrainian Startup Fund. For 2020—2021, it has invested USD 5.3 million in Ukrainian projects.
Just three years ago, Ukraine did not have a single unicorn among its startups. Nowadays, as many as five of them — Gitlab, Grammarly, Bitfury, People.ai, and Ring — raised USD 1.3 bln funding and dominate the global market.
In this review, we analysed the key market trends, such as “investment focus on software projects”, “increase of foreign investors in the Ukrainian market”, “growing quality of Ukrainian startups and their interest in smart money” for the first time. The key drivers and barriers to market development were identified — the respondents noted that despite the imperfect regulatory framework, the country still has enough private capital to promote the sector.
Generally, all market players are unanimous in their outlooks and are quite optimistic about further market development. According to 81% venture and 67% private equity investors surveyed, all quantitative indicators are likely to grow, and high-tech industries traditionally represent the most promising ones.
Ukrainian investors primarily point to the experience and qualification of the team (according to 94% venture and 17% private equity investors surveyed) and the market potential of the business idea (according to 82% venture and 83% private equity investors surveyed), among the key factors for investment decisions. On the other hand, when choosing an investor, startups consider their industry expertise, investment terms, and ‘smart money’ they can get.
The study results show that Ukrainian companies offer attractive, relevant, and globally competitive solutions and demonstrate sustainability and adaptability in COVID-19. Ukraine is gradually transforming from a talent and idea exporter into a big international venture capital market player.
Tech Ecosystem of Ukraine 2019. Insights, facts, companies you wanted to knowKirill Mazur
Ukraine's tech ecosystem is booming.
Last 5 years have become history-changing for Ukraine. With its 185 000 tech specialists, a few thousand startups, first unicorns, first innovation district and 20% average annual tech workforce growth, Ukraine is facing a prominent creative revolution in many areas.
In 2019, UNIT.City team together with partners has launched the guide about key things you should know about innovations in Ukraine.
Ukraine will once again showcase its IoT and innovation achievements to the world.
For the second time in a row Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) together with Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) are organizing the UA TECH Expo Zone at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - one of the largest consumer electronics conferences, which will be held on January 9-12 in Las Vegas.
RMG Russian Venture Capital Market Overview 2Q2013Boris Orlovetsky
Rye, Man & Gor Securities is pleased to present the first issue of the Russian Venture Capital Market Overview, which includes a rundown of Russia’s venture capital market and an industry focus dedicated to the cloud technology market.
Investors Book 2021 - catalog for investors and startups that will allow them to connect in a reliable, efficient way to make ‘perfect match’.
The Investors Book 2021 was created by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) supported by the USAID through its Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine (USAID CEP) and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association
(UVCA) was established to spread the word about
Ukraine’s achievements and opportunities and to support
investors in every aspect, from providing reliable
information to establishing international connections at the
industry and government levels.
The Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and the audit and consulting company Kreston Ukraine present the “Ukraine venture capital and private equity markets 2020” annual review, which also includes data for 8 months of 2021.
According to the results of 2020, Ukrainian technology companies and their investors closed 188 deals with investors worth USD 533.5 million. About 50% of the deals are small grants (25 and 50 thousand USD) from the Ukrainian Startup Fund. For 2020—2021, it has invested USD 5.3 million in Ukrainian projects.
Just three years ago, Ukraine did not have a single unicorn among its startups. Nowadays, as many as five of them — Gitlab, Grammarly, Bitfury, People.ai, and Ring — raised USD 1.3 bln funding and dominate the global market.
In this review, we analysed the key market trends, such as “investment focus on software projects”, “increase of foreign investors in the Ukrainian market”, “growing quality of Ukrainian startups and their interest in smart money” for the first time. The key drivers and barriers to market development were identified — the respondents noted that despite the imperfect regulatory framework, the country still has enough private capital to promote the sector.
Generally, all market players are unanimous in their outlooks and are quite optimistic about further market development. According to 81% venture and 67% private equity investors surveyed, all quantitative indicators are likely to grow, and high-tech industries traditionally represent the most promising ones.
Ukrainian investors primarily point to the experience and qualification of the team (according to 94% venture and 17% private equity investors surveyed) and the market potential of the business idea (according to 82% venture and 83% private equity investors surveyed), among the key factors for investment decisions. On the other hand, when choosing an investor, startups consider their industry expertise, investment terms, and ‘smart money’ they can get.
The study results show that Ukrainian companies offer attractive, relevant, and globally competitive solutions and demonstrate sustainability and adaptability in COVID-19. Ukraine is gradually transforming from a talent and idea exporter into a big international venture capital market player.
Tech Ecosystem of Ukraine 2019. Insights, facts, companies you wanted to knowKirill Mazur
Ukraine's tech ecosystem is booming.
Last 5 years have become history-changing for Ukraine. With its 185 000 tech specialists, a few thousand startups, first unicorns, first innovation district and 20% average annual tech workforce growth, Ukraine is facing a prominent creative revolution in many areas.
In 2019, UNIT.City team together with partners has launched the guide about key things you should know about innovations in Ukraine.
Ukraine will once again showcase its IoT and innovation achievements to the world.
For the second time in a row Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) together with Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF) are organizing the UA TECH Expo Zone at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) - one of the largest consumer electronics conferences, which will be held on January 9-12 in Las Vegas.
RMG Russian Venture Capital Market Overview 2Q2013Boris Orlovetsky
Rye, Man & Gor Securities is pleased to present the first issue of the Russian Venture Capital Market Overview, which includes a rundown of Russia’s venture capital market and an industry focus dedicated to the cloud technology market.
Investors Book 2021 - catalog for investors and startups that will allow them to connect in a reliable, efficient way to make ‘perfect match’.
The Investors Book 2021 was created by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) supported by the USAID through its Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine (USAID CEP) and the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in partnership with Deloitte, presented its annual Overview of Ukrainian investment market. Following a dip in 2016, the data for 2017 indicates that the total amount of venture capital investment in Ukrainian IT companies has reached its peak totaling $259 million, tripling compared to the previous year. Although in line with the global trend of shifting investors’ focus from quantity to quality, the number of deals remains at about the same level with 89 deals.
For the first time, the Overview also covers two additional segments on the top of private capital trends: private equity deals and ICO.
2017 was an exceptional year for private equity investments due to a relative rise in activity, compared to the last 3 years, when the average number of deals did not exceed 4. The value of PE deals in Ukraine totals $ 126.7m, and numbers at 14, however, the deals were undisclosed.
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) financing is the new trend in attracting investments by Ukrainian startups. 19 startups succeeded in attracting $160m within ICO in 2017. Moreover, VC funds focused solely on crypto-related businesses emerged, establishing stronger ties between private capital and blockchain. Neuromation ($71M), Dmarket ($19,1M) and Propy marketplace ($15,4M) were the top 3 ICOs from Ukraine in 2017.
There were 87 investment deals with Ukrainian innovative companies in 2016 , which is 32% more than in 2015 - such a data was presented by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in its annual market overview. The overview has gathered information on venture, private equity and angel investment deals - their total volume is accounted in 88 mln. USD in 2016. The amount of investments over the past 5 years growth to 400 mln. At the same time, the volume of investment deals decreased on 33% since 2015 (including 13 undisclosed deals), but still is higher than in 2014 at 125%. The reason is few deals in 2015 amounted in dozens of millions.
Distinguishing feature of the market in 2016 is the prevalence of seed-stage deals. Thereby among all deals 73 were made at the seed-stage with the average amount of ticket over 500K USD. So we can expect that these initially invested companies will attract bigger investments in future.
The average ticket amount (on all stages) has grown up to 1M USD in 2016.
Overview of Top Ukraine’s ICOs is the first-ever analytical research of the most successful Ukrainian projects, which made a public offer of tokens, created by joined forces of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association UVCA and the Ukrainian company Hacken with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The research shows the potential of the crypto industry of Ukraine. Ukrainian startups attracted $ 171 million in investments by cryptocurrency fundraising.
Overview of Top Ukraine’s ICOs reveals the crypto market capitalization, the features of Ukrainian companies and their tokens, the number of funds raised, and the social media community.
UVCA (Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) was established in 2014 and unites more then 35 members. The association promotes investment opportunities in Ukraine for foreign investment funds, conducts market research, lobbies laws for improving investment and business climate, implements Invest in Ukraine activity
Ukraine Dealbook IT and Internet Market 2012-14Yevgen Sysoyev
The comprehensive overview of venture market in Ukraine and all tech deals in 2012-14, overview of key trends, players and Ukrainian venture ecosystem
Subscribe to @YevgenSysoyev to receive updates
Downloadable version is here:
http://www.ewdn.com/files/ua_dealbook.pdf
Key findings:
https://prezi.com/y_gg35xswhcr/the-deal-book-of-ukraine/
For optimized reading: http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
A comprehensive 250-page review of software R&D and IT outsourcing activities in Ukraine, the country with the largest number of software engineers in CEE. http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
All you wanted to know about Ukrainian Tech.
UKRAINE: Europe’s biggest Tech country
Ukraine is a blooming tech talent pool. We power global tech engines. It’s BRAINing here.
Entrepreneurship hub: Start easy, develop fast, grow global with Ukraine. The land of tech freedom.
World’s R&D lab. Everything is TECHable with Ukraine.
Check the presentation to find out more.
On January 2017, the whole technological world was showing up the best innovations at the 50-th International Consumer Electronic Show (СES-2017), which every year takes place in Las Vegas and attracts more than 200 thousands visitors from all the globe. This year, for the first time in the history of CES Ukraine organized its national expo, where the brightest startups presented their products. UaTech Expo Zone was jointly organized by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF).
Invest Europe, formerly the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. Invest Europe is the guardian of the industry’s professional standards, demanding accountability, good governance and transparency from our members.
We invest in Ukraine!
Ukrainian IT SECTOR AS OF late 2014
VENTURE ECOSYSTEM AS OF late 2014
VENTURE MARKET: key highlights
$2B+ WORTH STARTUPS
Success stories FROM UKRAINE
10 NEW investors started investing in Ukrainian startups in 2014
Fintech overview for HEIG-VD lecture, December 2016Jérôme Vasamillet
Hello, I'd like to share a presentation I prepared for a lecture at the HEIG-VD engineering and management school in Switzerland, focusing on Fintech with a Global and Swiss overview. Being a long lecture in front of students in International Innovation Management, it looks at Fintech under various angles, and also presents the Startup Weekend Fintech Geneva which I co-organize, as a pre-Fintech startup experience. Hope you enjoy the pack! Jérôme.
Hedge Fund Review’s special report gives particular emphasis on EXANTE’s potential to support the next generation of financial companies by connecting different types of clients such as asset managers and high-net-worth individuals with its unique integrated electronic trading and fund platform providing access to all markets, all instruments and a variety of exchanges, as well as direct market access and high-speed infrastructure.
В отчете, который презентовали 29 мая в инновационном парке UNIT.City, были изучены наиболее значимые научные разработки, динамика инновационной активности, интересы международных компаний в Украине, а также украинских изобретателей за рубежом за 2007-2017 года. Проект был реализован совместными усилиями Innolytics Group, SingularityU Kyiv Chapter, UNIT.City, в партнерстве с DLA Piper и Ukrinnovate.
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in partnership with Deloitte, presented its annual Overview of Ukrainian investment market. Following a dip in 2016, the data for 2017 indicates that the total amount of venture capital investment in Ukrainian IT companies has reached its peak totaling $259 million, tripling compared to the previous year. Although in line with the global trend of shifting investors’ focus from quantity to quality, the number of deals remains at about the same level with 89 deals.
For the first time, the Overview also covers two additional segments on the top of private capital trends: private equity deals and ICO.
2017 was an exceptional year for private equity investments due to a relative rise in activity, compared to the last 3 years, when the average number of deals did not exceed 4. The value of PE deals in Ukraine totals $ 126.7m, and numbers at 14, however, the deals were undisclosed.
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) financing is the new trend in attracting investments by Ukrainian startups. 19 startups succeeded in attracting $160m within ICO in 2017. Moreover, VC funds focused solely on crypto-related businesses emerged, establishing stronger ties between private capital and blockchain. Neuromation ($71M), Dmarket ($19,1M) and Propy marketplace ($15,4M) were the top 3 ICOs from Ukraine in 2017.
There were 87 investment deals with Ukrainian innovative companies in 2016 , which is 32% more than in 2015 - such a data was presented by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) in its annual market overview. The overview has gathered information on venture, private equity and angel investment deals - their total volume is accounted in 88 mln. USD in 2016. The amount of investments over the past 5 years growth to 400 mln. At the same time, the volume of investment deals decreased on 33% since 2015 (including 13 undisclosed deals), but still is higher than in 2014 at 125%. The reason is few deals in 2015 amounted in dozens of millions.
Distinguishing feature of the market in 2016 is the prevalence of seed-stage deals. Thereby among all deals 73 were made at the seed-stage with the average amount of ticket over 500K USD. So we can expect that these initially invested companies will attract bigger investments in future.
The average ticket amount (on all stages) has grown up to 1M USD in 2016.
Overview of Top Ukraine’s ICOs is the first-ever analytical research of the most successful Ukrainian projects, which made a public offer of tokens, created by joined forces of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association UVCA and the Ukrainian company Hacken with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
The research shows the potential of the crypto industry of Ukraine. Ukrainian startups attracted $ 171 million in investments by cryptocurrency fundraising.
Overview of Top Ukraine’s ICOs reveals the crypto market capitalization, the features of Ukrainian companies and their tokens, the number of funds raised, and the social media community.
UVCA (Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association) was established in 2014 and unites more then 35 members. The association promotes investment opportunities in Ukraine for foreign investment funds, conducts market research, lobbies laws for improving investment and business climate, implements Invest in Ukraine activity
Ukraine Dealbook IT and Internet Market 2012-14Yevgen Sysoyev
The comprehensive overview of venture market in Ukraine and all tech deals in 2012-14, overview of key trends, players and Ukrainian venture ecosystem
Subscribe to @YevgenSysoyev to receive updates
Downloadable version is here:
http://www.ewdn.com/files/ua_dealbook.pdf
Key findings:
https://prezi.com/y_gg35xswhcr/the-deal-book-of-ukraine/
For optimized reading: http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
A comprehensive 250-page review of software R&D and IT outsourcing activities in Ukraine, the country with the largest number of software engineers in CEE. http://www.uadn.net/files/ua_hightech.pdf
All you wanted to know about Ukrainian Tech.
UKRAINE: Europe’s biggest Tech country
Ukraine is a blooming tech talent pool. We power global tech engines. It’s BRAINing here.
Entrepreneurship hub: Start easy, develop fast, grow global with Ukraine. The land of tech freedom.
World’s R&D lab. Everything is TECHable with Ukraine.
Check the presentation to find out more.
On January 2017, the whole technological world was showing up the best innovations at the 50-th International Consumer Electronic Show (СES-2017), which every year takes place in Las Vegas and attracts more than 200 thousands visitors from all the globe. This year, for the first time in the history of CES Ukraine organized its national expo, where the brightest startups presented their products. UaTech Expo Zone was jointly organized by the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF).
Invest Europe, formerly the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA), is the association representing Europe’s private equity, venture capital and infrastructure sectors, as well as their investors. Invest Europe is the guardian of the industry’s professional standards, demanding accountability, good governance and transparency from our members.
We invest in Ukraine!
Ukrainian IT SECTOR AS OF late 2014
VENTURE ECOSYSTEM AS OF late 2014
VENTURE MARKET: key highlights
$2B+ WORTH STARTUPS
Success stories FROM UKRAINE
10 NEW investors started investing in Ukrainian startups in 2014
Fintech overview for HEIG-VD lecture, December 2016Jérôme Vasamillet
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Hedge Fund Review’s special report gives particular emphasis on EXANTE’s potential to support the next generation of financial companies by connecting different types of clients such as asset managers and high-net-worth individuals with its unique integrated electronic trading and fund platform providing access to all markets, all instruments and a variety of exchanges, as well as direct market access and high-speed infrastructure.
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2019 World VR Industry Conference
Time: October 14th – October 21st ,2019
Venue: Shanghai, Hebei, Nanchang
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What is Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA)
1. WE INVEST IN UKRAINE!
UVCA shapes the future direction of the private equity industry by
promoting investment opportunities of Ukraine, representing interests
of private equity investors to policymakers and improving investment
and business climate of Ukraine
8. $265M
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$490K
$4.8M
Investment volume (231% increase vs. 2016)
Investment deals (Seed, Follow-on, Series A, Series B, Growth & Secondary)
Exits to strategic buyers and investment funds
Average Seed deal size (16% up from 2016)
Record high average Round A size (x3 growth vs. 2016)
INVESTMENT HIGHLIGHTS OF 2017*
* according to The Dealbook of Ukraine, AVentures Capital
9. THE MAIN UVCA PROJECTS OF 2017
UVCA Challenge: CES Edition 2017
Ukrainian Davos Nights 2017 UVCA Investors Day in Odesa
Ukraine Discovery Tour
For the first time in the history of CES Ukraine has
organized its national expo, where the brightest 8
startups presented their products. UaTech Expo Zone
was jointly organized by the Ukrainian Venture Capital
and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and Western
NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF)
UVCA and its partners have organized Ukrainian
Davos Nights. Events held there on January 16 and
January 19 of 2017 gathered more than 400
participants of the World Economic Forum: investors,
entrepreneurs, media representatives learning more
about Ukraine’s achievements and partnership
opportunities in the IT and investment industry. The main
goal of these jointly organized Ukrainian business
events was to position Ukraine not only as the new
technological leader, but also as the country where the
new international R&D centers are being opened and
people are making successful investments
On July 15, the UVCA Investors Day was held in
Odesa for the first time. It was an exclusive event for the
global leaders of investment markets and members of
UVCA.
The program of UVCA Investors Day consisted of
several discussion sections, a startup expo-zone and
networking in an informal atmosphere
Ukraine Discovery Tour took place in May, being held
for the third time. Its organizers - Global Shapers Kyiv
Hub and UVCA created an amazing program for
participants from all around the world to show the
hidden side of our country, which is most often left
unseen by the visiting delegations
10. Crowdfunding by Ukrainian projects
2017
UVCA Investors Book 2017: Who is
Who on The Ukrainian Investment
Market
Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private
Equity Overview 2016
5600+ views 32000+ views 300+ views
UVCA MARKET REPORTS 2017
11. LOBBYING
Fund-of-Funds
UVCA consistently promotes the Fund-of-Funds (FoF) project, that will invest in existing
and new venture funds in Ukraine on a competitive basis, which could finally invest in
more than 3000 already existing Ukrainian startups.
Implementation of this project will become a catalyst for Ukrainian innovation industry,
and increase capital inflows of investments into the country.
The Prime Minister supported our proposal to create the Fund-of-Funds. The Head of
Government offered to draft a concept of the FoF and combine its activity with the
Council of Innovations. Volodymyr Groysman has added that following the discussion
and approval of such a concept, the Government will have a chance to take part in the
formation of the Fund’s budget.
Next steps:
- organizing a delegation from European Investment Fund to Ukraine to hold meetings
and a workshop for officials, local investors on fundraising and FoF establishment;
- signing a letter of intent by Ukrainian government regarding FoF creation.
12. Corporate Governance in LLC
Ukrainian Parliament passed the law on
LLC’s Corporate Governance in February
2018.
The Law implements international
practices in corporate regulation of
private companies, sets rules for a pledge
for corporation rights, introduces
shareholders agreements, protects
minority shareholders’ rights as well as
allows flexibility of regulation for private
company shareholders.
The Law will also increase Ukraine’s
Doing Business ranking.
State investment projects financing
The Law simplifies the procedure of
obtaining state support for investment
projects by changing the role of the State
Register of Investment Projects from
permissive to informative. It allows
projects that have been granted state
support, as well as state investment
projects, to be put in the State Register of
Investment Projects in order to monitor
their implementation.
Simplification of employment of high
quality foreign specialists
The Law allows highly skilled foreigners,
including those in the IT sector, to obtain
the work permit easier.
LOBBYING
13. UA Tech Expo at CES 2018
and the Silicon Valley Tour
OUR FIRST PROJECTS OF 2018
For the second time in a row UVCA together with Western NIS Enterprise Fund
(WNISEF) have been organizing the UA TECH Pavilion at Consumer Electronics
Show (CES) - one of the largest consumer electronics conferences, which will be
held on January 9-12,2018, in Las Vegas. It included the top-10 IoT startups:
•Senstone – Sensitive voice tracker that the lets creative people capture their
thoughts and life experiences on the go in a finger snap
•Kray Technologies – World first drone, that can be applied for crop protection
at industrial scale for most crop production farms
•Kwambio – 3D printing platform
•MMone Company - World's first 360' spinning Virtual Reality attraction
•PassivDom – Autonomous Off-the-grid 3D printed smart house
•Agrieye – AI to rise farmers efficiency with hardware data collection
•LaMetric – Connected clocks for smart home and office
•Discoperi – Saves lives by identifying risky drivers and allowing the rest of the
driver avoid potential accidents
•Sensorama Lab – VR kit for collective education and entertainment
•Whirl - an innovative device that facilitates nasal breathing and filters an air
14. Ukraine House during World Economic Forum in Davos,
January 2018
OUR FIRST PROJECTS OF 2018
The first-ever Ukraine House, organized by UVCA, during the World Economic
Forum in Davos, Switzerland took place alongside the WEF's Annual Meeting.
Ukraine House ran a week-long venue under the theme: "Ukraine:
Creativity, Innovation, Opportunity." A vibrant hub, it showcased Ukraine to
global leaders from business, politics and civil society, and presented
Ukrainian business and investment opportunities.
Designed in a contemporary style and located in the very heart of Davos, Ukraine
House payed homage to Ukraine’s rich culture and national identity, at the same
time, showcasing the country’s IT and technology sectors, sectors that embody the
emergence of a new, creative and innovative generation of business leaders and
new opportunities.
Ukraine House Davos snapshot:
• 15+ panel discussions on
investment and innovation topics;
• speakers from 10 countries;
• 1000+ registered visitors;
• 12+ hours of live stream;
• 80+ hours of UHD’s work.
Notable guests:
• President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko;
• President of EBRD Sir Suma Chakrabarti;
• Klitschko brothers;
• CEO of Tapscott Group Don Tapscott;
• Robot Sophia.