MI: Ukrainian Pitch
76 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago -MI: Ukrainian Pitch – a podcast hosted by Dominique Piotet.
Tech News & Tech Dudes. From Ukraine to the World.
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Yura Lazebnikov / WePlay Studios
September 29, 2023 08:49 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBYura Lazebnikov is an investor and co-founder of WePlay Studios, a content-driven production company. He is also a co-founder of the NGO “Techiia Foundation,” which since 2018 has invested over UAH 20 million in social projects focused on the Ukrainian army, healthcare, and the development of STEM education. LinkedIn of Yura Lazebnikov: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yura-lazebnikov/ About WePlay Studios: WePlay Studios is a content-driven production company that blends gaming, technology, a...
Ivan Kaunov / Defense Tech Startup BUNTAR
September 22, 2023 13:14 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBIvan Kaunov – co-founder of fintech company Finmap.Online, nowadays serving in the Ukrainian Army. On this podcast, he presents defense tech startup BUNTAR. Pitch deck of BUNTAR: https://docsend.com/view/wutan9rimdtvcd6k Ivan Kaunov on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaunov-ivan/ On this podcast, Dominique Piotet, co-founder of the Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed with Ivan Kaunov opportunities for investments in growing military tech. The podcast was recorded in September 2023 an...
Arnaud Lumet / Luxembourg Ukraine Chamber of Commerce
September 14, 2023 11:30 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MBArnaud Lumet plays a pivotal role as a Founding Board Member of the Luxembourg Ukraine Chamber of Commerce and the Tech & Innovation Lead. Arnaud's journey into the tech ecosystem began with a strong belief that Europe holds vast opportunities for Ukrainian startups. Luxembourg, despite its small size, boasts a thriving tech ecosystem with over 500 startups, 15 incubation and acceleration programs, and initiatives like Fit4Start, which provides up to 150,000 EUR in equity-free support. Arn...
Michael Chobanyan / KUNA.io
September 07, 2023 11:26 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBMichael Chobanyan is the founder of the first Bitcoin agency in Eastern Europe and the CIS countries. Has more than 7 years of experience in managing Telecommunications / Internet Providers. Professionally studies Blockchain ecosystems since 2011. https://www.linkedin.com/in/chobanian/ • In March, 2014 Mr. Chobanyan founded KUNA Bitcoin Agency and non-government organization Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine (BFU). • September, 2014 - the first Bitcoin Embassy in the CIS countries was opened and ...
Zoya Lytvyn / Osvitoria NGO
August 31, 2023 15:31 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBZoya Lytvyn is Founder of Osvitoria NGO promoting the development and education reform in Ukraine. Zoya introduced to Ukraine Global Teacher Prize Award to enhance the prestige of the teaching profession. On this podcast, Dominique Piotet, co-founder of the Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed with Zoya Lytvyn resistance of the educational front in Ukraine. More about Osvitoria: https://osvitoria.org/en/ More about Ukrainian Phoenix Fund: https://ukrphoenix.com/ The podcast was recorded in A...
Dmytro Bilash / AI Osavul / War Time Episode
July 19, 2023 14:18 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode Dominique Piotet, co-founder at Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed information security in the war time in Ukraine with Dmytro Bilash, co-founder & CBDO Osavul, AI company which raised $1 million in 2023. Osavul is a Ukrainian AI company focusing on information security, countering disinformation, and information environment assessment. Name Osavul corresponds to the military position in old Ukrainian cossack army. Osavul maintained order in the army. Osavul was founded in ...
Ilia Kenigshtein / Creative States / War Time Episode
July 12, 2023 13:48 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBIlia Kenigshtein, Founder of Creative States, shared with Dominique Piotet history of the foundation of the workspaces extremely popular among entrepreneurs of Ukraine's capital, and golden rules for creating a vibrant ecosystem, especially in a war time. https://creativestates.net/en Creative States - the fastest-growing network of premium flexible workspaces with a full range of operational services partnering with A-Class building owners and professional commercial landlords. *** The...
Svitlana Malovana / Teampulse / War Time Episode
July 06, 2023 06:08 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBSvitlana Malovana, CEO and co-founder at Teampulse, relocated to New York City to promote the healthcare startup created from bomb shelters in Ukraine. Teampulse increases employee engagement and productivity in a hybrid work environment via gamification and wellness challenges. Launched in January 2023, the startup achieved significant milestones: 10 companies and over 1,500 active users are using the product. Svitlana Malovana is in TOP 25 women in IT by Forbes Ukraine, TOP 20 Women Lea...
Andrii Dligach / War Time Episode
June 27, 2023 11:23 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBAndrii Dligach is Doctor of Economics, Strategist, Futurologist, and Visionary. Also he is: Founder of the Board business community (1.500 Ukrainian businessmen globally) Co-founder of the Center for Economic Recovery Co-founder at Singularity University Kyiv Investor and ideologist of ecosystems and technology startups. In this conversation with Dominique Piotet Andrii Dligach shared his vision on anthological war in Ukraine, transition from the world of boarders to the world of roads....
Andrew Pryma / Ukrainian Business News / War Time Episode
June 14, 2023 15:23 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBAndrew Pryma came back to Ukraine in 2021 after a decade of life in the USA and a successful career on Wall Street. In this frank dialogue with Dominique Piotet investor Andrew Pryma is sharing the story of foundation of a digital media UBN.news covering news about business opportunities in Ukraine in 7 languages and specific arguments for investing in Ukraine today and coming back to the country. Subscribe to the daily newsletter of the Ukrainian Business News: https://ubn.news/subscrib...
Valerii Iakovenko / Drone.UA / War Time Episode
June 07, 2023 20:25 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBValerii Iakovenko is Founder at Drone.UA. A medical doctor by background and a serial entrepreneur in 2013 together with a partner he established Drone.UA. Today, the Drone.UA group of companies is TOP-3 the most innovative enterprise in the agricultural sector of Ukraine according to the FORBES. And is included in the list of the TOP-20 most innovative enterprises in Ukraine. Before full-scale war in Ukraine Drone.UA operated in the fields of energy and the oil and gas industry, as well...
Niels Ackermann & Sébastien Gobert / Independent Journalists Specialised on Ukraine / War Time Episode
May 25, 2023 00:22 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBIn February 2022, the Swiss magazine L'Illustré published an article about pre-war Ukraine and included a story about the innovation park UNIT.City Dominique Piotet was running at that moment as an example of a developing and blooming Ukraine. On the podcast Swiss photojournalist Niels Ackermann and French journalist Sébastien Gobert, both specializing on Ukraine, speak from the perspective of independent reporters about the war in Ukraine which lasts over 9 years, the media presence of U...
Viroslava Novosylna / SLOVA Tech PR & WTech / War Time Episode
May 17, 2023 16:43 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBViroslava Novosylna, CEO & Founder PR agency SLOVA Tech PR, co-founder of the international non-profit community of women in tech Wtech, Board member at Advisory board PRCA, VC/PR Partner at TA Ventures and PR Army co-founder, TechStars Paris mentor. It's the conversation about the unstoppable Ukrainian entrepreneurial spirit, tech companies in a wartime, and the Ukrainian PR army fighting for peace and justice. https://www.pr.army/ www.slova.agency/en https://wtech.club/en/
Fedir Serdiuk / FAST & PULSE / War Time Episode
May 10, 2023 23:51 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MBFedir Serdiuk (born in 1995, in Odesa, Ukraine) is an entrepreneur and co-founder of FAST / PULSE & Beta-Victory technologies. Also, he is an advisor to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine and a Board Member of the Ukrainian Startup Fund. During his career, most of the projects initiated by Fedir Serdiuk were focused on solving safety issues. Serdiuk spent several years as a Red Cross Rescue Team leader and Military and law enforcement personnel trainer. He is recognized as a tactical emer...
Alex Bornyakov / BRAVE1 & Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine / War Time Episode
May 03, 2023 17:56 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBAlex Bornyakov is the Deputy Minister of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation and Head of the Diia City project. The last time Dominique Piotet and Alex Bornyakov spoke on this podcast was in October 2020 https://mayak-innovatsiy.simplecast.com/episodes/mayak-innovatsiy-season3-episode2-alex-bornyakov-diia-city In this episode, Alex shared the news on behalf of the Ministry of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation in a year of the full-scale war in Ukraine and presen...
Ivan Kaunov & Alex Solovei / Finmap / War Time Episode
April 27, 2023 23:38 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBAlex Solovei and Ivan Kaunov are co-founders of the cash flow management platform Finmap. War time episode oh the podcast was recorded on April, 26, 2023, while Ivan Kaunov is still fighting in the war in Ukraine. Finmap was founded in 2019. At the beginning of 2021, the team was joined by Dmytro Dubilet, who is also a co-founder of monobank. In 2020 and 2021, the company received two rounds of investments from European investors and business angels, and successfully graduated from Start...
Roman Torgovitsky / Healing War Scars
April 26, 2023 21:17 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBRoman Torgovitsky, Ph.D. is a Harvard-trained biomedical scientist (biostatistics/epidemiology/sleep medicine), author, TEDx speaker, medical and health disruptive innovator, philanthropist, and founder of Healing War Scars, a non-profit dedicated to helping veterans and civilians to overcome war-induced mental and physical health problems. Roman's passion for medical and health innovation was born out of a painful experience trying to find a physician who could help his ill father. He spen...
Dominique Piotet at TED 2023
April 20, 2023 04:33 - 1 minute - 1.4 MBThis week Dominique Piotet is attending TED Conference in Vancouver, Canada. It's a global event bringing together a group of industry leaders and impactful people for unique, multi-day experiences dedicated to TED’s global mission of sharing meaningful new ideas. Today's episode is just a small and warm hello from Dominique to the friends of the podcast "Mayak Innovatsiy: Ukrainian Pitch". Stay tuned! And Slava Ukraine! Dominique Piotet is the co-founder of Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, an e...
Glovo Ukraine / War Time Episode 2023
April 12, 2023 19:48 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBMaryna Pavliuk, General Manager in Ukraine & Sacha Michaud, Co-Founder at Glovo, shared with Dominique Piotet news about the company in general and amazing news on behalf of Glovo's people in Ukraine in wartime 2022-2023. Listen to the previous conversation between Dominique Piotet and Sacha Michaud recorded in March 2022: https://mayak-innovatsiy.simplecast.com/episodes/mi-ukrainian-pitch-glovo
Kostiantyn Tupikov / IT KEY MEDIA / War Time Episode
April 05, 2023 23:24 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBKostiantyn Tupikov is a Creative Lead at ITKey.Media, a Warsaw-based English-speaking media established in 2015 and one of not many covering stories about startups, investments, and tech innovation in Ukraine and Eastern Europe overall. Dominique Piotet discussed with Kostiantyn Tupikov the situation on the market during a full-scale invasion of russia to Ukraine, the news on behalf of Ukrainian startups and young companies.
Vitalii Lopushanskyi / UA DAMAGE / War Time Episode
March 29, 2023 20:46 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBVitalii Lopushanskyi is the Founder of UADAMAGE, AI Partner, and Advisor of Team4UA by HIT. Host - Dominique Piotet, board member at UNIT.City, co-founder at Ukrainian Phoenix Fund (based in USA), co-founder at NGO Team4UA by Humanitarian Innovative Technologies (based in Lviv) & US representative of Beetroot. This episode is recorded in wartime on March 29, 2023, in San Francisco and Kyiv, online via www.iris.fm
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Vlad Savchenko from EASE
April 14, 2022 03:00 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBVlad Savchenko – Ukrainian IT businessman, President of the European association of software engineering, founder of Powercode — International IT company and Foodex24 delivery service. Dominique Piotet discussed with Vlad the situation in IT market of Ukraine during wartime. https://it-ease.com/en/ MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Lesha Shaldenko from Wantent
April 07, 2022 02:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBLesha Shaldenko, CEO at Wantent, spent 32 days in a bomb shelter in Kyiv and kept working for his company and cooperating with video production companies, OTT platforms, TV channels, and advertising agencies across the world. Wantent is a unique AI-based platform that identifies consumer reactions to the content and provides an analysis of the emotional connection between client and product by applying machine learning technologies. https://www.wantent.io/ MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pi...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Iryna Supruniuk from TechUkraine
March 31, 2022 10:41 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBTechUkraine is a non-governmental organization and media platform that represents the voices of the Ukrainian tech ecosystem. In this episode, editor-in-chief of TechUkraine.org Iryna Supruniuk shared numbers of relocated Ukrainian IT specialists, news on behalf of companies helping Ukraine and its people, and a vision of how to rebuild Ukraine and its tech ecosystem once the war is over. A lot of challenges including brain drain are ahead, but everything is TECHable with Ukraine! Read offi...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Anton Volovyk from Reface
March 24, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBElon Musk, Justin Bieber, Snoop Dogg, Miley Cyrus, and many other celebrities use the Ukrainian app Reface. The Reface app is a leader in AI/ML technologies for personalized content creation and hit #1 in the App Store soon after release. Also, Reface is famous for receiving a $5.5 million investment from the Andreessen Horowitz Foundation of America and business angels just in 26 hours after the meeting. In the very first hours of war in Ukraine, Reface launched an information campaign ai...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Sacha Michaud from Glovo
March 17, 2022 20:46 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBLast week Spanish online delivery platform Glovo has partially resumed operations across 20 Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, to provide essential services and give humanitarian support. Having suspended all operations on Feb. 24 after Russia invaded, Glovo restarted in a limited capacity due to an increased demand for vital services to residents and NGOs who are unable to access food, medicine, and urgent basic goods. Glovo delivered more than 10,000 orders since restarting la...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time: Cybersecurity with Yegor Aushev
March 11, 2022 00:08 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBYegor Aushev, co-founder of Kyiv-based cybersecurity company Cyber Unit Technologies, together with more than 1,000 hackers is defending Ukraine from DoS attacks and helping organize a makeshift Ukrainian coalition of hackers that has carried out cyberattacks targeting Russia. You can join the cyber army of Ukraine messaging to Yegor Aushev on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-yegor-aushev-54b18455/ MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar....
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Bill Reichert from Pegasus Tech Ventures
February 22, 2022 05:00 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBBill Reichert is a venture capitalist and Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures from Silicon Valley. He works with startups and entrepreneurs helping them to get to wow and to grow into legendary companies. Among Bill’s cases are SpaceX and Airbnb, for instance. This episode is not a regular interview. It’s a mantra for those who dare to dream big and make an impact. Recorded in November 2021, during Kyiv International Economic Forum, when Bill Reichert was visiting Ukraine for the first time ...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Nik Gowing from Thinking the Unthinkable
February 14, 2022 08:16 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBNik Gowing is the Founder of Thinking the Unthinkable. The independent project helps leaders embrace threats and opportunities in the new era of radical uncertainty and disruption. https://www.thinkunthink.org/ Also, you may know Nik as the main presenter for the BBC’s international 24-hour news channel BBC World News 1996-2014. He presented 'The Hub with Nik Gowing', BBC World Debates, Dateline London. Nik Gowing and Dominique Piotet had a thoughtful conversation about leadership and lea...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Chris Burry from USMAC
February 07, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBChris Burry is Co-CEO of USMAC which is helping the founders of non-US technology to build great companies that can succeed not only in their local market but in global markets as well. In the past 5 years, USMAC has worked with the founders of more than 2,000 startups from more than 40 countries, including founders in Ukraine. What is USMAC’s mission? What is effectuation in entrepreneurship? Listen to this episode if you want to learn this, plus other secrets of successful entrepreneurshi...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch for Inshe Interview
January 06, 2022 13:17 - 51 minutes - 47 MBThis time Dominique Piotet, CEO at UNIT.City, is a hero of “Інше інтерв’ю” (Different Interview), the podcast #1 in Ukraine by Volodymyr Anfimov. It’s a frank conversation about Ukraine’s image in the world, about challenges the world is facing today, and about the mindset of a rebel. The episode is available in Ukrainian: Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3je3Dlt Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3b9x2ZL SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/attic_studio/d-piotet Web: https://inshe.simplecast.c...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch by Microsoft / Petcube / 3DLOOK / UNIT.City
December 21, 2021 06:08 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBThe world of work is changing. Artificial intelligence and automation replace a lot of jobs and create new ones. The COVID-19 crisis accelerated existing trends and caused organizations to reevaluate many aspects of work. In this episode Dominique Piotet, CEO at UNIT.City, Vadim Rogovsky, Founder at 3DLOOK, Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Founder at Petcube, Jan Peter de Jong, Country Manager at Microsoft Ukraine, are talking about the latest perspectives on the future of work, workforce, and workplace. ...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch by Nicolas Brusson from BlaBlaCar. KIEF-2021 Edition
October 26, 2021 04:53 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBEpisode # 2 (36) Season 5. Nicolas Brusson is CEO and co-founder of BlaBlaCar. BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel network enabling over 100 million members to share a ride across 22 markets. BlaBlaCar’s environmentally and human-friendly mobility network saves 1.6M tons of CO2 and enables 120M human encounters every year. Nicolas leads the company’s global operations and international growth. He drives BlaBlaCar’s corporate development and has successfully led the com...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch by Oleksandr Solovei from FINMAP
October 01, 2021 05:08 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBEpisode # 1 (35) Season 5 FINMAP is a cash flow management for modern business. It's a young but already global company. On MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch we've been talking about a way of an entrepreneur, about smart acceleration with 500 Startups and Startup Wise Guys, and about the art of dealing with money. From Ukraine to the world. https://finmap.online/en/ Produced by The Podcast Bar and Tatiana Morozova Skydan. Sound engineering by Masterskaya and Pasha Cecetov.
Mayak Innovatsiy_Vadim Rogovsky from 3DLOOK _S.4_Ep#12
July 04, 2021 21:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBVadim Rogovsky is CEO & Co-Founder at 3DLOOK which is transforming fashion retail and manufacturing industries by providing contactless real-time body measurements and size recommendations to end consumers. Raised money from some of the most prominent investors - 500 Startups, Boost VC, Natalia Vodianova, and received the LVMH Innovation Award. We were talking about 3D scanning technology, the future of fashion, trends in retail and consumer behavior, and sweatpants as a world trend. Thank...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Andriy Fedoriv_S.4_Ep#11
June 21, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBAndriy Fedoriv is Founder and CEO of creative investment company FEDORIV GROUP, which include: FEDORIV AGENCY (international marketing agency), FEDORIV HUB (the next-level event platform & public multimedia space), FEDORIV VLOG (YouTube channel with 100 000+ subscribers). We were discussing what it means to be a Brand Father and creative capitalist, how to create global brands, and make early-stage investments. Also, we touched on such topics as freedom and inspiration. Thanks for the sound...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Oleg Kurchenko from Binaryx_S.4_Ep#10
June 07, 2021 08:52 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBOleg Kurchenko is Founder & CEO of Binaryx Exchange, Buying, Selling, and Trading Cryptocurrencies. We were talking about trends in the crypto world, mining, hackers, tokenization of everything, NFT, and the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.
Mayak Innovatsiy_Andreas Flodström from Beetroot_S.4_Ep#9
May 24, 2021 13:52 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBAndreas Flodström is an entrepreneur & CEO. 9 years ago he moved from Sweden to Ukraine and co-founded the Swedish-Ukrainian IT companies Beetroot & Beetroot Academy, now totaling 500+ team members. Beetroot helps VC-funded startups and large enterprises to scale their R&D capacity, in a sustainable way. Beetroot Academy teaches intensive IT courses and has 3,200 graduates, 70% of which were employed in IT within 6 months after graduation. We were talking about running IT business in Ukrai...
Mayak Innovatsiy_L'Oreal Ukraine & Supplio_S.4_Ep#8
May 11, 2021 11:29 - 37 minutes - 34 MBThis episode aims to bridge the gap between large corporations and startups and show how they collaborate. On behalf of the corporation is Mark Sawchuk, Country Manager at L'Oreal Ukraine. Startups are represented by Adam Golovenko, Founder of Supplio, a platform that integrates suppliers and beauty salons into a single system. We were talking about innovations in the beauty industry and the ideas startups bring to traditional businesses. This episode was Zoomed due to quarantine restricti...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Dasha Kichuk from Effa_S.4_Ep#7
April 26, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBDasha Kichuk is CEO and Co-Founder of Effa which is creating sustainable products, aiming to replace disposable plastics around the World. Together with her husband Dasha launched Effa company to create toothbrushes made of paper. Among clients of Effa are famous hotel chains, airlines, and even Netflix. https://effabrush.com/ This episode was recorded in NEST, a space in UNIT.City entirely dedicated to the startups. https://unit.city/nest/ Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Mark Patchet from Growth Shop_S.4_Ep#6
April 12, 2021 13:32 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBMark Patchet is e-commerce Entrepreneur and Founder of Growth Shop, an international marketing agency and one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in the world. In less than 2 years, GS has grown by more than $ 1 billion. The company’s offices are based in the UK, Ukraine and Vietnam. We’ve been talking about e-commerce. How does it work? What are the key components of growing a company online? Why Tik Tok is cool, and how to use it? Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast t...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Mark Patchett from Growth Shop_S.4_Ep#6
April 12, 2021 13:32 - 45 minutes - 41.2 MBMark Patchett is e-commerce Entrepreneur and Founder of Growth Shop, an international marketing agency and one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies in the world. In less than 2 years, GS has grown by more than $ 1 billion. The company’s offices are based in the UK, Ukraine and Vietnam. We’ve been talking about e-commerce. How does it work? What are the key components of growing a company online? Why Tik Tok is cool, and how to use it? Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Max Gurvits from Vitosha Venture Partners_S.4_Ep#5
March 29, 2021 07:20 - 51 minutes - 47.2 MBMax Gurvits is a US/European entrepreneur, Chief Host at Summit Summit & Partner at Vitosha Venture Partners. Active in Europe and the Middle East as startup advisor and investor, Max is particularly focused on Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Also, Max runs TRACTION Camp, a series of three-day workshops with Silicon Valley operators, for top founders in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. We’ve been talking about new normal in events, and on the startup & investments scene, about Ukraine as a p...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Daniel Szemerey from Health Venture Lab_S.4_Ep#4
March 15, 2021 10:18 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBDaniel Szemerey co-founded and spearheads the growth of Health Venture Lab, a pan-European Healthtech accelerator with offices in Hungary, Spain and Poland. HVL covers the full pipeline, from need-based research, through early-stage product-market fit iteration, to growth-stage companies. If you want to apply, pls go: https://hvlab.eu/ We were talking about MedTech trends, immortality and the merging of humans and machines - how soon will it happen? Thanks for the sound engineering of the ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_IVAN DORN_S.4_Ep#3
March 02, 2021 13:45 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MBIvan Dorn is a singer, DJ and producer, MTV European Music Awards winner. His music combines elements of house, disco, pop, jazz, funk, UK garage, hip-hop and soul. He is a champion in ballroom dancing and sailing. He is also good in chess, tennis and football. In 2016, Ivan started Masterskaya, a music hub and an independent music label focused on bringing the exciting sound of Ukrainian underground to the main stage. We were talking about rebelliousness, American dream, the identity of ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Andrii Degeler_TechEU_S.4_Ep#2
February 15, 2021 00:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBAndrii Degeler is a journalist and podcast host based in the Netherlands. He is covering tech news since 2007 for Tech.EU, Engadget, TNW, Ars Technica UK, the Kyiv Post, and more. We’ve been talking about recent tech news, and about the perception of the Ukrainian IT-ecosystem in Europe. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.
Mayak Innovatsiy_Yura Lazebnikov_WePlay Esports_S.4_Ep#1
February 01, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBYura Lazebnikov is a managing partner of esports media holding company WePlay Esports which is developing esports studios and arenas from Kyiv to Los Angeles. We discussed trends in esports, spectacular tournaments, earnings of top-ranking players, and Ukraine's advantages in terms of esports. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.
Mayak Innovatsiy_Giorgi Iukuridze_SHABO
December 24, 2020 13:48 - 1 hour - 56.2 MBGiorgi Iukuridze — co-founder of SHABO, the biggest and the most innovative winery in Ukraine. We’ve been talking about technologies in agriculture and in winemaking. What is so special about Ukrainian wine? Which technologies do help winemakers? Can we trust a robot sommelier? How did COVID change the consumption of wine? Is that true that a glass of sparkling wine could be equal to a 30 min walk in a park? Listen to learn more about winemaking, and cheers for a New Year! Thanks for the ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_S.3_Episode#5_Alex ZeroGravity Kokhanovskyy_UPEA
December 01, 2020 08:04 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MBAlexander "ZeroGravity" Kokhanovskyy has more than 20 years of experience in the esports and the gaming industry. He is the CEO & Co-Owner of DreamTeam - the first esports and gaming recruitment and management network. He built the 2nd most popular and one of the most successful teams in the history of esports - Natus Vincere (Na`Vi) and is the Co-Owner of ESForce, the 3rd biggest esports entity funded by USM Holdings (shareholder of VK.com, Mail.ru, Megafon, etc.) with $100 mln investment ...
Mayak Innovatsiy_Season#3_Episode#4_Jan Peter de Jong_Microsoft Ukraine
November 25, 2020 10:24 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBJan Peter de Jong has over 20 years of sales and management experience in digital transformation. As a Country Manager of Microsoft in Ukraine, Jan Peter is focusing on digitization, philanthropy, education, and the overall progress of Ukraine. Jan Peter graduated with a master's in Astronomy at Leiden University in The Netherlands. Thanks to scientific research at the beginning of his career, and his passion for the applicable project management, he shifted from pure science to business. ...