Latest Kyiv Podcast Episodes
Yura Lazebnikov / WePlay Studios
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - September 29, 2023 08:49 - 24 minutesYura 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 ST...
Ivan Kaunov / Defense Tech Startup BUNTAR
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - September 22, 2023 13:14 - 20 minutesIvan 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...
Arnaud Lumet / Luxembourg Ukraine Chamber of Commerce
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - September 14, 2023 11:30 - 22 minutesArnaud 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 sm...
Michael Chobanyan / KUNA.io
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - September 07, 2023 11:26 - 26 minutesMichael 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 Ma...
Zoya Lytvyn / Osvitoria NGO
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - August 31, 2023 15:31 - 21 minutesZoya 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 wit...
Dmytro Bilash / AI Osavul / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - July 19, 2023 14:18 - 26 minutesIn 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, counter...
Ilia Kenigshtein / Creative States / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - July 12, 2023 13:48 - 35 minutesIlia 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...
Svitlana Malovana / Teampulse / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - July 06, 2023 06:08 - 23 minutesSvitlana 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 Jan...
Andrii Dligach / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - June 27, 2023 11:23 - 20 minutesAndrii 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 ecosy...
Andrew Pryma / Ukrainian Business News / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - June 14, 2023 15:23 - 24 minutesAndrew 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 Uk...
Valerii Iakovenko / Drone.UA / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - June 07, 2023 20:25 - 19 minutesValerii 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 FORB...
Niels Ackermann & Sébastien Gobert / Independent Journalists Specialised on Ukraine / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - May 25, 2023 00:22 - 34 minutesIn 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 Ackerma...
Viroslava Novosylna / SLOVA Tech PR & WTech / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - May 17, 2023 16:43 - 27 minutesViroslava 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 ...
Fedir Serdiuk / FAST & PULSE / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - May 10, 2023 23:51 - 22 minutesFedir 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 Fed...
Alex Bornyakov / BRAVE1 & Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - May 03, 2023 17:56 - 20 minutesAlex 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-epis...
Ivan Kaunov & Alex Solovei / Finmap / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 27, 2023 23:38 - 26 minutesAlex 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 D...
Roman Torgovitsky / Healing War Scars
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 26, 2023 21:17 - 28 minutesRoman 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 wa...
Dominique Piotet at TED 2023
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 20, 2023 04:33 - 1 minuteThis 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 sm...
Glovo Ukraine / War Time Episode 2023
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 12, 2023 19:48 - 31 minutesMaryna 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 Mi...
Kostiantyn Tupikov / IT KEY MEDIA / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 05, 2023 23:24 - 20 minutesKostiantyn 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 si...
Vitalii Lopushanskyi / UA DAMAGE / War Time Episode
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - March 29, 2023 20:46 - 24 minutesVitalii 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 representat...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Vlad Savchenko from EASE
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 14, 2022 03:00 - 15 minutesVlad 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...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Lesha Shaldenko from Wantent
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - April 07, 2022 02:00 - 18 minutesLesha 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 react...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Iryna Supruniuk from TechUkraine
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - March 31, 2022 10:41 - 13 minutesTechUkraine 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 ...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Anton Volovyk from Reface
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - March 24, 2022 03:00 - 17 minutesElon 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 inves...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time with Sacha Michaud from Glovo
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - March 17, 2022 20:46 - 18 minutesLast 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 ca...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch in War Time: Cybersecurity with Yegor Aushev
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - March 11, 2022 00:08 - 18 minutesYegor 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 ...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Bill Reichert from Pegasus Tech Ventures
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - February 22, 2022 05:00 - 5 minutesBill 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 interv...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Nik Gowing from Thinking the Unthinkable
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - February 14, 2022 08:16 - 29 minutesNik 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 ne...
MI: Ukrainian Pitch with Chris Burry from USMAC
MI: Ukrainian Pitch - February 07, 2022 05:00 - 47 minutesChris 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 countrie...