Mayak Innovatsiy

Yura 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, and storytelling to create unparalleled viewer experiences. The company accelerates the entertainment industry with creative solutions in broadcasting, augmented reality, visual effects, interactive experiences, etc. Networks, brands, and agencies around the world turn to WePlay Studios for content development, production execution, and highly targeted brand integrations.Founded in Kyiv, Ukraine, by Yura Lazebnikov and Oleg Krot, the company has dual headquarters in Los Angeles, California, and Kyiv, Ukraine, with high-tech arenas and studios specialized for creating content of any kind. Today, WePlay Studios is the strategic partner of One True King, the largest streaming community in the United States, and the production partner of the Enthusiast Gaming organization.The WePlay team was shortlisted for the Sports Emmy Awards for 2022 for outstanding coverage of an esports event and a finalist of the 2021 Esports Awards for Creative Team of the Year, among many other awards. WePlay Studios is proud to have developed, produced, hosted, and broadcast over 30 esports and gaming events, amassing nearly two million followers and 235 million views on Twitch.https://weplay.tv/ On this podcast, Dominique Piotet, co-founder of the Ukrainian Phoenix Fund, discussed with Yura Lazebnikov scaling of the businesses from Ukraine to the global market. The podcast was recorded in September 2023 and sound engineered by The Podcast Bar: https://thepodcast.bar/

Ivan 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/wutan9rimdtvcd6kIvan 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 and sound engineered by The Podcast Bar: https://thepodcast.bar/

Arnaud 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. Arnaud underscores Luxembourg's unique strengths, including its focus on Space Resources, a robust Fintech ecosystem, High-Performance Computing, a Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, and the innovative Digital Embassy Program. In a remarkable achievement, Luxinnovation, the national innovation agency of Luxembourg, is part of a consortium that secured 20 million Euros in funding from the European Innovation Council to support over 200 Ukrainian DeepTech startups in Europe. Contact Arnaud Lumet: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaud-lumet/The podcast was recorded in September 2023 and sound engineered by The Podcast Bar: https://thepodcast.bar/

Michael 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 through successful ICO (December, 2015) the first public Ukrainian exchange of crypto assets KUNA.io was launched https://kuna.io/en• In December, 2017, with community of like-minded professionals, Mr. Chobanyan created and headed the Blockchain Association of Ukraine (ABU) http://bau.ai• In January, 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos he introduced the concept of Blockchain HUB (cross-border network of professional spaces for solving the urgent problems of the Fourth Industrial Revolution). The opening of the flagship Blockchain HUB in Kyiv took place in March, 2018.• Since the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, Michael Chobanyan has launched a Crypto Fund for Ukraine to help the Armed Forces which has raised over $100 million of donations. At the request of the Ministry of Digital Transformation, Chobanyan helped the Government of Ukraine to create and manage state cryptocurrency wallets for donations in Kuna Exchange.• In March 2022, Michael Chobanyan spoke at a hearing of the US Senate Committee on how cryptocurrencies help Ukraine during the war with Russia and why Russian oligarchs will not be able to circumvent sanctions with their help.The podcast was recorded in August 2023 and sound engineered by The Podcast Bar: https://thepodcast.bar/

Zoya 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 August 2023 and sound engineered by The Podcast Bar: https://thepodcast.bar/

In 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 March 2022 with the start of the russian full-scale invasion. Founding team found a gap in disinformation analysis and countering and started cooperating with government agencies as volunteers. The proposed AI solution became the basis for creating the first version of Osavul. Soon, Osavul software has been implemented and is used by the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and Ukrainian security and defense agencies. Request demo: https://www.osavul.cloud/***The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!  

Ilia 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/enCreative 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 podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!

Svitlana 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 Leaders by Empowering Women Innovators, and Role Model of the Year by Euroasian Startup Award. Book demo: https://team-pulse.io/***The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!   

Andrii 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 RecoveryCo-founder at Singularity University KyivInvestor 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. Listen to get insights and learn about windows of opportunities in IT, food production, new energy and other industries growing despite the war. https://dligach.com/uk***The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!

Andrew 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/subscribe/And invest in Ukraine.***The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!

Valerii 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 as in the fields of geodesy and topography. Drone.UA technologies were used on more than 4 million hectares of sown area in ​​Ukraine.Nowadays, Drone.UA is involved in defense of Ukraine against the russian aggression.You can reach out to Valerii Iakovenko directly: https://www.facebook.com/valeri.iakovenko***The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors and any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com

In 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 Ukraine, the war fatigue in Europe and the world, and positive trends of the current situation.This episode was recorded on May, 24, 2023, when ruzzians attacked New York, a small city in the East of Ukraine, and a teenage girl was wounded. In 2021 Niels Ackermann and Sébastien Gobert wrote a book about Ukrainian New York. Their previous common book "Looking for Lenin" was issued in 2017 and dedicated to the de-communization of Ukraine. The authors hunted down and photographed banned statues of Lenin, revealing their inglorious fate. Also, Dominique Piotet mentioned a 3D-printing project he's co-managing now in Lviv, Ukraine. Here you can learn more: https://www.wearehit.org/The podcast MI: Ukrainian Pitch is an independent media, we don't have sponsors or any financing. If you want to support us, feel free to donate via PayPal: mayak.podcast@gmail.com Merci!   

Viroslava 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/enhttps://wtech.club/en/ 

Fedir 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 emergency casualty care instructor by California Emergency Medical Services Authority.In 2016 he founded FAST company performing high-quality practical first aid training in accordance with​ evidence-based medicine standards. Along with its partners, FAST offers Health&Safety training, audit, consulting and IT solutions, and fire prevention measures. Among FAST's clients are leading International and Ukrainian businesses, including Metro Group, Kernel S.A., Metinvest B.V., Naftogaz Group, etc.Within a year of the full-scale war in Ukraine, Fedir Serdiuk established PULSE Ukraine, tactical medicine training for military personnel, and first aid training for rescuers, police officers, and volunteers. https://pulse.charityhttps://actfast.pro/ 

Alex 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-cityIn 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 presented BRAVE1, a defense tech platform for military technological developments from UAVs to demining systems. The project BRAVE1 was launched by: the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. Learn more: https://brave1.gov.ua/en/The episode was recorded on May 3, 2023, from San Francisco & Washington, USA, and produced by The Podcast Bar from Madrid, Spain. 

Alex 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 Startup Wise Guys accelerator.In February 2023, Finmap.online closed a €1M funding round, with SMOK Ventures as a leading investor. Czech VC Presto Ventures, investment company Capital Genetics, and the CEO of tbi bank Petr Baron also join the round.Finmap's main product is a cloud service and iOS application that helps business owners keep track of their company's money and personal finances. By using 3 simple buttons – income, outcome, and transfer – all analytics appears in a few clicks at a glance: how much the company earned, which projects are more profitable, a statement of cash flows, accounts receivable, and payable of the company. Sign up now and try 14 days for free: https://finmap.online/en/    

Roman 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 spent years searching and observing how the medical system kept sending his dad from one specialist to another, prescribing more and more medications that caused more and more side effects, making his father's life more and more miserable.Since that time, he has been trying to find answers to two fundamental questions: (1) Why do the medical and psychological systems fail to help so many people? (2) What can we do to help these people?His research and practice over the past ten years led him to crucial conclusions: (1) Fundamental assumptions made about a human organism implicitly used by both medical and psychological/psychotherapy systems are wrong (2) We need to design an entirely new system based on modern scientific understanding of how human organism functions.Based on this new vision, he has developed a new class of interventions for people suffering from many chronic conditions, including insomnia, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and many others.Nowadays, his work is focused on the Ukrainian health crisis caused by the war. Most international and Ukrainian stakeholders assume that war-induced stress causes mental health problems and talk therapy is necessary and sufficient to help people. This implicit assumption contradicts modern research and will lead to disastrous results. Roman champions a very different perspective. Instead of relying exclusively on existing interventions that have low effectiveness, fail to help most people,  and are built on false assumptions, we need to develop a research and implementation center to implement, quantify, assess, and optimize modern interventions rooted in a much more insightful model of what a human organism is.In his public talks, Roman uses cutting-edge multidisciplinary science to dispel common myths about health and disease promoted by popular media, influencers, and key opinion leaders. He aims to expand listener knowledge to have a meaningfully positive and practical impact on one's health and well-being.Contact: https://www.facebook.com/roman.torgovitsky 

This 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 early-stage venture capital fund managed by LA French Tech Kyiv. The fund is located in Kyiv, Ukraine, and invests in Ukraine. Also, Dominique Piotet is the US representative at Beetroot, a Swedish-Ukrainian tech company, building sustainable tech teams and software for companies around the world.

Maryna 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 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 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 

Vlad 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.

Lesha 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 Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

TechUkraine 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 official tech news from Ukraine: https://techukraine.org/MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Elon 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 aimed to show the truth of what's happening to the users. In this episode, Anton Volovyk, Chief Operating Officer at Reface, is sharing the war strategy of the company and the news about fundraising by Reface to aid Ukrainian defenders. Join: https://reface.fund/MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Last 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 last week and has more than 700 couriers currently able to operate in the country.We've reached out co-founder of Glovo Sacha Michaud to get a comment on this. MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Yegor 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.Music Credit: Laniakea - Hyperion (Previously Unreleased) from Slava Ukraini! by Various Artists (Fundraiser for Ukraine) https://houseofmythology.bandcamp.com/track/hyperion-previously-unreleased

Bill 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 looking for new opportunities. And he saw the next big thing here!MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Nik 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 leaders who could face the challenges of the time to ensure our survival on this planet. This episode was recorded during Kyiv International Economic Forum in November 2021, but recent events in Ukraine and in the world have heightened the urgency with which these issues were discussed.MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Chris 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 entrepreneurship, and why brain circulation is more important than brain drain.MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced by ThePodcast.Bar and sound engineered by Masterskaya.Space.

This 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/3je3DltGoogle Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3b9x2ZLSoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/attic_studio/d-piotetWeb: https://inshe.simplecast.com/episodes/dominique-piotetMAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced by ThePodcast.Bar and sound engineered by Masterskaya.Space.

The 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.The recording session happened in a busy restaurant in the city center of Kyiv before the new 2022 year.MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch is produced and sound engineered by ThePodcast.Bar.

Episode # 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 company's various rounds of financing and acquisitions. Nicolas is a strong supporter of autonomous local teams and acqui-hire, a strategy he implemented to expand BlaBlaCar's footprint to a global scale.This episode has been recorded during Kyiv International Economic Forum 2021 (October, 7). We've been talking about BlaBlaCar in Ukraine and about the tech future of Ukraine. A small hint – it's amazing."MAYAK INNOVATSIY: Ukrainian Pitch" is produced by ThePodcast.Bar and sound engineered by Masterskaya.Space.

Episode # 1 (35) Season 5FINMAP 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.

Vadim 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.Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Andriy 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 engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Oleg 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.

Andreas 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 Ukraine, sustainability in program development, trends in IT education, and good ingredients for IT-borscht.Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

This 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 restrictions. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Dasha 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 to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov. 

Mark 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 to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Max 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 powerhouse for tech talents, and also about what’s next?This episode was ZOOMed. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Daniel 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 podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Ivan 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 Ukrainian music, and contemporary technologies in music. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Andrii 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.

Yura 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.

Giorgi 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 sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Alexander "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 in the latest round.In September 2020 Alex Kokhanovskyy has founded Ukrainian Professional Esports Association https://upea.com.ua/In Ukraine alone, two million people follow esports, and experts predict the industry could become the world’s number one sport over the next 10 years.We were talking about the life of a common e-player, about the positive impact of COVID on the gaming industry, about the esports-future of Ukraine, also, about why Kyiv is a Barça in esports,  and who is e-Messi. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Jan 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.We were talking about the main pillars of digital transformation, growth mindset, fairness and transparency of data, education, and empowerment of people, and about how to make Ukraine a better place using technologies. Thanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Vitaly Sych — Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Novoye Vremya”, one of the leading media in Ukraine. We were talking about the standards of genuine journalistic, about media as a business, about fake news and social media as a massive phenomenon, about technologies such as AI behind the modern media, and its chances to compete with a human being in journalism. Also, from this episode, you can find out what topic is more popular in Ukraine — sex or politics. For topical news from Ukraine pls visit: https://nv.ua/ukrThanks for the sound engineering of the podcast to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.

Alex Bornyakov — Deputy Minister of The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine in charge of IT. We were talking about Diia City, a special legal framework for the IT industry. Also, we’ve discussed E-residence, paperless initiatives, digitalization of entrepreneurship tools and tax system, simplifying entry for IT-employees from other countries, and the attraction of investment to Ukraine.The episode was recorded on October 9, 2020, exactly a year ago Alex Bornyakov had joined The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. Since the recording day, plenty of new initiatives have been launched by The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine. For the news and more details go: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diia-city/  Thanks for sound engineering to Masterskaya.Space and especially to Pasha Cecetov.