
🌱SEEDS OF BRAVERY
We create the history of the Ukrainian deep tech sector. This year our team has become a driving force for:
🔹 launch of 2 cohorts of Deep Tech Accelerator;
🔹 attraction by the first cohorts of $2M investments that are already entering new markets – in particular the USA and the EU;
🔹 mapping of 1600 + innovative organizations in 15 European countries, with a focus on support programs for women entrepreneurs;
🔹 IoT Soft Landing program – a series of workshops that helped to reveal all the main aspects of the growing European IoT market;
🔹 Market Discovery Workshop is a series of workshops that help Ukrainian entrepreneurs learn more about the markets of different European countries and how to successfully enter them.
🌐 WIN-WIN EDIH
Launched the European Digital Innovation Hub, which will help Ukrainian companies, startups and the public sector to introduce new technologies and grow. The project is part of the Digital Europe programme with a budget of €7.9 billion, supporting digital change across Europe.
🚀 ACCELERATION OF STARTUPS
🔹 Acceleration supported by USAID (30 startups)
🔹 InterHEI (10 startups)
🔹 UASEEDs Deep Tech Accelerator (19 startups)
🔹 EIT Founders2Founders (70 startups)
✨ EVENTS THAT MADE THIS YEAR BRIGHTER:
💻 IT ARENA, where we spent:
Seeds of Bravery Press Conference
Startup community brunch
And also – we joined a large number of events as a jury or organizers.
📈 And now more about our achievements in numbers:
🔹 External investments attracted: $6.4 million
🔹 100 new permanent full-time jobs.
🔹 491 permanent jobs saved.
🔹 11 businesses зʼявився/розширився an export market, in particular in the USA, Poland, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Latvia, Finland.
🙏 We thank our partners, mentors and team for the incredible contribution to the development of the Ukrainian startup ecosystem!
Together we are building the future of innovative Ukraine! 🇺🇦