Dominique Piotet

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/en

https://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.charity

https://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-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 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/