Dominique Piotet

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.

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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, it said on Tuesday.

Having suspended all operations on Feb. 24 after Russia invaded, Glovo said it 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.

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 

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) 

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.