NONSALES: A number of new home startups, established in Ukraine

NONSALES: A number of new home startups, established in Ukraine
Grammarly
Grammarly is an online service that helps you track errors in English texts

With the help of artificial intelligence, the program analyzes texts and offers options for their improvement in 4 categories: correctness (grammar, spelling), clarity (brevity and intelligibility), fascination (vocabulary and diversity), and tone (formality, politeness, and confidence).

Grammarly offers a clear, real-time interface, both online and offline, with a browser extension, a web editor, a Microsoft Office add-on, a desktop application, and a mobile keyboard for iOS and Android.

In 2017 the company received $ 110 million in investments, in 2019 - $ 90 million, having built up a foreign exchange of investments up to 200 million dollars.

Grammarly was also ranked as the "Most Innovative Company in the World 2019" in the "Artificial Intelligence" category by Fast Company and included in the "Wealthfront's Career-Launching Companies" list by Wealthfront.

In 2020, the company entered the ranking of the best companies working with cloud technologies, Cloud 100 from Forbes.

About 30 million people and more than 30,000 business client teams use the service every day.

Grammarly has offices in Kyiv, New York, and Vancouver with more than 500 employees. Headquartered in San Francisco.

PrePly

Preply - an online service for finding tutors in foreign languages. The service connects teachers with students via the Internet. The platform uses an algorithm for ranking and classification of tutors, which has elements of machine learning.

The company was founded by Serhiy Lukyanov, Dmytro Voloshin, and Kyryl Bigay in 2012. In the same year, the IDCEE conference named it one of the most promising Ukrainian startups.

In 2013, the company began operating in the markets of Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and the Russian Federation. In 2015, the service appeared in Poland and 2016 - in Brazil.

PrePly received $ 120,000 in start-up funding from the US startup accelerator Techstars in 2015. The following year, the company received a round of investment of 1.3 million dollars.

Preply services can be used in 15 countries around the world. The service base has 25 thousand tutors in 40 subjects and more than one hundred thousand students.

In total, the company employs 100 workers. The headquarters is located in Boston.

 

Petcube

Petcube manufactures gadgets for pet owners. The company was founded in 2012 by Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Oleksandr Neskin, and Andriy Klon.

The first product was a cube-shaped device that allows you to monitor your pet through a mobile application. With the help of a smartphone via the Internet, you can control the cube and watch the animal, and also talk and play laser with it. Thanks to this, the pet owner sees that everything is OK with his pet, and the pet is not worried and is not afraid to be alone, because he hears the voice of the owner.

In 2013, Petcube launched a campaign on Kickstarter and raised $ 100,000 a week. In total, the project raised 251 thousand dollars and became the most successful Ukrainian project on Kickstarter.

Petcube won the prestigious European competition of startups Europas in the category "Best hardware-startup" in 2014, and in 2016 took 14th place in the ranking of the most innovative companies in Ukraine according to the site forbes.net.ua.

The company has offices in San Francisco, Shenzhen, and Kyiv. In total, it employs more than 60 people. Android and IOS applications are being developed in Kyiv.

 

TemplateMonster

TemplateMonster is an IT company that develops and sells site templates and other web solutions.  

The company dates back to 2002 when it was only a web design studio. Later it decided to offer ready-made solutions for creating sites that will be more affordable than individual development.

In 2005, the company already had 10,000 templates, and in 2019 - 21,000, were created by more than 1,600 authors.

TemplateMonster sells HTML5 and Bootstrap templates, templates for CMS and E-commerce platforms, PSD templates, and corporate style elements.

Each template of the company is focused on specific industries: photo studios, restaurants, clinics, etc.

TemplateMonster is one of the TOP 3 global manufacturers of web solutions for websites. The company is headquartered in New York. Offices are located in Mykolaiv, Kyiv, and Lviv.

TemplateMonster is one of the TOP 3 global manufacturers of web solutions for websites. The company is headquartered in New York. Offices are located in Mykolaiv, Kyiv, and Lviv.

Deposit Photos

Depositphotos is a photobank with over 170 million files that can be purchased or downloaded for free. It is a so-called mediator between sellers and buyers of photos, vector and editorial images, illustrations, and video clips.

The company was founded in Kyiv in 2009  by Dmitry Sergeyev. Two years later, it received $ 3 million in the first significant venture capital investment from TMT investments.

In less than four years Depositphotos reached the mark of 10 million files and was considered one of the fastest-growing photobanks in the world. The revenue of the service was 6 million dollars, and the cost reached 100 million dollars.

In 2014, Depositphotos launched an online magazine on photography and visual culture Bird in Flight, 2 years later - a platform for corporate clients Enterprise Solution

In 2017, Depositphotos announced the release of Crello - an online toolkit with ready-made templates for creating the design without professional skills, which in 2019 released its mobile applications for iOS and Android.

DepositPhotos is one of the five largest photo banks in the world with more than 100 million files. The service is used in 192 countries. The company is headquartered in New York, and the development team also works in Kyiv.

Terrasoft

Terrasoft is an IT company known for its Creatio software products. It helps companies to organize the interaction with their customers, automate processes, optimize the marketing, service, and operational processes of the organization.  

The history of the company began in 2002 in Kyiv. Its founders were Kateryna Kostereva and Oleksandr Popov.

Terrasoft is part of the international group of companies Creatio, which has a staff of 600+ employees and customers in 110+ countries. The Creatio partner network includes 700+ organizations worldwide.

Terrasoft's clients are such companies as Rozetka, Intertop, Ukrtelecom, Datagroup.

As of 2019, according to DOU, Terrasoft was among the top 50 largest IT companies in Ukraine and the top five IT employers in Ukraine in the category of 200-800 employees.

The company is one of the leading industry leaders in the CIS market.

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