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The Startup Fund That Had to Rewrite Its Pitch Overnight
Ukraine built a public fund to write the first check for young tech companies. War stopped the familiar pitch-day machine - then forced it to become something broader, faster and far more international.
StartupSoft Built a 170-Person Engineering Bench - Then AI Made the Human Part More Valuable
The Ukrainian-born firm grew by making remote engineers feel in-house. Now it is selling the same human judgment - carefully measured, reviewed and secured - to companies whose software writes software.
AB Soft
AB Soft spent more than two decades doing something unfashionably durable: building the engineering bench behind another company's communications platform. Its narrow focus is both the business's advantage and its biggest dependency.
Egor Belenkov
Egor Belenkov is the founder and CEO of Kitcast, a digital signage platform built first and foremost for Apple TV. A Ukrainian serial entrepreneur who started building companies in his early twenties, he ran business development at Mac software maker MacPaw before launching Kitcast, which now powers screens for brands like Disney Studios, American Eagle, The New York Times and Delta Dental across roughly 60 countries. He preaches a future where signage is smarter, more personalized and simple enough for anyone to run without a technician.