Startup

Ukrainian startup ITFin has created a unified system for managing finances, processes, and resources for IT companies. The platform automates everything from time tracking and HR to invoicing and management reporting, helping to curb chaos and increase business efficiency. The service is already used by over 4,500 professionals in 17 countries.

Viacheslav Vodopsanov has been in IT for about 6 years. For the past year and a half, the developer has focused on his own project — Meal for Deal. According to the IT professional, this is not just a mobile application, but an environmental initiative that helps reduce food waste and save money.

Ukrainian insurtech startup FortuneGuard, together with Lloyd’s of London, has launched Ukraine’s first war risk insurance program for businesses. The project uses artificial intelligence to assess military and political threats and offers clients an indicative rate for insuring facilities in a war zone in just a few minutes.

Ukrainian startup Knowledgator has created a platform that extracts structure from unstructured data: from scientific articles, financial reports, logs, or even legal documents. It is already used by large pharmaceutical companies, banks, and technology startups.

Ukrainian IT companies have been complaining for several years about the difficulties in attracting customers due to the war. Customers are taking into account military risks and the possibility of uninterrupted work. Artificial intelligence is also gradually replacing entire teams from the market. Understanding this problem, developers with over 15 years of experience, Kyrylo Kozak and Vitaliy Drozhdin, have found a solution that helps companies find customers. They created the Getmany AI assistant, which automates the routine of searching for projects and significantly saves IT teams time, increasing their overall productivity. Currently, it is already used by Kyivstar and another one and a half hundred agencies that provide services on the Upwork platform. dev.ua tells how the Getmany service works, which the founders call AI-Copilot for Upwork.

Olga Grabovska is a web designer with a keen marketing sense who turned personal frustration on her birthday into a full-fledged startup. Using her own money and without investors, she created the mobile application Bazhay!. In a conversation with dev.ua, Olga spoke about the wishes and gifts service, which already has its first advertisers and ambitions to enter the global market.

Full Stack Developer Volodymyr Dehtiarev from Kharkiv, having experience in web development, decided to try to create his first mobile application. Artificial intelligence helped to implement the idea that was born over a cup of morning coffee, which significantly accelerated development and saved money. We tell you how iWonda was created (from the idea to the fight with the App Store for release), where all the content is generated by AI.

Ukrainian financial institutions — banks, MFIs, insurance and leasing companies, payment transaction providers — are now forced to meet the requirements of the NBU on financial monitoring, sanctions, and compliance. Manual verification of clients and generation of reports take up dozens of hours of specialists' time and company resources every day, and increase the likelihood of errors and fines. With recent changes in legislation, financial monitoring in Ukraine has turned from an «option for banks» into a mandatory procedure for a much wider range of businesses. Now, not only financial institutions are subject to the requirements, but also accountants, auditors, notaries, bar associations, lottery organizers, and others. Ignoring the new rules is too risky: fines for violations can reach tens of millions of hryvnias. So Ukrainian business has found itself facing a new reality — in which automated solutions are indispensable. Fintech company Finpay and leasing company Winner Leasing know how to avoid unnecessary costs and determine 100% compliance with the NBU criteria. Thanks to the use of the AML.point service, created by the Ukrainian IT company AI FINTECH, these businesses built all financial monitoring processes on a turnkey basis. This made it possible to significantly reduce the time and costs of resources and personnel required to perform customer identification and procedures aimed at preventing money laundering and terrorist financing. dev.ua talked to the CEO of the AML.point startup, Oksana Gubina, and learned how the service works, which helps avoid penalties and save money and business reputation.

Every day, news feeds are full of headlines about new startups. One after another, big announcements appear — a new project, a new name, a new ambitious vision. But very little time passes — and most of them are no longer heard from. They disappear from the radar before they have time to really make a statement.