Startup

Pebbles Ai, a British AI startup with an office in Lviv, founded by a former marketing strategist of Google, Cisco, and Walmart, has raised its first major round of investment of $1 million. The Ukrainian IT team is developing AI and a platform for B2B business with AI agents. dev.ua learned why the company chose Ukraine for its technical office, whether it plans to expand its IT team, and what the investments will be spent on.

Viktoriya Yaremchuk, CEO and co-founder of Farsight Vision, has been working in the startup industry for almost 10 years. After the full-scale invasion began, she decided to create a company that would help our soldiers. This is how a device and platform were created that process media files received during drone footage and turn it into a 3D map of the area. This is not the only application of the Ukrainian startup's developments, which can be used in both military and civilian areas. We contacted Victoria Yaremchuk and talked about investments from Estonia, sales in Europe and the USA, why the startup needs a VR version and how she sees the future of the company.

Leonid Shevtsov, a software architect from the product company Railsware, created a stochastic time tracker that helps you track your time and maintain a balance between household chores, work, and other activities throughout the day.

This year’s largest technology exhibition, CES 2025, which took place on January 7–10 in Las Vegas, was attended by 18 Ukrainian companies. In the second pavilion, startups from Profeed, which are developing an IT system that manages the feeding of cows, pigs, and chickens on a livestock farm, presented their solution. And although the exhibition is not specialized for agribusiness, the founder of the project, Serhiy Ryzhkov, said that the startups met many representatives of real livestock farming from different countries there. The agricultural sector is also not a core area for dev.ua materials, but we became very interested in how automation can be used to set up an almost animal restaurant. The founder of the business, Serhiy Ryzhkov, spoke about this, as well as how the startup developed, how much it managed to achieve, and what markets they plan to conquer.

On January 15, Ukrainian startup LetsData, which uses AI tools to detect potential information attacks, announced that it had raised a funding round of about $1.6 million from a number of institutional venture funds and angel investors. According to co-founder Andriy Kusy, the funds will be directed both to technology development and to sales and marketing, in order to try to maintain the current growth rate of 300% and into 2025.