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Ovul CTO Ihor Kovalenko explained in a conversation with dev.ua why artificial intelligence technologies are becoming the key to the future of women’s health. The startup is developing a hormone tracker that analyzes saliva and accurately determines the level of estrogen, which is critical for women’s health. Ovul has already been recognized by the IT Arena 2025 jury, which included the gadget in the finalists of the startup competition.

34-year-old Kyiv resident Oleg Polishchuk is the CIO of a Ukrainian AI startup in the miltech sector, which creates a product for tracking and shooting down FPV drones. He has actively integrated into the American IT community and, in addition to commercial activities, devotes a lot of time to science. His IT background includes several successful startup projects in the HealthTech and media sectors, and he is currently focused on a miltech startup, for the development of which he even resigned from the position of Head of Engineering in an American company, which he led out of crisis several years ago. Oleg has over 10 scientific publications and experience working in multinational teams. He is a polyglot, speaks four languages, so he knows how to open any door. dev.ua talked to a CIO from overseas and learned a lot of startup insiders that will be useful to every startup owner.

In 2019, something remarkable happened: a Swiss pension fund chose Ukrainian entrepreneur Oleksandr Yatsentyuk and his IT company, Infinity Technologies, to lead a large-scale digital transformation. Under his leadership, the team built one of Switzerland’s first interactive portals for hundreds of thousands of members. Previously, fund clients relied on paper correspondence and waited weeks for appointments. With the new portal, all communication moved online.