Forbes Ukraine editorial team selected the most promising Ukrainian projects from more than 300 well-known Ukrainian startups.
To be included in the list of the best, a company must have $1 million in annual revenue, raise at least $1 million in investment, or achieve a valuation of more than $3 million. From these projects, a jury of analysts, managers, and investment fund experts selected 25 finalists. Here they are.
- Ahrefs — founder Dmytro Gerasimenko, valuation — $500–700
- AiSDR — founders Yuriy and Oleg Zaremby, valuation $20 million, investment — $3 million
- Awesomic — founders Roman Sevastyanov, Anastasia Pavlyshyna, valuation — $30–50 million, investment — $2.8 million
- BetterMe — founder Viktoriya Repa, investment — $5 million
- Cargofy — founders Stakh Voznyak, Dimitris Alexiou, Oleksandr Kovalchuk, valuation — $32–40 million, investment — $3 million.
- ChoiceQR — founders Volodymyr Olyanitskyi, Oleksiy Ilyash, valuation — $15–20 million, investment — $3.5 million.
- Creatio — founders Kateryna Kostereva, Oleksandr Popov, investment $68 million.
- Datrics — founders Anton Vaisburd, Kyrylo Kirikov, Volodymyr Sofinskyi, valuation — $20–50 million, investment $2.5 million.
- Deus Robotics — founders Pavlo Pikulin, Iryna Legkobyt, valuation — $15 million, investment — $3.6 million.
- DressX — founders Darya Shapovalova, Natalia Modenova, valuation — $50–100 million, investment — $19.2 million.
- Elai.io — founders Vitaliy Romanchenko, Oleksandr Uspensky, Oleksiy Pshenychny, investments — $420,000.
- Esper Bionics — founders Dmytro Gazda, Anna Belevantseva, Igor Ilchenko, investments $3 million according to Forbes.
- Fintech Farm — founders Dmytro Dubilet, Oleksandr Vityaz, Mykola Bezkrovny, valuation — $100–150 million, investments — $35 million.
- GO TO-U — founders Nazar Shimone-Davyda, Olena Artemenko, Lyubov Artemenko, valuation — $30 million, investments — $2.7 million.
- Headway — founder Anton Pavlovsky, investments — $3–5 million.
- Instock — founders Yegor Anchishkin, Viktor Smetanyuk, Mykhailo Smetanyuk, Andriy Shvydky, Vira Tarbaeva, valuation — $20 million, investments — $7.8 million.
- NewHomesMate — founders Sofia Vyshnevska, Bohdan Hnatkovsky, valuation — $30–40 million, investments — $6.7 million.
- Promin Aerospace — founders Vitaliy Yemets, Misha Rudominsky, valuation — $2.5 million, investments — $450,000.
- Promova — founders Andriy Skrypnyk, Valeria Vakulska, Mykhailo Galyan, investments — up to $1 million.
- Rallyware — founders George Elfond, Mykhailo Kostandov, investments $41 million.
- Releaf Paper — founders Valentin Frechka, Oleksandr Sobolenko, valuation — $24 million, investments — $3 million.
- Respeecher — founders Oleksandr Serdyuk, Dmytro Beletsov, Grant Riber, investments — $4 million.
- S.Lab — founders Yulia Byaletska, Yevhen Tomilin, valuation — 5 million euros, investments — 0.7 million euros.
- SOC Prime — founders Oleksandr Bredikhin, Ruslan Mikhalyov, Andriy Bezverkhyi, valuation — $120 million, investments — $11.5 million.
- Zeely — founders Yaroslav Samoiluk, Alina Bondarenko, Dmytro Samoiluk, valuation — $26 million, investments — $2 million.
A Ukrainian company was considered by analysts to be a company in which at least one founder has Ukrainian citizenship and a significant part of the team is in Ukraine.
