On November 25, 2023, the International Investment Forum for Innovation IMVESTinUA was held at the Intercontinental Kyiv Hotel (one of the safest places today).
We, with partners ISE ACCELERATOR, GO STRATEGY OF THE FUTURE, GO DIGITAL EDUCATION, have been preparing this event for over 2 months to hold it at a high level!
Thanks to cooperation with the MFA of UKRAINE, all Ukrainian diplomatic institutions in the world were involved. Thanks to cooperation with the National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, we were able to spread information and invite international business and investors to join the event and support Ukrainian innovations.
We managed to attract more than 20 partner organizations that provided informational support.
And the event itself became possible thanks to the co-financing of donor organizations within the framework of the international cooperation project ReACT4UA (“Application and implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine in the sphere of trade”) with funding from the German government. The project is implemented by the German federal company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH together with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Ukraine.
The event was organized in an unusual rich interactive bilingual format (sign translation was available in English and Ukrainian for everyone), three diverse panel discussions were combined with fruitful networking over coffee and a delicious lunch from the restaurant of the Intercontinental Hotel.
And the “icing on the cake” was the pitch of 9 cool startups that were selected by an independent jury. Among them were members of the Association of Startups!
Pitch winners:
First place – S-Lab, second – GIOS, third – ZEEON, according to the decision of the members of the board of the Association – receive consulting services (with a total value of up to 2000 euros), namely assistance in submitting applications for the EIC ACCELERATOR, opportunities presented by the head of the ESMA division, European Commission, Andreas Limberis, Head of Sector of the European Innovation Council and Executive Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises (EISMEA) Established by the European Commission on the forum.
All other participants of the pitch receive an annual membership fee according to the “Individual approach” package (worth 300 euros)
Guests of the event:
Jaco Silje, Permanent Representative of UNDP in Ukraine.
Heorhiy Dubinskyi, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Maria Shevchuk, Executive Director of IT Ukraine Association, Ukraine.
Serhiy Tsivkach, Executive Director of UkraineInvest Government Office for Attracting and Supporting Investments, Ukraine.
Andrii Nosok, Managing Director of Dragon capital, direction – direct investments.
Taras Golub, Advisor to the Vice Prime Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine, Ukraine.
Andriy Dligach, Founder of the Advanter Group and the international Board business community, co-founder of the Center for Economic Recovery.
Hennadiy Chyzhikov, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ukraine.
Olena Orliuk, Director of the Ukrainian National Office of Intellectual Property and Innovation.
Emmanuel Lowe, Swiss family office by Multi Family, based in the USA ad Luxembourg, investing in Green and Deep Tech, AI, CyberTech, SportTech, Switzerland-Ukraine.
Lukash Vavak, Polish Ukrainian Startup Bridge, Poland.
Maxim Prokhorov, CEO & Co-Founder at PLATMA, Founder Platma.Academy, Ukraine.
Artem Volkhonskyi, Founding Partner at ZAS Venture, Ukraine.
Daria Yanieva, Investment Director at Sigma Software, Ukraine.
Anna Gladshtein, Head of International Trade and European Integration, E-Commerce and Economic Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs, Representative of the USAID Competitive Economy of Ukraine Program, Ukraine
Larysa Samosyonok, Business Services Development Analyst for MSMEs, UNDP, Ukraine
Tetyana Anishchuk, Deputy Director of the program, head of the SME development component in territorial communities, international cooperation program “Application and implementation of the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine in the field of trade / EU4Business: recovery, competitiveness and internationalization of SMEs”, the German federal company Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Oksana Berezhna, Head of the Expert Group on Innovation Development of the Science and Innovation Directorate of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, candidate of legal sciences, national coordinator of COST in Ukraine.
Ihor Taranov, Head of the Horizon Europe Office in Ukraine, National Research Fund of Ukraine
We would like to thank the moderators: Olena Malytskyi and Volodymyr Kulchytskyi for the professional conduct of the event, light and pleasant atmosphere.
You can see how everything went in detail photo and video.
We will gladly organize such events again, so write your wishes and feedback via the link.
