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Ukraine’s tech industry has been one of the in the country. In fact, IT talent is the country’s . As a result, it’s unsurprising that Ukraine is the home to some of the most well-known founders and tech companies in the world today.

As the war in Ukraine intensifies, The Org wanted to draw attention to the impact that Ukrainians have made in the tech community worldwide by highlighting some of the country’s most widely used technologies and growing startups.

The big players

GitLab

Dmitriy Zaporozhets co-founded GitLab, the open-source software project management tool, in 2011. He served as its CTO and later an engineering fellow at the company for 10 years before stepping down. Zaporozhets is still based in Ukraine and has publicly denounced Russia’s invasion of his home country.

WhatsApp

One of the most well-known companies founded by a Ukrainian entrepreneur is WhatsApp. The instant messenger application that is now being used by over people worldwide was founded by Jan Koum, who was born and raised in Kyiv, Ukraine.

PayPal

Max Levchin is one of the founders of well-known payment giant, PayPal. After selling the company to eBay in 2002, Levin co-founded Affirm, a fintech company that helps its users pay in installments. The company went public on January 12 last year and is currently valued at over $24 billion.

Grammarly

Grammarly was born to Ukrainian-Americans Max Lytvyn and Alex Shevchenko in 2009. The application uses AI technology to help its users review their writing style and correct grammar and punctuation. The company has that it will donate $5 million to funds and organizations in support of Ukraine and has suspended services in Russia and Belarus.

Revolut

Revolut, a financial superapp that offers money transfers worldwide, was founded by British-Ukrainian Vlad Yatsenko and Russian-born Nikolay Storonsky. Storonsky made a public announcement on the company’s website and made a that every donation to Red Cross Ukraine will be matched by Revolut.

People.ai

Unicorn enterprise revenue company People.ai has a valuation of , and was founded by Ukrainian-born Oleg Rogynskyy. Rogynskyy has President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for stepping up as a leader in midst of a crisis and during unpredictable times.

“Today, I cried. I cried when my childhood friend, a doctor & entrepreneur, and now a combat medic in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, sent me a selfie from the front lines in Eastern Ukraine. He was smiling in the picture but then he wrote “don’t forget about me. And please find and take care of my daughter once this is over,” Rogynskyy wrote in a on LinkedIn.

Companies headquartered in Ukraine

The Org has compiled a comprehensive list of 50 companies and organizations that are headquartered in Ukraine according to our database. You can find information about them below.

Note this list is meant for informational purposes only.

| Company name | Top position name(s) | Top position role(s) | | ---------- | ---------- | ---------- | | Udrive | Dmitriy Novitskiy and Dmitriy Pustovalov | Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer | | MatcHR | Adriaan Kolff | Co-Founder and CEO | | 8Lab | Alena Fesenko | Founder and CEO | | ELEKS | Andriy Krupa | CEO | | Sigma Software Group | Valery Krasovsky | Co-founder and CEO | Точка опори ЮА | Tymur Levchuk | Executive director | | Kernel | Yevgen Osypov | CEO | | Donetsk National Technical University | Lyashok Yaroslav Alexandrovich | Rector | | Arricano Real Estate | Anna Chubotina | CEO | | Andersen Lab | Alexandr Khomich | Co-Founder and CEO | | FED | Viktor Vasylovych Popov | Chairman of the Board | | Blackthorn Vision | Mykhaylo Terentyak | Founder and CEO | | Ocean.io | Michael Heiberg | CEO, Founder and Board Member | | Creative Quarter | Roman Khmil | CEO | | AURUM Law Firm | Pavel Batishchev | Managing Partner | | Trinetix | Sasha Strozhemin | CEO | | Intellias | Vitaly Sedler and Michael Puzrakov | CEO and COO | | CIENCE | John Girard | CEO | | HighCastle | Philip Millar | CEO | | V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University | Tetyana Kaganovska | President | | MHP | Yuriy Kosyuk | CEO | | Infopulse Ukraine, Ltd. | Andrey Anissimov | Co-Founder and CEO | | SoftServe Business Systems | Stanislav Shaydarov | CEO | | Apiko | Mykola Striletskyi | Co-Founder and CEO | | JEVERA | Anna Tyschenko | CEO | | Quarter Partners | Andriy Semenov, Dmytro Martynenko and Serhii Svystunov | Managing Partner(s) | | RPC Radiy | Ievgenii Bakhmach | Chairman | | Ciklum | Kulraj Smagh | CEO | | Rocket | Aleksey Yukhymchuk | Co-Founder and General Manager | | Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine | Yuliia Svyrydenko | First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy of Ukraine | | Agroton | Iurii Zhuravlov | CEO | | SocialTech | Max Shtepa | Co-founder and CEO | | Cloud9 Solutions | Andrew | CEO | | Developex | Oleksandr Lymar | Founder, Projects Manager and Director | |Smartlands | Ilia Obraztcov | CEO | |FRESHCODE | Vladyslav | Co-Founder and Managing Partner | | Ovostar Union | Borys Bielikov | CEO | | XPLAI | Andrew Karpets | Managing Director | | BSG | Nik Turchin | CEO | | Mindy Support | Martin Elling | Managing Partner | | DMarket | Vlad Panchenko | Founder and CEO | | Dreamscape Networks | Mark Evans | CEO | | Frag Lab | Max Dembick | CEO and Co-Founder | | You are launched | Max Kuznetsov and Ivan Fortuna | Founders | | Jooble | Roman Prokofyev | CEO and Founder | | CyberCraft | Eugene Safronov | CEO and Founder | | ALBO Group | Alex Bolotov | President and CEO | | Adloonix | Vlad Sapozhnykov | Founder and CEO | | Uklon | Dmitry Dubrovskyi | CEO and co-Founder | | Yalantis | Alexander Kholodov | CEO |