UVCA shapes the future direction of the venture capital and private equity industry in Ukraine by promoting its investment opportunities, advocating the interests of private equity investors to policymakers, and improving the local investment and business climate.
The final selection of startups to represent Ukraine at CES 2020 took place on 17th of October at iHUB. Six companies, who will go to Las Vegas, were selected by a team of Ukrainian and foreign experts and investors. The exhibition will be held on January 7-10, 2020 in Las Vegas.
On October 22, the Angel Investing Day organized by UVCA with the support of ESIL took place. At the invitation of the Association, Brigitte Baumann, the founder of an investment company GoBeyond operating in France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland, European Angel Investor of the Year, with 20 years of experience in bringing new technologies to the market in the United States and Europe, visited Kyiv.
On September 2, a lecture by a member of the Supervisory Board of the Ukrainian Venture and Private Equity Association, Managing Partner at GS Capita, and author of the best-selling book Accelerated Startup Vitaly G. Golomb was held at the 1991 Civic Tech Center. The main topic of the meeting was the future of the automotive industry.
On September 4, Prime Minister Oleksiy Goncharuk and Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov met with representatives of the IT industry.
This year UA TECH is a joint initiative of the Ukrainian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (UVCA) and CRDF Global.
June 26, UVCA and Embassy of Switzerland in Ukraine gathered together for the invitation-only breakfast with Swiss experts, representatives of the government (NBU, NSSMC), investors and fintech companies to talk about the cryptocurrency regulation, best practices from Switzerland, Ukrainian reality & needs as well as various views and approaches.