Nowadays, culture is developing very intensively, many inventions are being made, and many innovative ideas are emerging. Ukrainians are also not lagging behind in this process. Today, there are already more than one business project that grew up in Ukraine and went “into the people” abroad, successfully conquering the market of the whole world. Today, we will talk about several such ideas
Grammarly
This service is not as well known at home as it is abroad, but it has found its audience and fans there. It was created in 2007 by two Kyiv residents – Oleksiy Shevchenko and Maksym Lytvyn.
What is this project? This is software that tracks grammatical and syntactic errors in English text, also searches for and corrects incorrect expressions, and immediately gives an explanation of the error, which also allows you to learn. The errors that this program works with are not found by Microsoft Word or other services that work with grammar. In addition, the service also checks for plagiarism. You can use it both online and install the application in Microsoft Word.
The project is in great demand among many supporters from different countries of the world, there are already more than 10 million of them. More than 700 contracts have already been signed with the world's leading companies and universities.
DepositPhotos
This service is an international photo bank that acts as an intermediary between those who sell and those who want to buy high-quality photos, videos and vector images. It was founded in 2009 by Dmitry Sergeyev, and after three years the company had an income of over $ 6 million, and its value grew to a rather large figure of $ 100 million. Today the project is one of the five best photo banks in the world. It is used in 192 countries, it supports about 20 languages.
Looksery selfie enhancer
The headquarters of this project is located in San Francisco, and its birthplace is Odesa. It improves videos and photos through filters in real time, and not when the picture itself has already been taken and recorded. This distinguishes it from the very popular Instagram today. Odessa residents have already signed the first licensing agreement (B2B) for this unique technology, the partner is a media holding from Asia. Under this agreement, the total payment will be equal to 5 million dollars.
Augmented Pixels
The project develops augmented reality technologies, and today it has already spread to the global market and gained its supporters. Its clients are well-known companies. This project developed an application that is used by National Geographic. Californian investors and funds have favorably reacted to the project and invested their funds in it.
Petcube pet robot
Ukrainian developers do not ignore animals in their ideas - this service is a confirmation of this attitude. Now they have their own robot for entertainment, which also takes care of animals. It is very easy to control, you just need to download an application for your smartphone. Then you can follow the animals and communicate with them, watching a small cube made of aluminum, with Wi-Fi, a camera, a speaker, a microphone, it also has a low-power red laser. It plays with your pet when you are not at home.
Coursmos
An educational startup was founded in 2013. Its parents are Roman Kistochka and Pavlo Dmitriev. The project offers those interested a platform for conducting online courses, most of which are free. The duration of such video lessons is short - 3 minutes each. You can record them yourself and post them on the portal.
In 2015, the company received $600,000 in development funding. Today, the service is used by 900,000 students and over 7,000 teachers. The project is one of the largest educational platforms in the world, considering the number and variety of all online courses.
LaMetric Smart Watch
This watch was developed by Lviv residents. It not only tells the time, which is typical of watches, but also the temperature, but more importantly, it provides business analytics. Today, this crowdfunding project from Ukraine is very successful and has raised $370,000, although it only asked for $69,000. The watch is manufactured by one of the famous Chinese factories, Foxconn, which also manufactures iPods and iPhones.
YouScan
A system created for monitoring basic social media. It tracks mentions of your brand or product on social networks, blogs, and forums across the analytics world. More than 400 brands, including some very well-known ones, use this system today. The startup itself started in 2009 in Kyiv.
Ecoism
You can calculate the electricity consumption in your home using a smart energy saving system. It will help you track when each electrical appliance in your home is turned on and off, how long it works, and how much electricity it consumes. The program will analyze how efficiently resources are used, how you can optimize electricity costs. It will also remind you if you left the iron turned off or forgot to close the refrigerator. The project was born in 2015, and the program's sensor is suitable for electrical networks in both the USA and any European country. And of course, it works in homes in our country.
Сlicky
Another project is an international advertising platform designed to monetize mobile applications and attract new users. Today, it is the largest mobile marketing platform for Eastern Europe. The founder of the company is Vadim Rogovsky, a resident of Odessa. The project was launched in 2010. One of the most famous clients of the project was the online marketplace Alibaba, many users of the service are located in the USA, China, and Israel.
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