{"id":6915,"date":"2021-03-01T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/?page_id=6915"},"modified":"2022-06-17T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T19:47:09","slug":"top-ukrainian-unicorns","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/school-of-startups\/top-ukrainian-unicorns\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ukrainian Unicorns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Unicorns are companies that have reached a valuation of $1 billion or more. Recently, Unicorns have been emerging out of rapidly growing and developing industries such as the IT industry. Most Unicorns are trendsetters in their field, are consumer-oriented, and are targeting the international market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ucluster team compiled a list of Ukrainian Unicorns as of October 2021. We analyzed fast-growing startups and divided them into four groups: Active Unicorns, Future Unicorns, Past Unicorns, and Foreign Unicorns with Ukrainian Roots. Our primary evaluation criteria included the birthplace of the founder, the location of R&amp;D, the last valuation of the startup, and the startup lifecycle stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Startups in our four rankings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Active Unicorns:<\/strong> GitLab, Grammarly, Genesis, People.ai, Firefly Aerospace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Future Unicorns:<\/strong> Monobank, Preply, Restream, Reface, Rozetka, Letyshops, Rocket, Ajax Systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Former Unicorns:<\/strong> Ring, Looksery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Foreign Unicorns with Ukrainian Roots:<\/strong> Affirm, Sila Nanotechnologies, BitFury, Revolut, PandaDoc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0456-\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438 wp-block-embed-\u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0456-\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0438\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"eYlUy9U5P0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/blog\/2022\/04\/investytsijni-trendy-de-startapu-shukaty-groshi\/\">\u0406\u043d\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0446\u0456\u0439\u043d\u0456 \u0442\u0440\u0435\u043d\u0434\u0438: \u0434\u0435 \u0441\u0442\u0430\u0440\u0442\u0430\u043f\u0443 \u0448\u0443\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0438 \u0433\u0440\u043e\u0448\u0456?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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$1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Firefly Aerospace is a provider of economical and dependable launch vehicles, spacecraft, and in-space services for small payloads.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Seed Round (Mar 2014)<br>SK Ventures, Dylan Taylor, Venture Round, $2M (Apr 2014)<br>Various, Seed Round, $463K (Sep 2014)<br>SeedInvest, Tank Stream Ventures, Series A Round, $19.1M (Jun 2016)<br>DADA Holdings, Raven Ventures Australia, XBTO Group\u2026, Series A Round (May 2021)<br>DADA Holdings, Raven Ventures Australia, XBTO Group\u2026, Secondary Market, $100M (May 2021)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Genesis<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gen.tech\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gen.tech\/en\/mainpage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gen.tech<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2008<br><br><strong>$1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Genesis is a portfolio company developing products for the African and Asian markets in digital media, mobile apps, classifieds, and games. They own Jiji.ng, AmoMedia, BetterMe, legit.ng, tuko.co.ke,&nbsp;yen.com.gh&nbsp;and others.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Horizon Capital (2016)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>GitLab<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gitlab.com\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/gitlab.com\/\">gitlab.com<\/a><br>2011<br><br><strong>$11B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">GitLab is a DevOps platform built as a single data warehouse for software development and workflow integration to ensure product quality.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2021\/03\/successful-ukrainian-startups-gitlab-a-modern-devops-toolkit-for-developers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Y Combinator, Seed Round (Mar 2015)<br>Khosla Ventures, 500 Startups, FundersClub\u2026, Seed Round, $1.7M (Jul 2015)<br>Khosla Ventures, Series A Round, $4.5M (Sep 2015)<br>Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator, August Capital&#8230;, Series B Round, $20M (Sep 2016)<br>GV, Telstra Ventures, INKEF Capital\u2026, Series C Round, $20M (Oct 2017)<br>Khosla Ventures, GS Growth, ICONIQ Capital, Series D Round, $110M (Sep 2018)<br>Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures, Y Combinator&#8230;, Series E Round, $268M (Sep 2019)<br>Secondary Market, $195M (Nov 2020)<br>Initial Public Offering, $650M at $11B valuation (Oct 2021)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Grammarly<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/grammarly.com\/\">grammarly.com<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2009<br><br><strong>$2.5B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Grammarly is a service that tracks grammatical and stylistic errors in real-time and tells users how to avoid repeating errors in the future.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2020\/12\/successful-ukrainian-startups-grammarly-an-online-grammar-checker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">General Catalyst, Spark Capital, IVP&#8230;, Venture Round, $110M (May 2017)<br>General Catalyst, IVP, Sozo Ventures, Venture Round, $90M (Oct 2019)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>People.ai<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/people.ai\/\">people.ai<\/a><br>2016<br><br><strong>$1.1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">People.ai is a CRM application that helps companies increase sales by finding examples of successful interactions with customers.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2021\/01\/people-ai-how-to-find-an-investor-at-burning-man-and-raise-sales-by-40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Seed Round, $1M (Jul 2016)<br>Y Combinator, SV Angel, Zillionize\u2026, Seed Round, $2M (Aug 2016)<br>Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator, SV Angel\u2026, Series A Round, $7M (May 2017)<br>Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator&#8230;, Series B Round, $30M (Oct 2018)<br>Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator\u2026, Series C Round, $60M (May 2019)<br>Alexander Rugaev, Secondary Market (Apr 2021)<br>Akkadian Ventures, Mubadala Capital Ventures US,Series D Round, $100M (Aug 2021)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><em><strong>To qualify for this ranking, the startup had to satisfy the following:<\/strong> valuation of more than $1 billion, product orientation (no outsourcers), at least one of the founders was born in Ukraine, number of employees in Ukrainian R&amp;D centers is more than 50% of all engineers.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">????Future Unicorns????<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\"><strong>Company name<br>Website<br>Founded<\/strong><br><strong>Valuation&nbsp;$ Billion<\/strong><\/span><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Product Description<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Financing Rounds<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Ajax Systems<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ajax.systems\/\" target=\"_blank\">ajax.systems<\/a><br>2011<br><br><strong>$0.1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Ajax Systems manufacturs wireless security cameras and systems for the home market.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2020\/12\/ajax-systems-a-professional-wireless-security-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">SMRK VC Fund, Seed Round, $1M (Jun 2015)<br>Horizon Capital, Series A Round, $10M (Mar 2019)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Letyshops<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/letyshops.com\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/letyshops.com\/us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letyshops.com<\/a><br>2014<br><br><strong>$0.1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Letyshops ia an international shopping platform that rewards users for online purchases.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Admitad Invest, Seed Round (Oct 2016)&nbsp;<br>Admitad Invest, Series A, $3M (Jul 2020)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Monobank<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monobank.ua\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">monobank.ua<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2017<br><br><strong>$0.5 &#8211; 1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Monobank is the first internet bank in Ukraine.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Fintech Band, $5M<br>Sergey Tigipko, $4M<br>Universal Bank, $11M<br>iBox Bank<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Preply<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/preply.com\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/preply.com\/\">preply.com<\/a><br>2012<br><br><strong>$0.17B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Preply is a language learning platform that allows for personalized learning driven by data.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2020\/12\/how-top-ukrainian-startups-found-success-the-case-of-preply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Eastlabs, Semyon Dukach, Vostok Ventures&#8230;, Convertible Note (Aug 2012)<br>Techstars, Techstars Berlin Accelerator, Seed Round, $120 K (Jun 2015)<br>Hedgehog Fund, Mariusz Gralewski, Przemyslaw Gacek, Seed Round, $ 1.3 M (Jun 2016)<br>Point Nine, One Way Ventures, RTAventures VC\u2026, Seed Round, $4M (Jul 2018)<br>Point Nine, The Family, Hoxton Venture&#8230;, Series A, $10M (Mar 2020)<br>Inovo Venture Partners, Series A (Jun 2020)<br>Full In Partners, Owl Ventures, Series B, $35M (Mar 2021)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Reface<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hey.reface.ai\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hey.reface.ai\/\">hey.reface.ai<\/a><br>2018<br><br><strong>$0.2B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Reface is an AI-powered app where people can swap faces in videos, GIFs and images in just a few seconds.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Sergey Tokarev, Angel Round (Sep 2018)<br>Sergey Tokarev, Adventures Lab, Pre Seed Round (Dec 2019)<br>Andreessen Horowitz, TQ Ventures, Seed Round, $5.5M (Dec 2020)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Restream<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/restream.io\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/restream.io\/\">restream.io<\/a><br>2014<br><br><strong>&gt; $0.25B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Restream is a multi-streaming solution that allows producers to analyze and interact with their viewers across platforms.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Iskra Ventures, Convertible Note (Jun 2015)<br>International Accelerator, Convertible Note (Feb 2016)<br>Silverton Partners, Kakao Ventures, 7percent Ventures&#8230;, Seed Round, $3.4M (Jan 2018)<br>Insight Partners, Sapphire, Liquid 2 Ventures\u2026, Series A, $50M (Aug 2020)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Rocket<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/rocket.delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\">rocket.delivery<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2018<br><br><strong>$0.1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Rocket is a Ukrainian food delivery service.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Igor Rokhlin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Rozetka<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rozetka-com-ua.translate.goog\/?_x_tr_sl=ru&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=uk&amp;_x_tr_pto=nui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rozetka.ua<\/a><br>2006<br><br><strong>&gt; $0.2B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Rozetka is Ukraine&#8217;s largest e-commerce retailer.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Horizon Capital, Private Equity (May 2016)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><em><strong>To qualify for this ranking, the startup had to satisfy the following:<\/strong> valuation between $100 million and $1 billion, and satisfying other criteria applicable to Active Unicorns.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">????Former Unicorns????<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\"><strong>Company name<br>Website<br>Founded<\/strong><br><strong>Valuation&nbsp;$ Billion<\/strong><\/span><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Product Description<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Exit Event<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Looksery<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong>looksery.com (this webpage is not available)<br>2013<br><br><strong>$0.15B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Looksery is a subsidiary of Snap and provides face tracking and modifying technologies for real-time video. It&#8217;s technology was used to launch Snap Lenses.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company was bought by Snap in 2015 for $150M<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Ring<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ring.com\/\">ring.com<\/a><br>2012<br><br><strong>$1.2B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Ring is a subsidiary of Amazon and manufactures a line of outdoor security doorbells and cameras.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/blog\/2021\/01\/how-top-ukrainian-startups-found-success-ring-a-smart-home-and-security-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ucluster<\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/ring-systema-rozumnogo-domu-domashnoji-bezpeky\/\"> review<\/a><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company was purschased by Amazon for more than a $1 billion in 2018. It still has a large R&amp;D office in Ukraine.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><em><strong>To qualify for this ranking, the startup had to satisfy the following:<\/strong> acquired by another company, and at the time of the acquisition, the startup was an Active or Future Unicorn.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">????Foreign Unicorns with Ukrainian Roots????<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\"><strong>Company name<br>Website<br>Founded<\/strong><br><strong>Valuation&nbsp;$ Billion<\/strong><\/span><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Product Description<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-nv-c-2-color\">Connection to Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><br><br><br><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Affirm<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.affirm.com\/\">affirm.com<\/a><br>2012<br><br><strong>$2.9B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Affirm offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company has a Ukrainian founder (Max Levchin), but no R&amp;D in Ukraine.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>BitFury<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bitfury.com\/\">bitfury.com<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2011<br><br><strong>$1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">BitFury is a blockchain technology company.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company has a large R&amp;D office in Ukraine (estimated to host 80 to 200 employees) but employs the the majority of its workforce (&gt;250 people) elsewhere.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>PandaDoc<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/pandadoc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">pandadoc.com<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2011<br><br><strong>$1B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Provides an all-in-one document workflow automation platform that helps fast scaling teams accelerate the ability to create, manage, and sign digital documents.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company has a large R&amp;D office in Ukraine (estimated to host 145 employees) but employs the the majority of its workforce (&gt;491 people) elsewhere.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Revolut<\/strong><br><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolut.com\/\"><br><\/a><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.revolut.com\/\">revolut.com<\/a><br>2015<br><br><br><strong>$33B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Revolut is a neobank based in the UK.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company has a Ukrainian founder (Vlad Yatsenko), but no R&amp;D in Ukraine.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Sila Nanotechnologies<\/strong><br><strong><br><\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/silanano.com\/\">silanano.com<\/a>&nbsp;<br>2011<br><br><strong>$3.3B<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Sila Nanotechnologies manufactures high energy-density lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Company has a Ukrainian founder (Gene Berdichevsky), but no R&amp;D in Ukraine.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><strong>To qualify for this ranking, the startup had to satisfy the following:<\/strong> startup is considered a Unicorn, but outside of Ukraine (it does not meet all our requirements for Active or Future Unicorns); 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Recently, Unicorns have been emerging out of rapidly growing and developing industries such as the IT industry. Most Unicorns are trendsetters in their field, are consumer-oriented, and are targeting the international market. The Ucluster team compiled a list of Ukrainian Unicorns as&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/school-of-startups\/top-ukrainian-unicorns\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u0414\u0435\u0442\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0456\u0448\u0435 \u00bb<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Top Ukrainian Unicorns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"parent":6910,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"right","neve_meta_container":"contained","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":80,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6915","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgE4Lp-1Nx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6915"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12346,"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6915\/revisions\/12346"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucluster.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}