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January 21, 2019

Insider view: Kiev’s developer stronghold

The Ukrainian revolution of 2014 threw a spanner in the works for Kiev’s growing startup community, but now the city’s startups are getting back to business.


Amy Lewin

7 min read

Regina Overchyk has been involved with Kiev’s startup scene since 2012. She is one of the organisers of Silicon Drinkabout Kiev, and an acceleration manager for global startup network Seedstars. She used to run Ukraine’s only angel investor network, UAngel.

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