Ukrainian Startup Fund

USF originally set up to promote the development of the local startup ecosystem and today is the largest local angel investor with already 130 funded startups and the most extensive startups database and stakeholders (over 3,000 applications).

Pavlo Kartashov

Director

Past deals in Education

iPlayARt

Grant in 2024
iPlayARt is an augmented reality application designed for learning to play musical instruments.

Proste ZNO

Grant in 2024
Proste ZNO is a Ukrainian educational technology company that specializes in preparing students for the ZNO/NMT, a crucial university entrance exam. The company's platform employs algorithms, high-quality study materials, and expert guidance to enhance students' chances of success and secure admission to their preferred universities.

Nanit Robot

Grant in 2024
Nanit Robot is an educational technology company that specializes in STEM learning. It offers a comprehensive robotics education program for children aged 5 to 13, combining hands-on learning with a structured curriculum. The program revolves around the Nanit Robot KIT, a set of 12 sensors and a main block that can be assembled into over 30 different robot configurations. As students progress through the program, they explore physics, environmental science, and programming languages like Scratch and C++. The company provides personalized learning plans and ongoing support to help students develop a strong foundation in robotics and electronics.

Qela App

Grant in 2022
Qela uses gamification to enhance community building, making it easier to manage, educate, and retain volunteers and donors.

ClinCaseQuest

Grant in 2022
ClinCaseQuest is a technology company specializing in medical education. It develops a simulation training platform designed to enhance the quality of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. The platform features clinical case simulators with interactive scenarios, evidence-based treatment guidelines, diagnostic tools, and gamified learning elements. This enables medical students and professionals to acquire practical experience, bridge the theory-practice gap, and hone their clinical decision-making skills in a safe, patient-free environment.

Advicera

Grant in 2021
Advicera specializes in providing consulting services and eLearning solutions, focusing on post-war reconstruction for companies in the Nordics. With a team of experts, Advicera offers tools and software designed to enhance control and oversight in educational and program management contexts. The company, established in 2021 and based in Helsinki, Finland, employs a small team dedicated to delivering tailored consulting services across business consulting and services industries. Advicera's commitment to supporting organizations through strategic advice and innovative eLearning platforms marks its contribution to professional development and organizational growth.

NextGeneration

Grant in 2021
NextGeneration offers children Virtual or in-Home After-School programs.

Amperia

Grant in 2021
Amperia is a manufacturer of educational equipment, software and interactive textbooks.

Craftit.online

Grant in 2021
Craftit.online provides licensed instructions, materials and tools for handcraft to develop fine motor skills and creativity of a child

Connect 21

Grant in 2021
Connect 21 is an online therapy group platform to purchase special courses to improve the skills for psychologists and psychiatrists

Mathema.me

Grant in 2021
Mathema online school is the most efficient method of learning school mathematics online.

StudyDive

Grant in 2021
StudyDive is an online platform that provides both free and paid webinars and courses across a variety of subjects, including business, technology, psychology, and the arts. By offering live educational events, StudyDive enables individuals to easily search for and book both online and offline learning opportunities. The platform is designed to streamline the Learning and Development process for companies, significantly reducing the time spent managing employee training. Through its comprehensive offerings, StudyDive aims to enhance the educational experiences of users while catering to the diverse learning needs of professionals.

Workee

Grant in 2021
Workee provides a platform for private tutors and freelancers to create a personal website with built-in booking, scheduling, payments, and client management. The service supports online booking, billing, a client portal, and AI-driven business insights, enabling independent practitioners and small service-based businesses to manage appointments, sell services, automate administrative tasks, integrate analytics, and optimize client interactions through a unified web interface.

Noplag

Grant in 2021
Noplag is a New York-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing and marketing an online plagiarism checker tool. The platform caters to a diverse range of users, including writers, students, educators, businesses, and website owners. Noplag offers various versions tailored for individual use, educational institutions, and corporate environments, allowing for the management of writing tasks, collaboration among employees, and analysis of documents for potential plagiarism. The tool supports multiple file formats and enables users to create personalized libraries while providing valuable statistics and reports. It also facilitates content protection for website owners, with features such as automatic monitoring and similarity detection. Noplag's comprehensive solutions aim to uphold academic integrity and enhance the writing process across different sectors.

Clasee

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Clasee is an educational platform designed to create a knowledge universe centered around the sharing of short videos. It leverages artificial intelligence to guide users through a personalized learning journey, tailoring content to individual search requests. By connecting creators and learners around specific knowledge topics, Clasee fosters the development of communities that co-create and share new insights. The platform also promotes an internal economy that rewards both creators and learners, emphasizing high-quality educational content and community engagement. Through its innovative approach, Clasee aims to enhance the learning experience by making it more flexible and adaptive.

Casers

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Casers is a web platform that enables solving real-world business and government cases through interactive simulations and case competitions. The platform helps companies engage with universities, organize real-life case competitions and online hackathons, and support case study learning for both synchronous and asynchronous participants worldwide.

SmartReader

Grant in 2021
SmartReader improves children's reading technique and memory recall for better comprehension.

Erudito

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Erudito is a learning platform for primary school kids that provides ready-to-use content for teachers and tasks for students. The company's product has a convenient LMS for teachers, native apps for kids, and bots for parents who wish to monitor their progress.

Mate Academy

Seed Round in 2020
Mate Academy is an educational technology startup founded in 2015 and based in Kyiv, Ukraine. The institution focuses on teaching individuals to code from scratch, providing comprehensive online training in various programming languages. It offers its services entirely free of charge until students secure employment. This model allows aspiring programmers to access high-quality educational content and build their careers in technology without financial constraints. With a commitment to fostering talent globally, Mate Academy aims to equip learners with the skills needed to succeed in the tech industry through real-time instruction from experienced educators.

ChoiZY

Seed Round in 2020
ChoiZY is a future of Career guidance for school children to decide on a future profession, students to choose a career, young professionals to change a job. With the help of AI ChoiZY identifies personal interests, helps to discover careers (428 professions!), identifies person’s soft skills, helps to improve hard skills and assists in getting person’s desired job! We don’t provide you with a basic career sphere, we help you to understand, which is your desired job!

GIOS - Global Innovative Online School

Seed Round in 2020
GIOS - Global Innovative Online School is an educational platform focused on remote and blended learning, particularly in mathematics and critical thinking. It offers an interactive environment that engages children in the educational process through animated courses presented in simple language and a game-like format, making complex topics easier to understand. For educators, GIOS provides essential tools for remote teaching, including a flexible course builder, an interactive material library, and comprehensive assessment and analytics features. The company's mission is to transform the educational landscape by offering an affordable and modern approach to teaching millions of schoolchildren worldwide.
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