SHUT UP & TAKE MY MONEYViacheslav Mayakinfounder & CEO, InnovationBOX

IT ECOSYSTEM of UKRAINE

32 Tech Universities

100 + IT schools

10 IT-HUBs

12 Incubators

5 accelerators

100+ co-workings

5 venture funds

50 + angel investors

2 angels associations

1000+ IT-companies

2000+ startups

Ukraine general VC StatsIT-schools incubators HUBs Co-workings Mln $

VCsfor 2014-

2015

ExitsMln $

For2014-2015

Kyiv 20 5 8 12 12 175

Dnipropetrovsk 12 3 2 6 3 60

Kharkiv 10 1 1 3 1 6

Lviv 12 1 2 8 0,5 2

Odessa 6 1 3 5 8 200

“exits” total for 500 mln dollars

What investors buy?• global market• traction & revenue (sales)• audience (from 1 mln)• technology• opportunity• entrepreneurship• dreams & emotions

What they don’t buy?

• lies & promises

• Ideas and nice products

• “market with no competitors”

• “some monetization”

“Shut up & take my money”

• Entrepreneur skills

• Strong team

• 1bln+ market

• MVP, prototype

• Sales

• or “rocket science”

TRENDS

Start right now

• Virtual reality

• AI

• Fintech

• IoT platform

• Robotics

• Agriculture

Close it if:• Smart home =)• CIS market• No customers adoption• No passion• No success stories nearby

• Missed your market!

Ask yourself about market

1. When I go back and read my original investment thesis, is the market what I thought it was?2. Is the market opportunity what I thought it was?"3. Is the company unable to attain the market share that I thought it would?4. Is there any success stories?

Explore your market every day, check it, feel it!

Where is my money?

Ukrainian investors are greed and lazy?

TRACTION

180incoming requests

70 interviews

8residents

6projects gained investments700 000 $

TOP 100Growing

incubators in Europe

1 year 2 forums50+ workshops and meetups2000+ people engaged

ECOSYSTEM BUILDING

EGAPDnipro

SPACEHUB

NASA ChallengeIoT HUB Dnipro

3 month ago we started…

space incubatorIoT laboratory3D print laboratory

IT-entrepreneurship schoolevent-zonestartup museum

space-hub.com

Questions?