UForce is first Ukrainian defence tech unicorn
5 March 2026
UForce is the world's leading designer and manufacturer of naval drones for military use. After operating in stealth mode it has now raised $50M from Lakestar, Shield Capital and Ballistic Ventures. Hype invested in 2025.
Hype invests in financial platform Fuel Finance
28 February 2025
Founded by Alyona Mysko with support from co-founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk, Fuel Finance has built a financial platform managing $500M+ in customer revenue, combining AI, data, dashboards, forecasting and human expertise.
Hype backs security-focused Freedom Fund
2025-09-30
Freedom Fund invests in field-proven solutions that strengthen resilience and security, including unmanned vehicles, robotics, communications, sensors, components and AI-powered autonomous systems.
Stridar selected as xTechOverwatch finalist
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
5 July 2025
Stridar has been selected as a finalist in the 2025 U.S. Army xTechOverwatch competition with its Siderunner, an autonomous UGV with modular integration combat-tested in Ukraine. Hype invested in Stridar in 2025.
Hype invests in Respeecher
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
November 2024
Respeecher is a leader in AI voice generation for Hollywood movies, with clients such as Disney, Universal and SONY. Examples include doing young Luke Skywalker's voice and perfecting the Hungarian pronunciation in the “The Brutalist”.
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
Hype backs Ukrainian edtech leader Beetroot Academy
2023-10-29
Beetroot Academy offers training programs proven with mid-size and enterprise companies, giving teams shared knowledge, common language, and practical tools for real transformation. Beetroot Academy has trained 10,000+ program participants in Ukraine.
Hype is first investor in drone startup Highcat
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
2023-04-30
Highcat is building cost-effective drones in various classes and offers a fully integrated ecosystem of hardware, software and services with production in Europe.
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
2023-01-15
With its flagship program, the Pareto MBA, Pareto Business School disrupts traditional business education. The Pareto MBA teaches best practice in strategy, finance, leadership and competitive positioning in an applied way.
Hype invests in software developer Beetroot
Hype backs edtech disruptor Pareto Business School
Hype invests in software developer Beetroot
2022-09-30
Beetroot was founded in 2012 by Andreas Flodström and Gustav Henman, growing to an international tech ecosystem with 400+ people worldwide, including R&D offices across Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland and Vietnam. Beetroot is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
Awesomic.io raises $2M round after record growth
15 December 2021
Hype Ventures portfolio company Awesomic.io has closed a $2M seed round with participation from a number of leading investors. Awesomic finished Y Combinator in summer 2021 and have grown 11x in 11 months so far during 2021.
Hype Ventures makes follow-up investment in Legal Nodes
7 September 2021
Hype Ventures has made a follow-up investment as part of Legal Nodes's $300,000 pre-seed round. The startup, founded by Margarita Sivakova, Nestor Dubnevych, and Maxim Maliuk, has also been accepted to Techstars London with an additional $120,000 raised.
Let's Enhance raises $3M with participation from Hype
12 August 2021
Hype Ventures is participating in the $3M seed round raised by Let's Enhance, an AI-based image processing platform founded in 2018 by Sofi Shvets and Vlad Pranskevičius. Hype first invested in Let's Enhance in 2019.
YouScan.io named Best Social Media Monitoring Software
YouScan.io named Best Social Media Monitoring Software
9 August 2021
Hype Ventures portfolio company YouScan.io has been named Best Social Media Monitoring Software. YouScan helps businesses listen to customers in social media and has over 600 clients, including leading brands such as Nestle, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, L'Oréal and Google.
Hype invests in Cotano.me
YouScan.io named Best Social Media Monitoring Software
Hype Ventures invests in Datrics pre-seed round
5 October 2020
Hype Ventures invests $50,000 in Cotano.me, a user-centric sales automation platform with advanced analytics.
Hype Ventures invests in Datrics pre-seed round
YouScan.io named Best Social Media Monitoring Software
Hype Ventures invests in Datrics pre-seed round
12 August 2020
Hype Ventures is investing an undisclosed amount in Datrics.ai, a no-code platform for analytics and machine learning founded by Anton Vaisburd, Volodymyr Sofinskyi and Kirill Kirikov.
Hype invests in Awesomic's pre-seed round
15 July 2020
Hype Ventures is part of a small group of investors who are making the first investment into Awesomic, an online virtual designer subscription service. Awesomic was founded by Roman Sevastyanov and Stacy Pavlyshyna.
Hype Ventures joins $8.25M round B in Allset
19 June 2020
Allset is an innovative US takeout and dining app founded by Ukrainians Stas Matviyenko and Anna Polishchuk. This $8.25 million Series B round has participation from EBRD, Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft and others, in addition to Hype Ventures.
Hype Ventures invests $50k in Legal Nodes
Hype Ventures backs pet insurance leader SPOKK
12 February 2020
Hype Ventures becomes the first investor in Legal Nodes, a startup that aims to disrupt the traditional bill-by the-hour legal industry. The picture was taken after a handshake agreement in Silicon Valley at the Startup Grind conference.
Hype Ventures backs pet insurance leader SPOKK
Hype Ventures backs pet insurance leader SPOKK
Hype Ventures backs pet insurance leader SPOKK
3 January 2020
Hype Ventures becomes the first investor in SPOKK, a next-generation pet insurance startup founded and run by insurance industry veteran Alexandra Gladyshevskaya.