VRTX

25/01/2022

Techiia holding supported the first trip of the Ukrainian delegation to the international technology conference South by Southwest (SXSW 2022) in Texas.

Today, the jury, with the Chief Innovations Officer of the holding Oleksander Davydenko as one of its members, picked 6 startups to represent Ukraine at the conference.

The holding company supported the initiative so that young technology companies could compete for investment and bring products to the global market.

We wish success to Ukrainian startups in the USA!

🔗 Read more by the link: https://go.techiia.com/IzY0X

31/12/2021

20/12/2021

Huge congrats to the winning teams of this year's last YEP!Starter Demo Day in partnership with Techiia holding:

🏆 First place — EdKidu, who won €2000 certificate
🏆 Second place — HealthHelper, who won €1000 certificate

🏆 Both the winners and the Univera team won $5000 Amazon Web Services certificates, as well as other prizes from partners.

Winners were picked up by the jury of experts, including TECHIIA’s Chief Innovations Officer Oleksander Davydenko.

We wish all the teams to successfully develop their startups!

09/12/2021

How does the founder, who has spent 7 months developing a product, but no one needed it feel? What is the obvious problem that has hindered a promising startup? And what is the main question each VRTX venture studio project now starts with?

Techiia holding Chief Innovations Officer Oleksander Davydenko shared his experience at Fu**UP Night from EASE.

📺 Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nXphmF5B40I

**upnight

18/11/2021

Ever wondered why venture studios are a real chance for a startup to build a successful business?

The Managing Director of VRTX Venture Lab and Techiia holding Chief Innovations Officer Oleksander Davydenko shared the advantages and specifics of venture studios with participants of the YEP! Starter incubation program.

In his lecture he revealed:

🔸 the life cycle of a startup
🔸 how a venture studio operate
🔸 how to assess the idea viability
🔸 how VRTX chooses startups and how much it invests in them
🔸 what the startup receives from the venture studio
🔸 what is really valuable in a startup

We are grateful to participants from Ukraine and Moldova, as well as the YEP team for adding more boost to the startup ecosystem!

11/11/2021

Eight months of developing three applications. A team working non-stop. Costs in the tens of thousands of dollars. A startup that was supposed to revolutionize marketing in retail.

But one day it all turned to dust.

Oleksander Davydenko, Techiia holding Chief Innovations Officer, told this story from the long past at Fu**up Nights. It’s due to this story he knows that before diving into development, you need to deeply study the market and future customers. Customer Development is a must.

Today, the VRTX Venture Lab studio, headed by Oleksander, does not start a project without answering the questions such as:

👉 WHO really needs the product?
👉 HOW MUCH and WHEN are your customers are willing to pay for it?
👉 HOW does it integrate into the customer's decision-making chain?

It is difficult to learn from other people's mistakes. But what if you manage? ;)

We are grateful to EASE for organizing this event and to the ones who share the stage with us Yurii Filipchuk and Valerii Krasko for the experience.

🔗 https://go.techiia.com/xLfHr

01/11/2021

Learning from your mistakes is frustrating, and sometimes very expensive. But they often give the most valuable experience and define the right direction for business growth.

On November 5, IT Fu**up Night by EASE will take place, where the Managing Director of the VRTX venture studio Oleksander Davydenko will speak about barely the most costly fu**up and why projects should start with Customer Development.

💡 Learn from other people's mistakes by the link: https://go.techiia.com/8o6aD

21/10/2021

Already this Sunday, October 24, students from Odessa universities will pitch their online education and business projects on the Young Heck. Odessa Edition hackathon.

Oleksander Davydenko, Chief Innovations Officer at Techiia holding, will share his experience with the participants and choose the best ones as part of the jury.

Follow this event on EASE 🚀

20/10/2021

❌ "Can’t tell you this due to the NDA."
❌ "Our market is $100500 billion and everyone on this planet."
❌ "Our startup has no competitors."
❌ "We have other jobs, and we work on our project in our own free time."

These are the startup makers’ phrases during the pitch, that instantly kill all the interest of any investor.

Oleksander Davydenko, the Chief Innovations Officer of our holding and the Managing Director VRTX Venture Lab, revealed these phrases to the young startup teams. During the ReBootcamp intensive, he explained what the investor actually hears in these phrases and how it will help change the project for the better.

And here are the phrases that, according to Oleksander and our venture studio experience, draws investors’ attention:

✅ "We worked for 5-10 years in the field of X in the managing positions, but the corporation did not allow us to create and use our product internally."
✅ "We already have 5-10 customers from a wide niche who pay."
✅ "We were creating another product, but the money started coming from a new direction, and we need resources to scale."

Most likely, such a team has industry competencies and understands what product can meet customer needs. Or the team already has such a product and financial support is needed for its growth.

We are grateful to ReBootcamp for the invitation. We are glad to share our experience with the teams that will soon join the list of Ukrainian startups.

29/09/2021

What will the world be like in 10 years? MTI Group Innovation Campus invites everyone to the discussion on the development of medicine, transport, financial services, the entertainment industry, the evolution of consumer demands.

The near future was discussed by:

📍 Oleksander Davydenko, the Managing Director of VRTX Venture Lab, Chief Innovations Officer
📍 Dominique Piotet, UNIT.City CEO
📍 Sergii Badritdinov, INTERTOP Ukraine CEO

Here are some conclusions from the discussion:

👉 instant mobile phone diagnostics is the future
👉 we will feel emotions from sports events in new (and not yet obvious) ways
👉 the richest person will be the one who will solve the problem of traffic jams in Kyiv

03/09/2021

90% of startups fail. 20% of projects are usually being closed in the first year, 30% in the next one. By the end of the fifth year, 50% of projects cease to exist and 70% by the end of the tenth.

This is because young entrepreneurs do not yet know how to make it in an aggressive business environment, and not everyone can afford to put a startup on its feet and recoup the investment.

VRTX Lab Managing Director Oleksander Davydenko shares his analysis of the main mistakes of such failures in his article on AIN.UA: https://go.techiia.com/0lADm

05/07/2021

30 червня відбувся довгоочікуваний YEP!Starter Demo Day, одним із членів журі якого став Олександр Давиденко, Managing Director VRTX Venture Lab, Chief Innovations Officer.

YEP — це мережа академічних стартап-інкубаторів, партнером якої став холдинг TECHIIA. Завдяки YEP! молоді стартапи спробували себе у підприємництві і запустили проєкт за 3 місяці.

Вітаємо переможців і команди, які взяли участь у заході та отримали цінний досвід. Бажаємо ще більше успіхів у майбутньому!