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Oleksii Vitchenko

Oleksii Vitchenko is the founder of Digital Future, a Ukrainian-born venture capital firm with clients in the U.S., Israel, Ukraine, and across Europe.

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Oleksii Vitchenko: A call to invest in Ukraine’s tech sector

by Oleksii Vitchenko
I’ve had many talks with investors and foreign entrepreneurs throughout the last year. And the sentiment that I kept hearing was that IT in Ukraine should not be an investment priority because there are more important industries in need of restoration in Ukraine. But that’s precisely the point. Ukrainian tech does not need to be restored. On the contrary, tech is the lifeblood that sustains the bulk of the Ukrainian economy, and it is tech that will take a leading role in the restoration effor