“Today, Kyiv has been attacked all day long,” says Oleksandr Kosovan, the founder and CEO of Mac software utilities maker MacPaw. “The war is here, and it’s real. Right now, we answer these questions under the sounds of sirens calling people to hide in the nearest bomb shelters.”
Some have relocated employees where possible, with companies moving staff to safer regions of Ukraine in the west where there have, so far, been few battles.
Many of the tech companies and startups in Ukraine have international connections: either investors or parent companies or subsidiaries. California-headquartered Delfast Bikes, an e-bike manufacturer, has 40 employees in the capital city of Kyiv, which has been under“We do our best to make them safe,” says CEO Daniel Tonkopi. “We donate now 5% of all of our income to Ukrainian organizations to help stop the invasion.”Some are literally working out of bomb shelters.
It helps that many globally as well as in Ukraine have been working remotely and in home offices for several years of global pandemic now.
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