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PromoRepublic is Expanding to San Francisco

We are happy to announce that PromoRepublic is expanding to San Francisco in February 2017. The company just signed a membership agreement with SaaStr CSS/CoSelling Space and is going to work in cooperation with other SaaS companies to sell and scale together.

SaaStr CSS/CoSelling Space is San-Francisco startup community, where post-revenue SaaS start-ups work and learn to scale together. PromoRepublic is planning to continue its further extensive development on the US market.

PromoRepublic is a social media marketing platform for everyday use that helps small business owners gain more customers from social networks. The platform guides and automates effective social media marketing for small business owners. Combining the ease of use, co-marketing channels, technology-based content suggestions and templates, PromoRepublic provides an affordable service for first-time marketers and pros alike. In July 2016 PromoRepublic received €500 000 from Ukrainian and Finnish investors, including Digital Future. The startup was founded in Kiev in 2013 by a serial entrepreneur Valeriy Grabko.

SaaS Hackathon of Digital Future

On the 18th – 20th of November the fifth Hackathon of digital Future took place in order to power up new innovations in SaaS-based technologies. Once again the participants demonstrated the enormous potential for the entrepreneurship. 14 teams, consisting of young professionals, worked on developing remarkable SaaS startup ideas. The winner is Image NC team with its smart tool to manage image and video, or more precisely for getting fast SVG formatting.

Hackathon served as a platform for young entrepreneurs to gain experience of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas and developing the growth plan for a commercial product with SaaS business model, which is the key investment focus for Digital Future. The event was a success and provided participants with valuable information. For example, among mentors there was Viktor Kompaneyets, known for his expertise in technology space and business development, who shared his knowledge with entrepreneurs to help them succeed.

Moreover, it was the unique opportunity to learn about growing business and exchange ideas with the most influential investors in Ukraine, which made up jury committee. Jury members included: Oleksii Vitchenko (Digital Future), Natasha Berezovska (Detonate Ventures), Artem Borodatyuk (Founder of Netpeak and CEO of Serpstat), Andrey Kolodyuk (AVentures), Andriy Dovzhenko (SMRK VC Fund), Max Pecherskyy (founder and CEO of PromoRepublic). The event provided valuable insights that will help the Ukrainian entrepreneurs in identifying how best to implement their business ideas.