Nominations and evaluation criteria used to form long-lists of nominees:
- Investment attracted in 2021
- The amount of investment exceeded $3 million
- Series A round or higher
- Company orientation on developing and/or producing knowledge-intensive products with high potential; or innovation and technological effectiveness of a business idea
01. airSlate airSlate Workflow automation
![Borys Shakhnovych, CEO and Co-Founder, and Vadym Yasynovsky, Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F32%2Fconversions%2Fairslate-borya-shakhnovich-ceo-and-co-founder-vadi...-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643568863)
Sphere | Provides electronic signature, document management solutions and no code business process automation. |
Investment | $50 million and a $40 million Series A+ funding round. |
02. Rallyware Rallyware AI and HR Tech
![George Elfond, Co-founder & СЕО](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F33%2Fconversions%2Fgeorge-headshot-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643576737)
Sphere | A platform to increase the productivity of remote and distributed work. |
Investment | $22 million Series A+ funding round. |
03. People.ai People.ai AI and business analytics
![Oleg Rogynskyy, CEO & Founder](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F31%2Fconversions%2Foleg-roginskii-seo-zasnovnik-oleg-rogynskyy-ceo-fo...-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643571233)
Sphere | The company developed a platform for corporate sales and marketing. |
Investment | $100 million Series A+ funding round. |
04. Grammarly Grammarly Communications
![Max Lytvyn, Co-founder & Head of Revenue, Alex Shevchenko, Co-founder & Product Lead, and Dmytro Lider, Co-Founder, Head of Language Technology](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F7%2Fconversions%2F035a5594-26d7-4a54-b265-131f14ef4001-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643576660)
Sphere | The company developed a same-name app, an AI-based writing assistant. |
Investment | $200 million Series A+ funding round. |
05. Preply Preply Е-learning
![Dmytro Voloshyn, CTO & Co-founder, Kyrylo Bigai, CEO & Сo-founder, and Sergiy Lukyanov, Head of Design Operations & Co-founder](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F92%2Fconversions%2Funnamed-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643571304)
Sphere | A language learning platform driven by data-science with an opportunity to personalize the learning process. |
Investment | $35 million Series A+ funding round. |
06. Influ2 Influ2 Business process automation
![Dmytro Lysytsky, CEO](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F51%2Fconversions%2F975a1877-3-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643568972)
Sphere | A person-based marketing platform for B2B Markets to target decision-makers, capture their intent and track engagement. |
Investment | $8 million Series A+ funding round. |
07. SOC Prime SOC Prime Cyber security and marketplace
![Andrii Bezverkhyi, CEO](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F36%2Fconversions%2Fandrii-bezverxii-photo-ceo-soc-prime-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643548671)
Sphere | The company developed a threat detection marketplace enabling researchers as well as security teams to monetize their content defending against cyber-attacks. |
Investment | $11.5 million Series A+ funding round. |
08. 3DLOOK 3DLOOK E-commerce, AI
![Oleksandr Arapov, Co-founder, Vadym Rogovskiy, CEO & Co-founder, Ivan Makeev, CSO & Co-founder](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F37%2Fconversions%2F3dlook-founding-team-alex-arapov-vadim-rogovskiy-i...-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643576823)
Sphere | The company provides AI mobile body scanning solutions for e-commerce. |
Investment | $10 million in round A. |
09. TurnKey Lender TurnKey Lender Fintech
![Оlena Ionenko, Co-founder & COO and Dmytro Voronenko, Co-founder & CEO](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F50%2Fconversions%2F22-1-1-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643567867)
Sphere | AI-based SaaS for digital lending. |
Investment | $6.1 million Series A+ funding round. |
10. Creatio Creatio Рrocess management and CRM
![Kateryna Kostereva, Сo-founder & CEO](https://images.weserv.nl?w=220&h=140&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmazepaawards.com%2Fstorage%2F38%2Fconversions%2Fkaterina-kostereva-seo-zasnovnicya-katherine-koste...-crop.jpg%3Fv%3D1643578309)
Sphere | A developer of low-code solutions for process management and CRM. |
Investment | $68 million private investment. |