From Kyiv to SF: YEP Accelerator Demo Day
Join us for the Demo Day of YEP Accelerator, a Ukrainian accelerator designed to help high-potential startups from Ukraine 🇺🇦 successfully enter the 🇺🇸 U.S. market.
After a 3-month online acceleration and 5 weeks of San Francisco immersion, 9 startups will pitch to investors who have soft-committed to a 💥 $3M investment fund.💥
Our partner funds:
💰 u.ventures, ZAS Ventures, Geek Ventures, Angel One Fund, Vesna Capital, Network VC, Green Flag Ventures, Dnipro VC, Flyer One Ventures, OneWay Ventures.
Meet the startups:
🔸 Almexoft — A no-code tool that configures workflows in hours without any coding or implementation.
🔸 Obriy - An enterprise AI platform that replaces human support agents with autonomous AI agents.
🔸 JetBeep - Develops and supplies battery-powered, fully autonomous smart lockers for last-mile logistics and parcel delivery.
🔸 Elomia - Safe, ethical, and clinically validated (3+ independent RCTs) AI for mental health, which can be integrated via an API.
🔸 Apprify - Transforms complex mortgage files into clear qualification paths, helping brokers save time, reduce risks, and approve more clients with confidence.
🔸 Stackbooster - ML-powered vertical and horizontal Kubernetes scaling, combined with application auto-scaling and predictive instance management.
🔸 Briefkits - Connects to your Meta ad account and watches every video frame-by-frame with multimodal AI, matching audience drop-off to the exact moment attention breaks.
🔸 TaskRoom - AI Receptionist that answers calls, handles WhatsApp messages, and books appointments automatically - purpose-built for franchise businesses.
🔸 Unpitch - Simulates how your ideal customer reacts to your message - before you send it.
Our investor jury:
🔹 Adrian Hunter (Fiat Ventures)
🔹 Eugene Malobrodsky (One Way Ventures)
🔹 Nick Bilogorskiy (Dnipro VC)
🔹 Marianna Bonecci (Dnipro VC)
🔹 Olexander Soroka (Network VC)
🔹 Anton Waschuk (u.ventures)
🔹 Andrii Sorokhan (u.ventures)
🔹 Justin Zeefe (Green Flag Ventures)
🔹 Rhonda Shrader (Berkeley Haas)
🔹 Joanne Fedeyko (Connection Silicon Valley)
🔹 Olexi Malytskiy (MZP League)
🔹 Alina Adams (Onsen Global)
🔹 Laurent Rains (Alchemist)
🔹 Alejandro Manzanares (J.P. Morgan)
🔹 Eugene Gitin (Base 5 Capital)
🕔 Event agenda:
5:00 PM - Doors Open & Networking
5:30 PM - Welcome & YEP Accelerator introduction
5:45 PM - Startup Pitches
7:00 PM - Investor & Founder Networking
8:00 PM - Closing
📍 Venue: SHACK15
🤝 Event partner: Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
Join us as a guest, or if you're an investor, we'd love to see you on our judging panel!
📌 The YEP Accelerator is supported by the Ukraine-Moldova American Enterprise Fund, which invests in a competitive economy to create strong, prosperous, and secure business opportunities.
🖇 The program, as well as YEP’s broader development and acceleration capacity expansion is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as part of its Star Venture Programme in Ukraine, funded by Switzerland through the EBRD Small Business Impact Fund (Fund donors: Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the Taiwan Business–EBRD Technical Cooperation Fund, the United Kingdom, and the United States).