From Ukraine to the U.S. YEP Accelerator Demo Day in partnership with SHACK15
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 with a $3M investment opportunity fund.
Our partner funds:
💰 u.ventures, OneWay Ventures, ZAS Ventures, Geek Ventures, Dnipro VC, Network VC, Angel One Fund, Vesna Capital, Green Flag Ventures, Flyer One 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:
🔹 Anton Waschuk (u.ventures)
🔹 Andrii Sorokhan (u.ventures)
🔹 Eugene Malobrodsky (One Way Ventures)
🔹 Nick Bilogorskiy (Dnipro VC)
🔹 Marianna Bonechi (Dnipro VC)
🔹 Dave Matli (ZAS Ventures)
🔹 Maks Strukov (Geek Ventures)
🔹 Olexander Soroka (Network VC)
🔹 Adrian Hunter (Fiat Ventures)
🔹 Dan Tyre (Tyre Angel, Stage 2 Capital)
🔹 Ivan Petrenko (Angel One Fund)
🔹 Petro Sovyak-Krukovskyy (Vesna Capital)
🔹 Olena Mazhuha (Flyer One Ventures)
🔹 Justin Zeefe (Green Flag Ventures)
🔹 Rhonda Shrader (Berkeley Haas)
🔹 Joanne Fedeyko (Connection Silicon Valley)
🔹 Alina Adams (Onsen Global)
🔹 Laurent Rains (Alchemist)
🕔 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 - a private social club for founders, investors, and creators, based in San Francisco's Ferry Building. It brings together an international community building companies of consequence.
🤝 Event partner: Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP), Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
☝️ Ecosystem partners: Consulate General of Ukraine in San Francisco, Ukrainian Startup Fund, Alchemist, Berkeley Haas, Fiat Ventures, J.P. Morgan, Unicorn Events, Connection Silicon Valley, Genesis, Spyre Group, SILTA, Mazepa League, and Raisable.
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).