Brains to Ventures have recently brought to Ukraine and Russia a bunch of investors from Germany, Switzerland and Austria looking for connections with Eastern European IT business. PrivateDC business tour included visiting St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kyiv.

Program of the tour may be found on PrivateDC website.

I attended dinner on Thursday and deal pitches on Friday in Kyiv. Keynote speaker for the dinner was Leslie Hawrylyshyn of Euroventures Ukraine who focused on the opportunities of Ukrainian markets, claiming Ukraine to be next natural expansion for Western European businesses. Andriy Kolodyuk of AVentures spoke a bit particularly on IT opportunities.

Start-ups presenting next day were adgine.net, IM-History, INTSPEI P-Navigator.com, Viewdle, adgine.net, carbon+. And APowerCap, self-characterized as the only company of presenting ones producing something in th real world.