{"id":136135,"date":"2022-02-27T10:22:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/startups-scramble-in-wake-of-ukraine-invasion"},"modified":"2022-02-27T10:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T18:22:58","slug":"startups-scramble-in-wake-of-ukraine-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/startups-scramble-in-wake-of-ukraine-invasion","title":{"rendered":"Startups scramble in wake of Ukraine invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/startups-scramble-in-wake-of-ukraine-invasion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week\u2019s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/newsletters\" class=\"\">subscribe here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doing an abbreviated newsletter this week as I want to spend most of my energy amplifying the brave journalists on the ground reporting about this scary time. As so many have said \u2014 far more eloquently than me \u2014 the invasion of Ukraine is a story that impacts all of us, whether we\u2019re on the ground there or not. And it\u2019s hard to celebrate a funding round when scary times are the moment.<\/p>\n<p>My brilliant colleagues put together a story on<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2022\/02\/24\/russia-ukraine\/\" class=\"\"> how the tech industry is responding to Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>; I urge you to read it. While the situation is still ongoing, it\u2019s clear that it\u2019s already a tech story. And startups such as Grammarly, Ajax, People AI and Preply, backed by some of the world\u2019s biggest VCs, are scrambling to support employees and operations amid the invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week\u2019s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. I\u2019m doing an abbreviated newsletter this week as I want to spend most of my energy amplifying the brave journalists on the ground reporting about this scary time. As so many have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}