Nova Poshta, the leader in express delivery in Ukraine and part of the NOVA group, does not plan to become a marketplace, as it has no intention of engaging in the business of its own customers, according to co-owner Vyacheslav Klimov.
“Our main asset is our focus on delivery, so there will never be a marketplace,” Klimov emphasized in the second part of the Fedoriv Vlog episode on YouTube.
According to Nova Poshta co-owner Volodymyr Poperechnyuk, the company plans to develop in the field of logistics and delivery over the next 10 years.
“There are no marketplaces in our 10-year plans at all,” Poperechnyuk clarified.
Separately, Poperechnyuk noted that Nova Poshta has set goals for increasing the use of robots in performing work tasks.
“I think we will start from global practices, such as Amazon, which has millions of robots. I think we will start with thousands,” the co-owner emphasized.
The day before, during the presentation of the book “For Managers” by Artem Borodatyuk, founder of the IT company Fractal, Klimov announced that one of Nova Poshta’s strategic bets for the future is fulfillment services — providing a complete chain from ordering goods to delivering them to the customer.
As reported, Nova Poshta increased its revenue by 21% in 2025 compared to 2024. The number of parcels and cargo delivered in 2025 increased by 7.4% – from 486 million to 522 million, including international deliveries – by 52.6%, from 19 million to 29 million.
The main activity of Nova Poshta is the express delivery of documents, parcels, and palletized large-sized cargo. Its ultimate beneficial owners are Volodymyr Poperechnyuk and Vyacheslav Klimov.
As of early January 2026, the company’s network had more than 50,000 service points, including 15,900 branches and 34,200 post offices.
Monobank has launched a new service called Monobazar, which allows customers to sell their own items within the app, according to the bank’s co-founder Oleg Gorokhovsky.
“We are launching a beta version of monoBazar, a simple service within monoMarket where customers can sell their items. The feature is already available, and we are opening testing to everyone,” Gorokhovsky wrote on his Telegram channel on Monday.
According to him, the service has three main advantages: the ability to purchase goods in parts, verification of all sellers through the monobank system, and the creation of a personal showcase that users can share on social networks or send to friends.
The post notes that monoBazar has a number of additional features. In particular, a built-in AI model can automatically generate a detailed description of the product based on a short text provided by the user. An automated trading format has also been implemented: the buyer can offer their price, and the seller makes a decision without the need for correspondence.
According to the co-founder of monobank, the seller receives the funds only after the buyer picks up the parcel from the post office. If the buyer refuses the product, the money is automatically returned to the buyer and the product is returned to the seller.
The service is available in the monobank app in the “Market” section.
The service commission is 0.1% until January 8 during testing, after which it is planned to increase to 1.9%, with the buyer paying the additional cost of delivery.
Gorokhovsky also noted that until January 8, users can sell items for charity: in this case, the amount is transferred to the “Charter” fund, and monobank doubles the contribution.
As reported, the virtual monobank, created by Fintech Band LLC on the basis of Universal Bank, currently ranks second in the market in terms of the number of cards. According to the NBU, as of October 1, 2025, Universal Bank had issued a total of 25.45 million cards, of which almost 9.85 million were used for transactions during the month.
Currently, OLX is the largest player in the Ukrainian market of digital platforms for selling items.
The international marketplace for finding private tutors Preply has pulled in $4 million in the seed round. Lead investor was Point Nine Capital, Berlin-based venture fund, investing in SaaS and marketplaces at early stages. “Investors in Preply’s seed round include Arthur Kosten (ex-CMO at Booking.com, 2003-2012), Polish VC RTAventures, founder & CEO of DocPlanner Mariusz Gralewski, Poland’s Grupa Pracuj EO Przemyslaw Gacek, Diligent Capital Partners (Ukraine) and SMRK (Ukraine),” Preply reported.
“Next year we plan to become the leading marketplace for finding private tutors of foreign languages in the world,” co-founder and CEO of Preply Kirill Bigai said.
Managing Partner of Point Nine Capital Pawel Chudzinski, in turn, said that the fund took this opportunity to enter the fragmented online tutoring market, evaluating the focus on consumer experience and global proof of the concept, and will contribute to the efforts of the Preply team to win leadership on it. The new round of financing will support the long-term development of new products, including the Preply calendar, instant booking options, and the launch of a mobile application.
In addition, the funding allowed Preply to open a second office in Berlin and build up a team of senior professionals working on the product: managers, designers and developers. In the near future the startup plans to search and appoint VP of Marketing.
The company was founded in 2012 by Bigai, Sergey Lukyanov (Head of Product Design) and Dmytro Voloshyn (CTO) with offices in Kyiv and Berlin.
