Yury is enthusiastic about civic and charity tech. Professional marketing specialist, he is also the founder of the Saveus charity platform and the winner of 2020 EaP Civil Society Hackathon.

For the last seven years Yury had worked with hundreds of US and Canadian companies, launched his own marketing agency, participated in launch of 1-million tokens sale ICO campaign, launched five Shopify apps used by thousands of merchants. In 2021 Yury launched Saveus.by charity platform, a unique charity marketplace that helps animal rights activists and organizations to raise funds in modern and transparent way. In six months, the platform became the fastest-growing fundraising solution in the EaP and Central Asia countries, with 18,000+ registered users, over EUR 200,000 raised for charity purposes and thousands of saved lives.

The main goal of Yury’s new project ­– Fandy – is to challenge the gap in tech access between for-profit businesses and charities. When one is planning to launch an ecommerce store there are hundreds of instruments to choose from. But when a person is trying to create a simple fundraising page as a European charity, it takes good 8 hours to find some US services and understand that it’s nearly impossible to use them without a US incorporated company.

“Modern technology can be a gamechanger for any kind of business. Today’s challenges cannot be solved by the means that were relevant yesterday. Therefore, it is so important to provide charities and CSOs with modern-day instruments that can revolutionize their whole workflow and fundraising process.” YURY KUKHALSKI