11 Ukrainians Included in Forbes '30 Under 30. Europe' List
Global Forbes has published the list "30 under 30. Europe" list, which includes 11 Ukrainians at once. The list includes producer and journalist Vasilisa Stepanenko, co-author of the Oscar-winning film 20 Days of Mariupol, and athlete Yaroslava Maguchikh.
According to Forbes Ukraine, Ukrainians were shortlisted in five categories.
In the Media and Marketing category, producer and journalist Vasilisa Stepanenko, who, together with Mstislav Chernov and Yevhen Malolhetka, worked on the Oscar and BAFTA-winning documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, was recognised. In addition, Stepanenko, Chernov and Maloletka won both the Pulitzer Prize in 2023 and the Shevchenko Prize in 2024 for this film.
Also in this category is Max Klymenko, a Ukrainian entrepreneur and blogger with more than 5 million subscribers on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. He is also the founder of the KLYM&CO communication agency.
Yaroslava Maguchikh, a Ukrainian athlete specialising in high jump, was nominated in the Sports and Games category. She is a 5-time winner of the world championships, twice won gold (indoors in 2022 and outdoors in 2023), and three times won silver. Maguchikh is also the leader of the World Athletics world ranking among women high jumpers.
Dana Sidorenko, who founded the gaming startup Gametree, was also recognised. The startup uses artificial intelligence to help gamers find partners for games.
Margarita Sivakova and Maksym Malyuk, founders of Legal Nodes, were recognised in the Technology category. Their startup replaces in-house lawyers for companies. In 2022, Sivakova was included in the 20 Under 30 list by Ukrainian Forbes.
The list also includes Yevheniia Brosheva, co-founder of cybersecurity company Hacken, and Veronika Yurchuk, CTO of Traces AI, a startup that provides video analytics in the security sector using artificial intelligence.
Partners of the Flyer One Ventures venture capital fund Alexey Yermolenko and Elena Mazhuga were added to the Finance team. The fund's investments over the past five years have exceeded $40 million.
In the Social Change category, Vladyslav Peristyi was recognised for creating Speaking Club, an online English language learning school, in 2018.