A Ukrainian startup won two awards at CES 2025. Others also had something to show
16 January 12:35
8 startups represented Ukraine at CES 2025, an annual technology and consumer electronics exhibition traditionally held in the United States. This was reported by the Ukrainian Startup Fund, Komersant ukrainskyi reports.
The Ukrainian tech ecosystem was represented at the Eureka Park startup pavilion by startups: S.Lab, Syla, Qudi, Versi Bionics, eXtra Vision, Beetless, Pickpad, Profeed.
The Pickpad startup returned home with a great result. The team received two top awards: CES Innovation Award – 2025 Honoree in Artificial Intelligence and Best of Tech Podcast Network CES 2025.

“Pickpad, a modular smart panel system powered by sensors and machine learning, has been awarded the prestigious CES 2025 Innovation Award in the highly competitive Artificial Intelligence category for its pioneering concept of transforming the customer experience in restaurants,” the startup’ s website describes the achievement.
What Pickpad offers and how it works
Pickpad’s innovative solution is designed to increase efficiency and customer retention in busy restaurants. Seamlessly integrating with existing technological systems, settings, and design, the system works in the background to automate key processes: the order is received through the POS system, then sent to the printer, which prints the Pickpad number, after the order is completed, sensors determine whether it is collected correctly: a red light indicates an error, a green light confirms the correctness. After verification, Pickpad displays the customer’s name on its digital display.

This startup was founded in 2024 by Yaroslav Tsyganenko, who previously developed the food delivery service Mister.Am.
The trip to CES 2025 was also effective for other Ukrainian participants
Profeed, a startup that has developed a system for managing feeding on livestock farms and feed production, has almost doubled the number of customers and preliminarily agreed on $2 million in product investments.
Qudi has signed deals with two new customers, who have purchased a record number of masks from them, allowing them to create a personalized AI avatar in real life. The startup also has preliminary agreements to raise $200 thousand in investment.
S.Lab, a manufacturer of eco-friendly packaging made from plant components that can replace foam, has met with more than 20 potential partners, tripled its customer base, and started negotiations to raise up to $1 million in investment.
EXtra Vision, a startup developing an AI augmented reality platform used in surgery and medical training, is in talks with more than 10 potential clients. Among them are medical universities and clinics that want to integrate Ukrainian technologies to train students and improve surgical practice.

The New York Times also wrote about Ukrainian participants of CES 2025
The article mentions not only Hyundai Mobis, an automotive parts manufacturer that demonstrated a technology called M.Brain, which uses a sensor to monitor drivers and warn them if they are distracted, not only John Deere, which demonstrated a new technology for an autonomous tractor in cars, not only the California-based car manufacturer Aptera, which showed its solar-powered car, and not only Tokyo-based startup Yukai Engineering, which demonstrated a cat-shaped robot, but also the Ukrainian startup SkyFall, which presented an unmanned kamikaze system developed for use during the war in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian company DroneUA, which also demonstrated its own drones at the exhibition.