Victoria Repa has created an app to help people lose weight, an issue she struggled with growing up.
Another abiding memory from her adolescence was the"sense of pain" she felt for being overweight.
Looking back, she says it was this experience that first got her thinking about one day creating a business around fitness and wellbeing. With most of her peers graduating into secure, well-paid jobs, Victoria initially followed the crowd. She took a position in the finance department of consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.
This was in 2016, when she was 24."I didn't have a family to support, so I thought 'I'm young, I can still take risks'," she says. While the Ukrainian capital is home to software companies such as Epam, Luxoft and Global Logic, who do outsourcing work on behalf of multinational companies, it doesn't have a developed tech start-up tech scene.But while Victoria and Vitaly didn't have an ecosystem of nimble start-ups to lean on, in terms of reaching their desired market, their geographic location was not a problem.
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