Today is Telesens’ anniversary!

11/ 11/ 2023

Author: Eduard Rubin, Founder of Telesens 25 years is enough time to talk about its history, successes, achievements, and people. It is simply impossible to tell you all the details of this fascinating journey, but some of the key moments of our history are worth sharing. 1998. Telesens was founded in Kharkiv as a development center of the German parent company that worked on Deutsche Telekom projects. We were the first IT company in Kharkiv and one of the few in Ukraine with foreign investments. We started using technologies that only a few of the specialists we hired knew at the time. So we looked for smart, ambitious people, and trained them alongside their work. For almost a year, we had three German specialists working with us to set up modern processes. We used to jokingly call them Europrocesses. :) 2000. The parent company conducted an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and became a public company. 2002. Crisis and the beginning of an independent life. The company in Germany went bankrupt, but we survived and bought out the Ukrainian part of the company and the Interconnect product we had developed, which became Telesens flagship product. At that time, there was no such thing as a startup, but thats exactly what it was. At the same time, we continued to work with Deutsche Telekom. 2003. We got our first client in Ukraine - Kyivstar. Looking ahead, we are still working with them and they are our best client. But we will tell you about this story later. Since then, all telecoms in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, as well as the largest telecom in Uzbekistan, have become our clients. Our partners are the largest integrators Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, and an Israeli company that, after many transformations, became part of the IT giant AMDOCS, which has a huge share of the US IT services market. Today, we offer 12 products and are working on three new ones, which we will present to our clients shortly. From the very first years of our existence, we have paid great attention to quality and safety. We have been certified according to ISO 9001 standards, and a few years ago we were certified according to ISO 27001. We are technology partners of such giants as Microsoft and Oracle. Our team includes 30% women, both developers and non-technical specialists. We work on the principles of gender equality and create conditions for development and growth. Our specialists have grown in the company from the position of translator to Head of key account manager. The entire top management, including the CEO, CFO, HRD, and Chief Accountant, are women. 26 employees have been with the company for more than 10 years, and 11 have been with it for almost 25 years. We have a great team, and I am grateful to all our employees for the work they do. We work for life, not live for work, so from the first days of the companys existence, we have had a good social package, where the vacation period is still 28 calendar days because people should burn with their work, not burn out. In peacetime, we always got together and celebrated our birthdays as a team, but then the pandemic and the war meant we didnt have time for big holidays. Many of our guys are fighting today, and those of us who are working support our guys and other units of the Armed Forces financially. We are all working for victory and Ukraine will win. 25 years is just an intermediate anniversary. We have a lot of plans and they are interesting. I want to thank the current Telesens Team and those who have worked with us for 25 years, and I am grateful to our clients and partners for their long-standing cooperation. Lets keep running!

Author: Eduard Rubin, Founder of Telesens

25 years is enough time to talk about its history, successes, achievements, and people. It is simply impossible to tell you all the details of this fascinating journey, but some of the key moments of our history are worth sharing.

1998. Telesens was founded in Kharkiv as a development center of the German parent company that worked on Deutsche Telekom projects. We were the first IT company in Kharkiv and one of the few in Ukraine with foreign investments. We started using technologies that only a few of the specialists we hired knew at the time. So we looked for smart, ambitious people, and trained them alongside their work. For almost a year, we had three German specialists working with us to set up modern processes. We used to jokingly call them ” Europrocesses”. 🙂

2000. The parent company conducted an IPO on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and became a public company.

2002. Crisis and the beginning of an independent life. The company in Germany went bankrupt, but we survived and bought out the Ukrainian part of the company and the Interconnect product we had developed, which became Telesens’ flagship product. At that time, there was no such thing as a startup, but that’s exactly what it was. At the same time, we continued to work with Deutsche Telekom.

2003. We got our first client in Ukraine – Kyivstar. Looking ahead, we are still working with them and they are our best client. But we will tell you about this story later.

Since then, all telecoms in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, as well as the largest telecom in Uzbekistan, have become our clients. Our partners are the largest integrators Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, and an Israeli company that, after many transformations, became part of the IT giant AMDOCS, which has a huge share of the US IT services market.

Today, we offer 12 products and are working on three new ones, which we will present to our clients shortly.

From the very first years of our existence, we have paid great attention to quality and safety. We have been certified according to ISO 9001 standards, and a few years ago we were certified according to ISO 27001. We are technology partners of such giants as Microsoft and Oracle.

Our team includes 30% women, both developers and non-technical specialists.

We work on the principles of gender equality and create conditions for development and growth. Our specialists have grown in the company from the position of translator to Head of key account manager.

The entire top management, including the CEO, CFO, HRD, and Chief Accountant, are women.

26 employees have been with the company for more than 10 years, and 11 have been with it for almost 25 years.

We have a great team, and I am grateful to all our employees for the work they do.

We work for life, not live for work, so from the first days of the company’s existence, we have had a good social package, where the vacation period is still 28 calendar days because people should burn with their work, not burn out.

In peacetime, we always got together and celebrated our birthdays as a team, but then the pandemic and the war meant we didn’t have time for big holidays. Many of our guys are fighting today, and those of us who are working support our guys and other units of the Armed Forces financially. We are all working for victory and Ukraine will win.

25 years is just an intermediate anniversary. We have a lot of plans and they are interesting.

I want to thank the current Telesens Team and those who have worked with us for 25 years, and I am grateful to our clients and partners for their long-standing cooperation.

Let’s keep running!