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MacPaw

MacPaw is a Kyiv-headquartered software company that built one of the largest independent Mac-only software businesses in the world, with tens of millions of users across its portfolio. Its flagship products include CleanMyMac (the most widely used macOS cleanup and maintenance utility), Setapp (a subscription bundle that gives users access to a curated catalog of more than 240 paid Mac and iOS apps for a flat monthly fee), ClearVPN, and Gemini.

Founded in 2008 by Oleksandr Kosovan, the company has remained profitable and mostly bootstrapped, and has become one of the most culturally important tech employers in Ukraine — doubly so since February 2022, when MacPaw kept its Kyiv engineering organization running through the full-scale Russian invasion, set up a dedicated foundation for war relief, and used its in-house research lab (MacPaw R&D) to build open-source tools for the war effort. For the directory, MacPaw is the canonical Ukrainian consumer-software story and a reminder that not every successful European software company looks like a VC-backed SaaS rocket.

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