Bird was founded in September 2017 by Travis VanderZanden, formerly an executive at Lyft and at Uber. It had its Series A round of funding in February 2018, raising $15 million led by Craft Ventures; this was followed by a Series B round in March for $100 million, led by Index Ventures and Valor Equity Partners, and a venture round in May for $150 million from Sequoia Capital, becoming the fastest company to ever reach the $1 billion "unicorn" valuation. In June 2018, Bird raised an additional $300 million, valuing the company at $2 billion.
GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic is a digital product engineering services company headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. It is a privately held company funded by Partners Group and CPP Investment Board. GlobalLogic provides software product design and development services.
GlobalLogic got its start in 2000 as Induslogic, a provider of outsourced software and product development services. Peter Harrison was appointed CEO in 2001 and Vasudev Bhandarkar joined the board in 2004. Under the direction of its CEO Peter Harrison, the company incubated Pine Labs in 2001 and then divided this subsidiary in 2006 before selling it to Sequoia Capital.
In 2006, Induslogic merged with Bonus Technology to form GlobalLogic, a new global product development services company.
The same year, the company received Series B venture round funding of $12.5M from Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates in 2006 and acquired Lambent Technologies, an offshore software R&D services firm based in Nagpur, India.
In 2008, GlobalLogic opened offices in London, naming Mike Daniels as chairman of the board and hiring Shashank Samant as President.The same year, it acquired U.S.-based Validio Software and its Ukraine-based development center.
In 2012, CEO Peter Harrison became vice chairman and its president, Shashank Samant, was appointed CEO.
In 2014, GlobalLogic hired Zaheer Allam as chief delivery officer and opened new delivery centers in Nagpur, India and Kosice, Slovakia. In 2015, the company opened a delivery center in Kraków, Poland. In 2016, Peter Bonfield took over the role of board chairman. The same year, GlobalLogic acquired REC Global, a Poland-based software development provider specializing in embedded technologies.Innovecs
Innovecs is an international software development company founded by Alex Lutsky in 2011. The company has offices in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Israel and Ukraine. R&D centers are located in Ukraine.
Innovecs was founded in September 2011.
In 2017-2020, Innovecs was included in the Inc. rating. 5000. Also, the company is included in the IAOP rating 'The Global Outsourcing 100 - a list of the world's best outsourcing companies.
The company currently has more than 800 employees in Ukraine, the United States and Europe.
In 2016-2019, Innovecs achieved 186% growth, serving more than 100 customers. Innovecs' core expertise is the development of B2B software solutions with a focus on software engineering.
In 2015, Innovecs launched a research and development center based on blockchain technology in Kyiv. The center was founded with the participation of the Bitcoin Foundation Ukraine.
In 2018, Innovecs acquired the outsourcing division of the Ukrainian mobile game development company Tatem Games as part of a strategic decision to implement the direction of video game development. Now Innovecs Gaming is a separate division designed to promote the company in the international field of video game outsourcing.
In August 2018, Innovecs opened InnoHub, a 600 m2 multimedia environment for educational activities in business and technology.
In June 2019, Innovecs launches InnoCamp, an education development program for IT professionals based on international business practices. InnoCamp experts and managers follow the EduScrum methodology.
In 2020, Innovecs created the Innovecs COVID-19 fund in the amount of UAH 1,500,000 (one and a half million). The main priority of the fund is assistance in the fight against coronavirus in Ukraine.
The company promotes the Hearts Charity Evening, a Ukrainian social initiative that supports children with heart disease.
2021–22 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round
The 2021–22 UEFA Champions League qualifying phase and play-off round will begin on 22 June and end on 25 August 2021. All times are CEST (), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).
The Champions Path includes all league champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:
All teams eliminated from the Champions Path will enter either the Europa League or the Europa Conference League:
Below are the participating teams of the Champions Path (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.
The League Path includes all league non-champions which do not qualify directly for the group stage, and consists of the following rounds:
All teams eliminated from the League Path enter the Europa League:
Below are the participating teams of the League Path (with their 2021 UEFA club coefficients), grouped by their starting rounds.
Each tie, apart from the preliminary round, is played over two legs, with each team playing one leg at home. The team that scores more goals on aggregate over the two legs advance to the next round. If the aggregate score is level, the away goals rule is applied, i.e. the team that scores more goals away from home over the two legs advances. If away goals are also equal, then extra time is played. The away goals rule is again applied after extra time, i.e. if there are goals scored during extra time and the aggregate score is still level, the visiting team advances by virtue of more away goals scored. If no goals are scored during extra time, the tie is decided by penalty shoot-out. In the preliminary round, where single-match semi-finals and final are hosted by one of the participating teams, if scores are level at the end of normal time, extra time is played, followed by penalty shoot-out if scores remain tied.
In the draws for each round, teams are seeded based on their UEFA club coefficients at the beginning of the season, with the teams divided into seeded and unseeded pots containing the same number of teams. A seeded team is drawn against an unseeded team, with the order of legs (or the administrative "home" team in the preliminary round matches) in each tie decided by draw. As the identity of the winners of the previous round is not known at the time of the draws, the seeding is carried out under the assumption that the team with the higher coefficient of an undecided tie advances to this round, which means if the team with the lower coefficient is to advance, it simply takes the seeding of its opponent. Prior to the draws, UEFA may form "groups" in accordance with the principles set by the Club Competitions Committee, but they are purely for convenience of the draw and do not resemble any real groupings in the sense of the competition. Teams from associations with political conflicts as decided by UEFA may not be drawn into the same tie. After the draws, the order of legs of a tie may be reversed by UEFA due to scheduling or venue conflicts.
The schedule of the competition is as follows (all draws are held at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland).
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The draw for the preliminary round will be held on 8 June 2021, 12:00 CEST.
The preliminary round matches, which consist of two semi-finals on 22 June 2021 and the final on 25 June 2021, were originally to be played in the Faroe Islands. However, it will be moved due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Faroe Islands, with the new venue to be confirmed.<section end="PR" />