INPUT SOFT

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Attribute	Details
Name	INPUT SOFT
Tagline	SaaS for aviation ground-handling resource and data management
Headquarters	Kyiv, Ukraine
Founded	2021 [PitchBook, Unknown]
Stage	Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry	Logistics / Supply Chain
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Eastern Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (3+)
Funding Label	Seed
Total Disclosed Funding	$920,000 (estimated) [Perplexity Sonar Pro Brief, 2024] [AIN, 2023] [dev.ua, Unknown]

Links

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• Website: https://www.inputsoft.net/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inputsoftnet

Executive Summary

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INPUT SOFT is a Kyiv-based startup building a SaaS platform to optimize ground-handling operations at airports, a niche that deserves investor attention for its focus on digitizing a traditionally manual, high-cost segment of aviation logistics [Perplexity Sonar Pro Brief, 2024]. Founded in 2021 by three colleagues with a combined three decades of aviation experience, the company aims to replace spreadsheets and legacy systems with a suite covering resource planning, staff rostering, and real-time operations control, enhanced by AI and satellite data for analytics and emissions tracking [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. The founding team, led by CEO Anastasia Smyk and CTO Valentyn Zavadskyi, brings direct domain knowledge to the problem, though their prior commercial track records in enterprise software are not detailed in public sources [Anastasiia Smyk LinkedIn, 2026] [Valentyn Zavadskyi LinkedIn, 2026].

To date, the company has raised a reported $920,000 across three seed-stage rounds from investors including TechStars, SID Venture Partners, ZAS Ventures, and the EU, operating on a SaaS business model targeting airports, ground handlers, and airlines [AIN, 2023] [dev.ua, Unknown] [TechUkraine, Unknown] [Author note, Apr 2026]. Its early validation comes from pilot projects at several Ukrainian airports and announced partnerships with major entities like the Emirates Group and Dubai Airports, though the commercial scale of these relationships is not yet publicly quantified [LIGA.net, Unknown] [Perplexity Sonar Pro Brief, 2024]. Over the next 12-18 months, the critical watchpoints will be the conversion of these high-profile pilots into disclosed, recurring revenue contracts and the company's ability to scale its commercial and operational footprint beyond its Eastern European base amid ongoing geopolitical headwinds.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Core company facts and funding rounds are corroborated by multiple regional tech publications, but key traction metrics and partnership details rely on single-source reports.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Classification
Stage	Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry / Vertical	Logistics / Supply Chain
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Eastern Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (3+)
Funding	Seed

Company Overview

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INPUT SOFT was founded in 2021 in Kyiv, Ukraine, by three aviation industry colleagues who saw an opportunity to modernize ground-handling operations [PitchBook]. The founding team, Anastasia Smyk, Valentyn Zavadskyi, and Andriy Smyk, brought a combined three decades of experience in the sector [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. The company's early development was shaped by its participation in the TechStars accelerator program in 2022, which included a $120,000 pre-seed investment [Perplexity Sonar Pro Brief, 2024].

Following the accelerator, INPUT SOFT secured a $250,000 seed round in 2023 led by SID Venture Partners [AIN, 2023]. A subsequent seed round in 2024, reported as a €500,000 (approximately $550,000) investment from the EU, was aimed at fueling international expansion [dev.ua]. The company has also been listed as a portfolio investment by Sigma Software Labs and ZAS Ventures [Sigma Software Labs] [Author note, Apr 2026].

Key operational milestones include pilot deployments of its software with ground-handling departments at three major Ukrainian airports: Odesa, Boryspil, and Zhuliany [LIGA.net]. The company has publicly announced partnership discussions and validation projects with global entities including Emirates Group, Dubai Airports, and Amadeus, though the commercial status of these engagements is not detailed in public reports [Greencubator, 2023-2024].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Key dates and funding amounts are reported by multiple sources, but specific partnership and pilot details rely on single-source coverage.

Product and Technology

MIXED INPUT SOFT's core proposition is a web-based suite designed to replace the manual, Excel-driven processes that still dominate aviation ground operations. The platform targets the resource-intensive and time-sensitive turnaround process, where aircraft are serviced between flights. According to company descriptions, the software consolidates several key functions into a single system [Greencubator, 2023-2024].

• Resource and staff planning. The platform provides tools for scheduling ground crews, managing equipment like baggage tugs and fuel trucks, and forecasting traffic to align resources with flight schedules.
• Real-time operations control. A centralized dashboard offers live visibility into ongoing turnaround activities, equipment location, and task completion status.
• Data collection and invoicing. The system automates the logging of service events and can generate invoices based on the work performed, aiming to reduce billing errors and administrative overhead.

The company's stated technical differentiation hinges on integrating external data streams with predictive analytics. The product claims to use AI and satellite data to create scenarios for optimizing operations, with a stated goal of improving on-time performance and reducing ground-based emissions [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. This positions it as a tool for the industry's growing focus on sustainability and digital transformation. The technology stack is not detailed in public sources, but can be inferred from a historical job posting for a Backend Lead Developer, which listed core PHP and Node.js as required skills [Wellfound].

Public evidence of product deployment comes from early-stage pilots. The company has reported conducting pilot projects with the ground handling departments at three major Ukrainian airports: Odesa, Boryspil, and Zhuliany [LIGA.net]. Broader, non-binding partnership discussions have been announced with global entities including the Emirates Group, Dubai Airports, and travel technology provider Amadeus, though the commercial status of these engagements is not publicly detailed [Greencubator, 2023-2024].

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Product claims are consistent across company and secondary sources, but technical specifications and live customer deployment details are limited.

Market Research

PUBLIC The market for airport and ground-handling software is being reshaped by a post-pandemic recovery that demands efficiency and new sustainability mandates, creating a window for digital-first solutions.

Direct market sizing for aviation ground-handling software is not publicly available from third-party reports. The broader context is provided by the global airport digital transformation market, which a 2023 report from MarketsandMarkets valued at $31.8 billion and projected to reach $52.9 billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 10.7% (analogous market, MarketsandMarkets). This growth is driven by airports seeking to optimize operations, reduce costs, and improve passenger experience. The more specific ground-handling segment, which INPUT SOFT targets, is a critical component of this broader digital spend.

Several demand drivers are cited in coverage of the sector. The primary wedge for INPUT SOFT is sustainability, with its platform emphasizing emissions reduction and resource optimization to help airports meet increasingly stringent environmental regulations [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. A second driver is the industry's reliance on manual processes and legacy systems, such as spreadsheets, which the company's web-based suites aim to replace with automated, data-driven workflows [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. The post-COVID recovery in air travel has also accelerated the need for operational efficiency to handle rising passenger volumes without proportionally increasing costs or delays.

Key adjacent markets that could serve as substitutes or expansion paths include broader airport operational systems (like passenger processing and baggage handling) and airline-specific operations software. The company's cited partnerships with technology providers like Amadeus suggest an integration path into the wider aviation IT ecosystem [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. Regulatory forces, particularly in Europe with initiatives like the European Green Deal and the Single European Sky, are likely to exert pressure on airports to adopt technologies that demonstrably lower carbon footprints and improve operational data reporting.

Given the absence of a confirmed, direct market size, the following table summarizes the available analogous market context and the company's stated target customer segments.

Market Segment	Size / Scope	Source / Note
Airport Digital Transformation (Global)	$31.8B (2023) to $52.9B (2028)	MarketsandMarkets, 2023 (analogous market)
INPUT SOFT Target Customers	Airports, Ground Handlers, Airlines	[Greencubator, 2023-2024]
Primary Geographic Focus	Pilots reported on five continents	[Greencubator, 2023-2024]

The analyst takeaway is that INPUT SOFT is operating in a large and growing adjacent market with clear tailwinds, but the precise serviceable addressable market (SAM) for its niche remains unquantified in public sources. The company's positioning on sustainability and operational efficiency aligns with dominant industry pressures.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Market sizing is inferred from an analogous third-party report; company-specific target and driver claims are from a single secondary source.

Competitive Landscape

MIXED INPUT SOFT enters a market where operational complexity has historically favored manual processes and legacy software, positioning its SaaS platform as a digital wedge for mid-tier airports and ground handlers.

Given the absence of named, directly competing startups in the sourced materials, a formal competitor comparison table cannot be constructed. The competitive analysis must therefore proceed through a mapping of the broader vendor landscape.

The competitive map for aviation ground operations software is fragmented. On one end, large enterprise resource planning (ERP) and airport operational database (AODB) suites from incumbents like Amadeus and SITA offer deep, integrated functionality but at high cost and implementation complexity, often targeting major hub airports [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. On the other end, many regional airports and service providers still rely on spreadsheets and custom-built tools, representing a substantial greenfield opportunity for cloud-based solutions. Adjacent substitutes include generic workforce management and fleet tracking software, but these lack the aviation-specific workflows and data schemas that INPUT SOFT's platform claims to provide.

INPUT SOFT's current defensible edge appears to rest on two pillars: founder domain expertise and a focused product wedge. The founding team's combined 30-plus years in aviation provides inherent credibility and product-market insight for the initial Ukrainian pilot deployments [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. Their product's emphasis on sustainability analytics and real-time AI-driven scenarios, as promoted in company materials, serves as a specific differentiator against both generic tools and slower-moving incumbents. However, this edge is perishable. It depends on continued product execution to match the reliability of entrenched systems and on the team's ability to translate local market knowledge into a scalable, globally relevant sales playbook.

The company's most significant exposure is its lack of a protected channel or proprietary data asset. While it has announced partnership discussions with major entities like Emirates Group and Dubai Airports, these are not exclusive and represent validation exercises rather than entrenched commercial contracts [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. A well-funded incumbent like Amadeus could decide to build or acquire a similar lightweight SaaS offering, leveraging its existing global salesforce and customer relationships to quickly capture the same mid-market segment INPUT SOFT is targeting. Furthermore, the company's Kyiv headquarters, while a source of talent, may be perceived as a geopolitical risk factor for some global customers, potentially hindering sales cycles in more conservative regions.

Over the next 18 months, the most plausible competitive scenario is one of segmentation. The "winner" in INPUT SOFT's immediate niche will be the company that first secures a marquee, paid enterprise contract with a major airport group outside of its home region, proving its solution can scale. For INPUT SOFT, winning requires converting one of its announced partnership pilots into a seven-figure ACV deal. The "loser" would be any similarly positioned startup that fails to move beyond pilot projects and becomes trapped in a cycle of customizing for individual airports without achieving a replicable product configuration. Without demonstrated revenue traction, such companies would likely struggle to raise a Series A round in the current climate.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- Competitive positioning is inferred from company claims and a general market map; no direct competitor profiles are available from public sources.

Opportunity

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INPUT SOFT's opportunity hinges on becoming the foundational digital operating system for ground operations at mid-sized airports worldwide, a role currently occupied by a patchwork of manual processes and legacy software.

The headline opportunity is the creation of a category-defining platform for sustainable airport operations. The company's proposition to replace Excel and paper-based systems with an integrated, AI-driven suite for resource planning, staff rostering, and real-time control addresses a persistent, high-cost pain point in a critical infrastructure sector. This outcome is reachable because the initial wedge, sustainability and emissions reduction, aligns with a powerful, non-discretionary spending driver for airports under regulatory and public pressure [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. Early validation through pilots at Ukrainian airports and ongoing negotiations with entities like Emirates Group and Dubai Airports provide a tangible, if preliminary, beachhead from which to scale [LIGA.net] [Greencubator, 2023-2024].

Growth from this beachhead could follow several concrete paths. The scenarios below outline plausible routes to significant scale.

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
Regional Standard in EMEA	INPUT SOFT becomes the default solution for airports in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa seeking EU-aligned sustainability reporting and operational efficiency.	A major contract with a flagship airport in the UAE or Poland, serving as a reference customer.	The company's reported partnerships with Emirates Group and Dubai Airports for solution validation indicate early inroads with influential regional players who could set a trend [Greencubator, 2023-2024].
Embedded Analytics for Global Handlers	The platform's AI and satellite data modules are licensed to the top three global ground handling companies (e.g., Swissport, dnata, Menzies) as a white-label analytics layer.	A technology partnership with a major aviation IT provider like Amadeus, which is already listed as a partner [Greencubator, 2023-2024].	The product's claimed integration of AI and satellite data for real-time analytics and emissions tracking is a discrete, high-value capability that could be sold independently of the full suite.

Compounding for INPUT SOFT would likely manifest as a data moat and workflow lock-in. Each new airport deployment generates proprietary data on turnaround times, resource utilization, and delay causes within a specific operational context. This data, in turn, improves the AI models for predictive scenarios and benchmarking, making the product more valuable for the next, similar airport. The company's emphasis on AI-driven scenarios suggests an intent to build this feedback loop [Greencubator, 2023-2024]. Furthermore, once a ground handler's staff and processes are trained on a single system, the switching costs for a mission-critical operational platform become substantial, creating strong renewal motion.

The size of the win can be framed by looking at comparable infrastructure software providers. For example, a company achieving the "Regional Standard" scenario, capturing a meaningful share of the several hundred mid-sized airports in its target regions, could aim for a valuation profile similar to other vertical SaaS businesses. While no direct public comparable is cited in available sources, vertical SaaS companies in adjacent logistics and transportation sectors have historically commanded revenue multiples in the range of 6x-10x at scale. If INPUT SOFT were to reach $20M in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) under that scenario, a plausible outcome could be a company valued in the $120M to $200M range (scenario, not a forecast). This represents the premium investors place on software that becomes deeply embedded in essential, repeatable workflows.

Data Accuracy: YELLOW -- The core opportunity narrative is supported by company and partner claims from a single secondary source (Greencubator), with partial corroboration of pilot activity from a local news outlet. The growth scenarios are extrapolations from these cited partnerships.

Sources

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1. [PitchBook, Unknown] INPUT SOFT 2026 Company Profile: Valuation, Funding & Investors | https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/490729-24

2. [Perplexity Sonar Pro Brief, 2024] Input Soft Sonar Pro Brief | https://www.perplexity.ai/

3. [Greencubator, 2023-2024] IT ambassadors of sustainability in the aviation industry. The story of Input Soft | https://greencubator.ua/en/news/it-ambassadors-of-sustainability-in-the-aviation-industry-the-story-of-input-soft/

4. [Anastasiia Smyk LinkedIn, 2026] Anastasiia Smyk - INPUT SOFT | https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiia-smyk-94270a185/

5. [Valentyn Zavadskyi LinkedIn, 2026] Valentyn Zavadskyi - INPUT SOFT | https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentyn-zavadskyi-94270a185/

6. [AIN, 2023] Ukrainian aviation startup InputSoft raises $250k. SID Venture Partners is among the investors | https://en.ain.ua/2023/05/02/ukrainian-aviation-startup-inputsoft-raises-250k-sid-venture-partners-is-among-the-investors/

7. [dev.ua, Unknown] Ukrainian startup INPUT SOFT, which creates software for airports, has raised €500,000 from the EU | https://dev.ua/en/news/500-000-ievro-dlia-input-soft-1776159747

8. [TechUkraine, Unknown] Input Software joins Techstars and raised $120 000 | https://techukraine.org/2022/01/24/techukraine-news-inputsoft-joins-techstars-and-raised-120-000/

9. [Sigma Software Labs, Unknown] INPUT SOFT - Sigma Software Labs | https://labs.sigma.software/investment/input-soft/

10. [LIGA.net, Unknown] INPUT SOFT pilot projects at Ukrainian airports | https://liga.net/

11. [Wellfound, Unknown] Backend Lead Developer (core PHP + Node) | https://angel.co/toronto

12. [MarketsandMarkets, 2023] Airport Digital Transformation Market | https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/airport-digital-transformation-market-256091438.html

13. [Author note, Apr 2026] ZAS Ventures is an investor in Input Soft.