About ZAGRAVA
2016
Education
ZAGRAVA began in Ukraine in 2016 as a business education platform for women entrepreneurs.
We created programs, workshops and practical tools for women building their own companies. Over the years, more than 3,000 women have taken part in our programs and initiatives.
2022
Community
As we worked together, we discovered that knowledge was only part of what women needed.
Entrepreneurship can be lonely. Some decisions are difficult to discuss with your team. Your family may care deeply about you and still see your challenges from a completely different perspective. And ambitious ideas need people around them who are willing to think just as boldly.
In 2022, ZAGRAVA evolved into a community where women could learn from one another, build relationships, exchange experience and create together.
2026
Global Movement
In 2026, we took the next step.
ZAGRAVA Women became ZAGRAVA Women Movement — an international movement for New World Women Founders.
What began in Ukraine is now bringing together women across countries, cultures and markets.
A community creates value for the people inside it.
We want to go further.
When the right women meet, a conversation can become a partnership. Experience from one country can solve a problem in another. An introduction can open a new market. Two founders can create something neither would have created alone.
And what begins between a few women can eventually create jobs, businesses, ideas and change far beyond the community itself.
We want women to benefit from ZAGRAVA. And we want the world to benefit from what these women create together.
That is why we became a movement.
Our Ukrainian roots have shaped us.
For almost a decade, we have worked with women building businesses through very different realities — economic change, uncertainty, displacement and war. We learned to adapt, rebuild, make decisions quickly and continue creating when circumstances change.
But Ukraine is one perspective, not the whole story.
A founder in New York, Kyiv, Stockholm, Lisbon or Warsaw sees different opportunities, works within different systems and solves problems in different ways. That difference is valuable.
ZAGRAVA is becoming international because we want access to those different ways of thinking — and we want women inside the movement to have access to them too.
No country has all the answers. No market has all the best practices. The wider the room becomes, the more each of us can see.
Founded by Gala Glow
Gala Glow is a Ukrainian serial entrepreneur, business strategist, researcher and international speaker with more than 20 years of entrepreneurial experience.
She has created eight ventures, built and led teams, developed business programs and worked with women entrepreneurs for years.
ZAGRAVA began as one of those businesses. What it became grew from a much more personal question.
The further Gala went as an entrepreneur, the more she understood the value of being surrounded by women who think boldly, take responsibility for their lives, remain curious and active, and are willing to step beyond what is considered normal or expected.
Women with whom you can discuss money, strategy, leadership and a difficult decision — and also travel, laugh, experiment, celebrate and enjoy life.
Because the right people do more than support us. They expand our thinking, introduce possibilities we could not see alone and sometimes turn one plus one into eleven.
This is the kind of international circle Gala is building through ZAGRAVA today.
And as a mother of two daughters, she has another reason to care about what comes next: she wants the next generation of women to inherit more choices — and to grow up seeing women who build wealth, lead, love, create, contribute and define a good life for themselves.
The future Gala wants for her daughters is the future ZAGRAVA chooses to start living now.
Our first international year is about building the foundation: bringing together the right women from different countries, helping them genuinely know one another, exchanging experience and creating the first collaborations across markets and industries.
From there, ZAGRAVA can grow into international projects, partnerships, events, travel, research, social initiatives and new businesses created by women inside the movement.
By 2028, we want ZAGRAVA to be a recognized international platform for New World Women Founders — known not simply for the number of women it connects, but for what becomes possible because those women met.
