Press Coverage
Andy Kurtzig, JustAnswer CEO on CNN International
March 9, 2023
Andy Kurtzig, CEO of JustAnswer speaking to Julia Chatterley on CNN International the day Russia sent 81 missiles to Ukraine, including Lviv, where Andy is this week. 5 people were killed in Lviv from the missile strike. Andy is once again working form the bomb shelter basement with his team.
A first-of-its-kind mental health center aims to heal as ‘part of our survival’
March 5, 2023
"This is not some makeshift operation," JustAnswer founder and CEO Andy Kurtzig told USA TODAY. A bulk of the costs to construct the mental health center in Lviv came from Kurtzig and his wife Sara's nonprofit the Arizae Foundation.
Some Silicon Valley Companies Tied to Ukraine Remain Optimistic
March 2, 2023
Andy Kurtzig, CEO of the San Francisco-based online expert platform JustAnswer, has about 315 employees based in Ukraine.
“We’re fairly well-prepared,” Kurtzig said. “We do have generators at our offices. We do have Starlink’s internet at our offices. And so it’s interesting — a lot of our employees, and their families, even, come to our office when the power goes out because they can take a hot shower and they, you know, charge their devices, and be warm.”
February 24, 2023
Silicon Valley founder Andy Kurtzig returns to Ukraine one year after the invasion.
February 26, 2023
February 24, 2023
Kurtzig states, “It’s been a whirlwind year since Russia attacked Ukraine. I’m feeling mixed emotions today. Many people thought Russia would win in 3 days, so I’m proud of Ukraine for not only surviving but rising to this challenge! However, this is also a very sad day for me, because I’m disappointed that this unjust war and unprovoked attacks continue with no end in sight. Please keep supporting Ukraine!”
MVFF Documentary Highlights Ukraine's Freedom Fight
October 10, 2022
“Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom” will be screened Mill Valley’s CinéArts Sequoia (25 Throckmorton Ave) at 3:35 p.m. Tuesday and 12:45 p.m. Wednesday.
The screening is presented by the Arizae Foundation, a nonprofit that’s raising funds to provide humanitarian relief to the eastern European nation.
San Francisco tech company helps Ukraine
October 10, 2022
A San Francisco-based tech company is sending help to Ukraine in the midst of the most recent Russian attack Monday that killed at least 14 people and injured many others.
“Just bummed. I woke up this morning and saw the news and was just disappointed with how Russia and Putin are treating the Ukrainians,” said Kurtzig.
JustAnswer Announces Opening of National Mental Health Center in Ukraine Providing Free Professional Help for PTSD and Trauma-Related Conditions
October 6, 2022
New 5,000-square foot facility will offer free services from professional psychotherapists and psychiatrists for more than 15,000 people before year-end, 40,000 in 2023
San Francisco company opening mental health center, drone pilot school in Ukraine
September 30, 2022
Russia’s war on Ukraine has negatively affected the mental health of those living there, compelling a San Francisco-based company to provide help.
JustAnswer, an online platform that connects people with experts for professional advice has funded the JustAnswer National Mental Health Center in Lviv, set to open next week.
SF-Based Company to Open Mental Health Center, Drone Training School in Ukraine
September 22, 2022
As Russian President Vladimir Putin announces he will mobilize up to 300,000 additional troops to fight in Ukraine, a San Francisco-based company is stepping up efforts to help the war-ravaged country.
In less than two weeks, Just Answer plans to open a new mental health center in Ukraine as well as a drone training school for soldiers.
Silicon Valley Tech Firm Sets Up Mental Health Center in Ukraine
July 15, 2022
Silicon Valley-based tech company Just Answer is creating a public mental health center in Lviv, Ukraine. Andriy Chemes, a senior executive with JustAnswer.
Mental Health Center Promises Help for Ukrainians Traumatized by War
July 7, 2022
A U.S. health care company says Ukrainians traumatized by the conflict will soon benefit from the opening of a mental health center in the western city of Lviv in the coming months.
Ukraine is building its own Iron Dome. This US company is key
June 20, 2022
A U.S. company is helping Ukraine build a missile defense system – its own version of Israel's Iron Dome – to prevent Russian rockets from striking its populace.
Proposed Ukraine Iron Dome could be present-day ‘Star Wars’ air-defense system for war-ravaged country
June 16, 2022
Four decades later, JustAnswer Chief Executive Andy Kurtzig and the Lviv IT Cluster are developing what they call the Ukraine Iron Dome, a mobile, all-weather air-defense structure designed to intercept and destroy rockets and artillery shells coming from Russia.
Marin high schools auction peace signs to benefit Ukrainians
June 3, 2022
When the war in Ukraine broke out in February, the impact was felt around the globe, even more than 6,000 miles away in Marin.
That’s when fraternal twins Samantha and Charlotte Gerner, San Anselmo residents and sophomores at Archie Williams High School, decided they had to do something to help.
How One Marin Family Is Supporting Ukraine
June 1, 2022
For Andy and Sara Kurtzig, who have ties to Ukraine and lived there in 2019 with their three kids, the decision to skip spring break in Hawaii and instead bring all the supplies they could carry to the war-ravaged country started with the words of their 17-year-old daughter.
“Mom, I really think we should go to the border,” young Jamie said.
San Anselmo Family Forms Turnkey Movement to Raise Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
June 1, 2022
The Kurtzigs, who took a break from their life in San Anselmo to reside in Ukraine in 2019, have very strong connections to the embattled country. Their tech business, Just Answer, has offices in Ukraine and employs more than 250 of its citizens.
Marin County High School Students Turn Art into Humanitarian Aid for Ukraine
May 27, 2022
“Students for Peace” benefit at College of Marin June 18th will spotlight Ukrainian arts and culture and feature auction of one-of-a-kind peace signs created by local students
Mill Valley Ukraine Benefit Concert Features Star-Studded Lineup
May 4, 2022
The event is presented by the Arizae Foundation, a Marin-based nonprofit founded by San Anselmo couple Andy and Sara Kurtzig.
Tech CEO and family spend spring break helping colleagues in war-ravaged Ukraine
April 19, 2022
Their mission: to deliver bags stuffed with much-needed medical supplies and military gear, including body armor, night-vision goggles, and drones.
Tech CEO on Ukraine mission, pleads US for businesses to step up
April 13, 2022
Tech CEO, Andy Kurtzig, brings family to Ukraine border to deliver supplies to refugees.
@justanswer CEO Andy Kurtzig and his family traveled to provide aid to refugees
April 12, 2022
“We couldn’t bear the idea of going somewhere tropical for Spring break while our team in #Ukraine is suffering."
For this CEO, taking a trip to Ukraine now is personal and professional
April 8, 2022
The founder/CEO of JustAnswer offers an impassioned plea to U.S. businesses to step up, get creative, and move beyond promises and pledges to help Ukraine.
Andy Kurtzig and his family spend spring break at a destination most are fleeing.
April 6, 2022
JustAnswer’s Andy Kurtzig plans to bring family to border with Ukraine, then sneak in with medical supplies and protective gear for employees.
Marin residents trek for Ukraine war relief efforts
April 2, 2022
The family plans to fly to the Ukrainian borders to provide aid to employees and an office in Uzhhorod, a city in western Ukraine. The city of 100,000 had swelled to about 350,000 people as of last week as refugees pour in, Kurtzig said.
SF company with hundreds of employees in Ukraine raises $210k in donations
March 20, 2022
Since the Russian invasion, Kurtzig said his company had been closely communicating with workers there to understand what was happening and how to be supportive.
How Companies Are Aiding the Ukrainian Relief Efforts, From Supporting Refugees to Funding the Armed Forces
March 8, 2022
JustAnswer, which has about a quarter of its workforce in Ukraine, set up a crisis fund, which will go toward the Ukrainian armed forces and refugees, with donations facilitated by the Ukrainian charity Lviv ІТ Cluster.
How a San Francisco tech company is supporting its 250-plus workers in Ukraine: ‘This is personal’
March 8, 2022
For the last two weeks, Andy Kurtzig’s days have been punctuated by emergency phone calls and urgent email updates from his team in Ukraine.
Tech Workers in Ukraine Put Down Keyboards and Pick Up Rifles, Execs Say
March 6, 2022
Andy Kurtzig, the CEO of JustAnswer.com, said that tech employees in Ukraine are doing their part to fight back against the invasion of their country.
Tech companies around the world depend on Ukrainian workers. Now they’re trying to help them.
March 3, 2022
JustAnswer has been preparing for the possibility of war for years. Kurtzig said that included printing out documents so they’d have backups of employment and lease agreements, backing up data to U.S. servers and buying diesel generators and satellite phones.
Ukraine's tech community rises to challenges of war.
March 2, 2022
Via a Google Meet, Stepan Veselovskyi, chief executive of Lviv IT Cluster, a tech community that unites nearly 200 companies in the city in western Ukraine, showed BBC News around his office - now full of key supplies such as medicines, bedding, and food.
US tech company in Ukraine: Employees volunteer to fight Russia.
February 26, 2022
A handful of San Francisco-based JustAnswer employees in Ukraine immediately volunteered to join Ukraine's military in defending the nation against Russian forces, CEO Andy Kurtzig told FOX Business. "Our people want to fight for their freedom. And, they’re willing to die for their country," he said.
'We are committed to Ukraine': Tech companies rush to protect their Ukrainian workers
February 25, 2022
Having a flexible plan is key, Kurtzig said. JustAnswer’s plan has varying tiers depending on the severity of the situation. Personal safety of employees is the most important consideration, so JustAnswer is covering relocation costs. At least seven employees have already chosen to move to western Ukraine to avoid Russia’s troops.
Tech firms with employees in Ukraine spring emergency plans into place
February 24, 2022
As rumors began to spread of power outages, cyberattacks and tanks rolling into eastern Ukraine, JustAnswer.com CEO Andy Kurtzig convened his employees in the invaded country on a conference call to put emergency plans in place.
Just before Russia launched its assault on Ukraine in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Kurtzig addressed some 260 employees on evacuation and first aid training.
Ukrainians, Supporters Gather In San Francisco To Condemn Russian Attack on Homeland
February 24, 2022
JustAnswer CEO Andy Kurtzig has more than 270 employees in Ukraine. His company has spent weeks buying satellite phones and new ISPs and moving people and their families from Eastern Ukraine to the west near the Polish border to keep them safe. “Their lives are in danger right now,” Kurtzig said.
Bay Area tech companies work to protect workers in Ukraine
February 23, 2022
Andy Kurtzig is the founder of San Francisco-based justanswer.com. For him, the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is personal. 260 of his workers live there. “For example, we have a 5 threat level plan, right now at the threat level, we’re actively moving people from the east to the west,” Kurtzig said.
Tech employers in Ukraine are preparing for the worst, including using crypto instead of cash
February 22, 2022
As one of 260 employees of online advice platform JustAnswer in Ukraine, Nadiya Semen starts every day at work in Lviv, Ukraine, monitoring the news, making sure emergency provisions are in place and generally hoping for the best.
Why Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Is Personal for Silicon Valley
February 24, 2022
JustAnswer, a San Francisco-based tech company that employs 252 people in Ukraine, also has been working on contingency plans to keep its workers safe, make sure they get paid — and handle workers who want to serve in Ukraine's military, according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
JustAnswer takes precautions amid threat of invasion.
February 22, 2022
"We're committed to Ukraine. We're going to stay in Ukraine. In fact, we are going to grow in Ukraine."
- JustAnswer.com CEO, Andy Kurtzig.
How Russia invading Ukraine affects the workforce of S.F. companies
February 22, 2022
JustAnswer is among many Silicon Valley companies with large complements of workers in Ukraine. Now U.S. companies like JustAnswer are quickly revising contingency plans to protect their workers and businesses. “We put together a crisis committee for this,” said JustAnswer CEO Andy Kurtzig.
Bay Area tech company shows support for Ukraine.
February 22, 2022
San Francisco-based company, JustAnswer, offers to support relocation of 19 employees and their family members from Kyiv to neighboring nations and paid time off.
How an SF company is working to protect workers in Ukraine.
February 18, 2022
Hundreds of a San Francisco company's workers are in Ukraine. Here's how the CEO's trying to protect his employees amid threats of a Russian invasion.
