Battle-Tested Tech: Investing in the Future of Defense
The session’s core message was that investing in Ukrainian defense technology is not a conventional venture theme retrofitted for wartime; it is a mission-driven response to an immediate survival problem, where battlefield urgency can translate into exceptional company-building outcomes. Eveline Buchatskiy explained that her fund was launched directly because of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With a venture capital background, she and her team concluded Ukraine could not win through conventional systems alone and needed an “asymmetrical technological advantage.” Because no traditional VC was willing to operate on the ground in Ukraine at the time, they opened an office in Kyiv and raised capital from American and European investors, deliberately signaling that Ukraine was investable.
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