16 October 2025

Berlin–Kyiv GovTech Innovation Workshop

Investor Takeaways From a Rapidly Shifting Sector

On 15 October 2025, ua.ventures participated in the Berlin–Kyiv GovTech Innovation Workshop at GovTech Campus Deutschland, co-organized by GovStack (ITU, GIZ, Estonia, DIAL), GGTC Kyiv, and the Hertie School.
 Michael Hübner, Managing Director at ua.ventures and Kitsoft Germany GmbH, joined the fireside chat moderated by Tamara Beresh, discussing the operational barriers and practical opportunities of cross-border GovTech.


ua.ventures is a shareholder of Kitsoft Germany GmbH. Kitsoft is one of the core engineering contributors behind Ukraine’s Diia ecosystem and its underlying digital public infrastructure.

Key takeaways:

• Ukraine’s GovTech is export-ready. A real Ukrainian GovTech Challenge formed the core of the workshop. The takeaway: Ukraine’s DPI components are mature, interoperable, and transferable to EU environments without conceptual redesign.

• Germany has a scaling problem, not a technology problem. German participants highlighted fragmented architectures and the “pilot trap.” Openness toward importing proven external building blocks is increasing.

• GovStack is becoming the shared operational model. The hands-on session showed GovStack used as a practical workflow tool, not a theoretical framework — reducing integration and procurement risk.

• Ukrainian engineering teams operate with higher execution velocity. Mixed groups revealed faster convergence on solutions, driven by practical DPI implementation experience.

• Small, challenge-based formats drive real cooperation. The workshop design created alignment before procurement — a critical enabler in GovTech.

Inside the Workshop

Around 15 participants — founders, engineers, policymakers — worked through concrete problems rather than abstract policy.
In the fireside chat, Michael Hübner outlined the core structural gap: Germany has institutional demand; Ukraine has execution capacity.


The missing link is a structured corridor between both ecosystems, which is exactly why Kitsoft Germany GmbH was established with ua.ventures as shareholder.

The GovStack challenge session made the practical contrast visible: Ukrainian teams moved quickly to workable prototypes, while German participants centred on organisational constraints. This difference is operational and directly relevant for assessing delivery risk.

Picture © GIZ 2025

Why it Matters for ua.ventures

The workshop confirmed three market signals:

• German institutions are increasingly open to interoperable, international DPI solutions.
• Ukraine’s GovTech capabilities are sufficiently mature for EU-scale deployment.
• GovStack is emerging as a cross-border standard, making scaling more predictable.

This reinforces our investment logic and validates our role in co-building Kitsoft Germany GmbH:
the most scalable GovTech solutions in Europe will emerge where Ukraine’s speed meets Germany’s structural demand.