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Picture: Michael, Stefan and Sebastian with Yan Shapiro from U-Nation Accelerator Odesa in a press conference at Ukraine Media Center Odesa, June 2023.
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Industrial Insights: November 2025
ukraine.saxony.tech 2025
Closer than we think
Saxony, Germany. ukraine.saxony.tech 2025 brought Ukrainian tech and industrial companies together with Saxon partners in a closed, industry-focused format. The event was initiated by Dresden-based Gigahertz Ventures, co-founder and shareholder of ua.ventures, and implemented together with SAXONY!visit (Saxony Trade & Invest).
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GovTech Insights: October 2025
Cross-Border GovTech: Berlin–Kyiv Workshop Insights
Berlin, Germany. On 15 October 2025, ua.ventures took part in the Berlin–Kyiv GovTech Innovation Workshop at the GovTech Campus Deutschland, where ua.ventures Managing Director Michael Hübner joined a fireside chat on cross-border GovTech.
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GovTech Insights: Sept/Oct 2025
Kitsoft at the 2025 SSCON Smart Country Convention
Berlin, Germany. From 30 September to 2 October 2025, ua.ventures supported Kitsoft Germany at SCCON25, showcasing Diia-proven digital public infrastructure and smart-capital engagement.
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Innovation Insights: September 2025
Ukraine’s Tech Resilience at IT Arena 2025
Lviv, Ukraine. ua.ventures joined Lviv IT Arena for the third year in a row — with a focused side event on How to Raise your Your First 100k and plenty of energy (and fun) at this year’s Pitch to the Beat 2.0.
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Industrial Insights: September, 2025
What Europe’s Defense-Tech Inflection Point Looks Like on the Ground
Lviv, Ukraine. Michael from ua.ventures joined the 2025 Defense Tech Valley Summit in Lviv. This article cuts into the industry dynamics, Europe’s dual-use tech trajectory, and where the opportunities lie for angels and VCs.
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Industrial Insights: July 2025
Ukrainian and Berlin-Brandenburg Entrepreneurs Meet in Berlin
Berlin, 8-10 July, 2025. This July, we had the pleasure of co-organizing and co-hosting the highly successful Deep Dive Ukraine & Germany: Automotive & Tech event in Berlin. The closed-door event brought together around 50 highly engaged participants from the Ukrainian and Berlin-Brandenburg automotive and tech sectors.
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Innovation Insights: May 2025
Borodianka and the Fine Balance of Trust and Control
Borodianka / Kyiv. Borodianka, a small town northwest of Kyiv, shows what resilience means: rebuilding fast, decentralized—in both tech and decision-making—and with active trust. For investors, it offers a glimpse into where innovation and decentralization turn into real potential.
Picture: Gymnast by Banksy. Borodianka, May 2025 © ua.ventures
Innovation Insights: Sept/Oct 2024
Innovation & Angel Investment Scouting Ukraine 2024
Kyiv / Odesa / Mykolaiv / Lviv. We once again traveled through Ukraine to support start-ups. We attended the IT Arena tech conference in Lviv and held workshops and discussions with founders, government officials, and politicians in Kyiv, Odesa, and Mykolaiv.
Picture: Street art in Kyiv, October 2024. Source © ua.ventures
Innovation Insights: July 2024
Workshop on Early-Stage Investments in Ukraine
Berlin. Sebastian and Stefan were invited to moderate a workshop on early-stage and angel investments in Ukraine at „Innovationen für den Wiederaufbau der Ukraine“ (Innovations for Reconstructing Ukraine).
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Industrial Insights: June 2024
Smart Water Ukraine
Berlin. The supply of water and drinking water to the population and industry in contested and destroyed areas plays a vital role in sustaining life. Our event Ukraimpulse Deep Dive #1 Smart Water Ukraine addressed this topic.
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Innovation Insights: March 2024
Ukrainian Startups in Berlin and Dresden
Berlin / Dresden. Jointly with the Czech initiative "Invest in Bravery," we enabled Ukrainian startups to travel to Berlin for their participation at the BACB Pitching Day, followed by a visit of Dresden, meeting the Dresden and Saxon startup scene.
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Innovation Analytics: December 2023
Business Angels and Reconstructing Ukraine
Kyiv / Berlin / Dresden. Can European business angels already play a role in reconstructing Ukraine today? For answering this question, we travelled to Ukraine to meet multiple stakeholders of the early-stage startup ecosystem. Our report summarizes valuable key findings of 40+ in-person meetings in Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa from May to December 2023.
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Innovation Insights: December 2023
Co-event with U-Nation in Odesa
Odesa. Just a few days before Christmas, we supported the 2023 Final Conference of U-Nation and the Odesa IT Family in Odesa as sponsors and speakers. This time, we contributed a workshop on "Investing in Startups: Main Criteria for European Investors."
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Innovation Insights: December 2023
Workshop with Kharkiv IT Cluster on Angel Investing
Kharkiv. At the invitation of the Kharkiv IT Cluster association, we participated in the 2023 General Meeting. There, we also had the opportunity to share our insights in a workshop titled “Business Angels in Germany and Europe: Case Study Gigahertz Ventures.” It was our second visit to Kharkiv in 2023.
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Innovation Insights: September 2023
Lecture at Lviv IT Arena 2023 delivered
Lviv. The Lviv IT Arena is currently the largest tech event in Ukraine. Naturally, we were there.
Sebastian delivered a fantastic and very well-attended (60-minute) lecture on the experiences of developing business angels in Germany and Europe. Furthermore, together with Stefan (Ukraimpulse / ua.ventures) and Mikko-Pekka Hanski from Finland (moderated by Ivan Dmytrasevych from Lviv Startup Depot), we were able to share insights into the angel world on the topic "Crafting an Exit Strategy: Insights for Business Angels" with our Ukrainian peers during a panel discussion.
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Innovation Insights: September 2023
Angel Investment Scoping Continued: Kharkiv
Kharkiv. The next stage of the scoping mission took us to Kharkiv. The city at the front line faces unique challenges. At the same time, it is the intellectual center of the country, with outstanding universities and research institutions.
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Innovation Insights: May 2023
Angel Investment Scoping Ukraine 2023: Lviv, Bucha, Kyiv, Odesa
Ukraine. Following an intense year of emergency humanitarian project work in 2022, we asked ourselves in early 2023: Can German, European (and other) business angels contribute to Ukraine‘s recovery already today?
We answered our guiding question by travelling to Ukraine and by learning about the Ukrainian business angel community and its context by talking to relevant peers and stakeholders in various regions of Ukraine.
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Humanitarian: March 2022 - March 2023
Looking Back at 2022: Humanitarian Projects
Ukraine / Germany. We started our humanitarian work immediately when the war began—and by early March 2022, just two weeks into the invasion, we were already on the ground in Ukraine. Here we share those activities.
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