Extreme Bootcamp for defense-tech startups will be held in Ukraine — the winner will receive €500

A five-day Extreme Bootcamp program for startups in the field of defense technologies will be organized in Ukraine. The three best teams will share a prize fund of €1 million, and the winner will receive €500 of investment, writes ain.ua.

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Submission of applications will continue until June 7 via this link. According to the website of the organizers of the Darkstar project, they are looking for ten teams that already have combat tests of products on the Ukrainian front or will have them there within six months.

"We will help these teams grow, scale and accelerate their progress," the organizers write.

In the questionnaire, they are asked to tell more about the startup, as well as to indicate how exactly this program can help it. They write that the teams will work together with some of the best European unicorn founders at the camp.

What is known about the organizers

Darkstar is a coalition of over 20 founders, hackers and investors from Estonia, Ukraine, Germany, France and the UK. It turns out that they all share one goal — the development of an ecosystem of European defense technologies.

Estonian entrepreneur Ragnar Sass became the co-organizer of the camp. He told DOU that all partners share common values, and assured that they did not attract Russian capital and help the Ukrainian army.

"It was very easy for us to get consent from Estonian entrepreneurs, because in Estonia Russians jam GPS signals. For us, victory over them is also a matter of national security," he said.

They are looking for not only Ukrainian startups, but also European ones that could cooperate with Ukrainians and be useful on the battlefield. Ukrainian companies can also be helped to open a representative office in Estonia.

Priority is given to everything related to electronics and software, and which can be easily scaled. According to Sass, it is not necessary to have a product that has already gone into production, demo versions are also suitable.

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