Europe Can Learn From Ukraine How To Build Effective Defense Solutions On Smaller Budgets Defense Builder CEO
"Europe has much to learn from Ukraine, particularly how to create highly effective solutions with significantly smaller budgets. I am often surprised that European startups at the same stage raise three to five times more funding without producing better results. The reason is simple: Europe operates in peacetime, while in Ukraine this is not about profit – it is about survival," Rindvig said.
She believes the fundamental difference is that for Ukrainians, innovation is a matter of survival, whereas in the West it is a business activity.
Read also: US start-up plans to send new humanoid military robots to Ukraine – mediaOverall, the expert stressed that cooperation is "critically important" for both sides. While Ukrainian companies gain opportunities to form joint ventures with European partners, scale production in a safer environment, and access supply chains, European companies can test their solutions in Ukraine, receive real battlefield feedback, and understand what it means to develop defense technologies that must work against a real enemy – Russia.
The Defense Builder startup accelerator mainly works with Ukrainian companies but also has several European partners from Denmark and Estonia, who offer solutions needed by frontline defenders that are not yet available in Ukraine.
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