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Pre-seed / seed · Components, not end-products · Ukraine & allies
We have been here the whole time
Capital is rushing toward Ukrainian dual-use technology from the outside. We built, invested and lived through the cycle that produced it, long before the money arrived.
2007First investment
1stInvestor in Sine Engineering, well before the others
$10–15MTarget fund size
We are not claiming an empty field
The positionFunds of every size are active in Ukrainian dual-use now, most of them arriving once the category had a name. The gap is not who got here first, but who understands what they are looking at. We learned to read it before anyone named it.
What we back
Focus & structureStage
Pre-seed and seed, with selective early Series A follow-on via reserves. It is the round that companies founded in the past four years now reach, as angel checks stop carrying them.
Geography
Ukraine-first, with roughly three-quarters of capital. The remainder is open to allied markets, whose defense budgets are now opening to suppliers based outside their own borders.
Sectors
Underlying technology — components, sensing, compute, software — dual-use by nature: built for defense-grade conditions, transferable to adjacent commercial markets.
Check size
$250K initial; up to $500K for later-stage opportunities within the portfolio, plus reserves for follow-on.
Excludes
Weapons and munitions, drones and other finished defense end-products, and anything without a credible path to customers beyond the Ukrainian market — whether through civilian dual-use applications or export to allied defense markets.
Target size$10–15M
Target deals15–20 companies
Reserve ratio~40% of fund
Investment period2–3 years (target)
VehicleAngelList fund
Portfolio
Three companies · October 2026DoD Solution
Operating as AURA. The autonomy stack that goes into unmanned aerial, ground and maritime systems: sensing, compute, software.
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The name
Wild Field — the historical Ukrainian frontier: contested, ungoverned territory where survival depended on adaptability, not institutional backing. That is the environment our portfolio companies build in today.
People
Partners & advisors
Lead GP
Runs the fund and its investment decisions; an investor for nearly two decades.
Anchor LP
Tech co-founder who brings deal flow, co-decides and co-invests with the fund.
Maksym Zubenko
Venture partner
Growth and go-to-market. 10+ years in tech, ex-Jooble, ex-Reply.io; Chief Growth Officer at Dwarf Engineering.
LinkedIn
Andriy Chulyk
Advisor
Co-founder and CEO of Sine Engineering. 20+ years in telecom, hardware and IoT; ex-co-founder of Movably.
LinkedIn
Advisor
Serial tech founder and engineer; advises on technical review.
Andriy Zvirko
Advisor
Chief Strategy Officer at Sine Engineering. Built and brought to market ecosystems scaled to millions of users (Fixly.pl, OLX.ua).
LinkedIn
Advisor
Software founder and AI executive; advises on AI strategy.
Yurii Stasinchuk
Advisor
Co-founder and CEO of FoxFour. DARPA competition winner; publications at ICRA and in Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
LinkedInWhat we bring
Beyond the checkEverything below runs through the same technical bench: engineers and operators who assess dual-use hardware and software against real battlefield conditions. That is their day job. The list is short, and it is the whole list — there is no platform team behind it.
Technical review
They look at the product itself before we invest: what it does, how it is built, whether it holds up where it is meant to be used.
End-customer validation
Introductions to the people who operate this class of technology in the field, so product decisions are tested in use.
Access that does not end at the check
The same people stay reachable afterwards, for specific problems as they come up.
Questions
Before you writeDo you lead rounds?
No. We write $250K, up to $500K at later stages, alongside a lead.
Do you follow on?
Yes. About 40% of the fund is held in reserve for it. The point of being early is to still be there when the rounds get larger and outside capital arrives.
Do you take a board seat?
No.
Do I need a warm introduction?
No. Cold email is read.
How long does it take?
A week to the first reply. After that it depends on the technical review. We do not sit on decisions.
We build a finished product — a drone. Are you the wrong fund?
Yes. We back what goes into the platform, not the platform itself. The full line is under What we back.
We are not in Ukraine. Should we still write?
A quarter of the fund is open to allied markets, provided the technology is the same class.
What should the first email say?
What the technology is, who uses it, and what stage you are raising at. If there is hardware, something of it working beats a slide describing it.
Cross the field · a one-minute game
Most companies never get across
Between the first check and scale is the stretch investors call the valley of death, and most runways run out on it. Take one company across, and see what changes when someone who knows the ground goes with it.
The game is all motion, so it stays off while reduced motion is on.
Get to Unicorn before the runway runs out
- You are the green square. Steer with the mouse or ↑ ↓.
- Each line you cross is a costly call. Fewer lines, longer runway.
- The blue squares are us. Pick them up.
New best
Most companies never get across. The ones we back do not cross alone: the first check, the follow-on, and the help in between.
Help from the fund:
- more runway
- the way with fewest lines
- costs halved for a while