After 2 years it's getting extremely clear that Ukraine can WIN only if all of the Free World will go ALL IN - changing from Peacetime TALK to WARTIME ACTION! This is why i am kick starting today Darkstar coalition together with 20+ unicorn founders, hackers & investors from Estonia, Ukraine, Germany, France and UK. Folks who have experience scaling ultra-fast companies like Skype, Bolt, Pipedrive, Wise, Canva or grow teams from 0 to 300 in 3 weeks in Covid times. This summer we will organize 5 days of Extreme Bootcamp for Defence Tech startups together with the best units of the Ukraine army! IN UKRAINE. We are looking up to 10 teams who have already products in the Ukraine frontline or will be there in 6 months. From Ukraine, Estonia or anywhere in the world! We will help teams to grow, scale and speed up everything. The top 3 teams will share an investment pool €1 million, with the winner receiving €0.5 million alone. Humanity have never seen WAR where technology is growing so fast - changing rules, and tactics every 3- 6 months. Where the most valuable soldiers are 20-year-old gamers turning into drone pilots! We need to ACT NOW - helping the most promising teams to scale in wartime speed!
Toms Atteka
2mo
Feels like honeypot operation or plain negligence! Do you even care about physical security of engineers!?
Is it still available to apply? If not, then would like to talk about the idea.
Artem Moroz
2mo
Happy to help in organizing that
Sofia Rud
2mo
I didn’t know Ivan, who’s in this photo, is a part of it, is he? 😍
Amazing initiative Ragnar Sass ! I’m sure some of our hackers will want to participate
Howlader Sabuj
2mo
Support war to stop it , not to continue to add fuels to it which ends up killing talent young people in both side. War is never a solution, look back into history to learn.
Executive Director U.S National AI and Cybersecurity ISAO | Cybersecurity Executive | vCISO | Board Advisor | Speaker | CDPSE | Top 0.5% Crunchbase Global
2moThis initiative is fantastic! Carlo Tortora Brayda & Jason Keller, MA - I think this is aligned with our mission, and I would love to have a dialog with them. Our network has access to thousands of VCs and possibly billions of dollars of funding; we should be able to have a positive impact. Also copying Michael Kuiper, Santiago Holley, and Jesse Levin due to possible interest on their end.