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European VC breaks taboo by investing in pure defense tech from Ukraine’s war zones


With a fundraising target of €25 million, Darkstar’s goal is to help startups bring battle-tested products to military customers both in Ukraine and throughout Europe.

Darkstar GPs Kaspar Gering, Philip Jungen and Ragnar Sass with Farsight Vision CEO Viktoriia Yaremchuk Image Credits: DarkstarSass is applying a similar location philosophy to defense investing. Sass is joined by Estonia-based GPs Kaspar Gering, who spent a decade at Wise in engineering and data science roles, and Mart Noorma, director of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence(on the left in the main picture). A former LATAM & Media Editor at The Next Web, startup founder and Sciences Po Paris alum, she’s fluent in multiple languages, including French, English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

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