CEO of Svitla Systems Natalia Anon is an angel investor in the Ukrainian miltech sector, as she believes that this area is the future of the domestic IT industry.
CEO of Svitla Systems Natalia Anon is an angel investor in the Ukrainian miltech sector, as she believes that this area is the future of the domestic IT industry.
«I’m not just observing this market, I’m also an angel investor in these technologies. I have some contact with this and I see that a huge, wide field is being created now — many startups, young companies, a large number of them are successful,» Natalia Anon said in an interview with dev.ua.
The CEO of Svitla Systems drew parallels with the United States of America during World War II.
«All these enterprises that started working for Defense and the military, after the end of the war, became the industrial base of the United States and gave a huge boost to the economy,» she noted.
Anon did not name specific products or projects in which she has invested in this area, but noted that it is mostly software.
«As an IT company, we understand how to promote software in this area, so my main focus is on software that is relevant, whether in drone control or in the same electronic warfare solutions,» she explained.
Earlier, in an interview with dev.ua, the head of the TSU, Kateryna Mykhalko, reported that the Verkhovna Rada is working on a draft law on arms exports, which should lay the foundations for legislative regulation of this process.
We also wrote that a series of free hackathons will start in August for engineers, technical students, scientists, startups, and developers who work or want to work in the miltech field.
