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The War's Last Startup Boom

Ukraine's drone startup ecosystem is the largest concentration of defense-tech talent in Europe — more than 2,000 teams registered in the Brave1 cluster alone, built in four years of war out of workshops, volunteers, and crowdfunding. Through 2025–2026 the ecosystem professionalized: veteran founders went industrial, foreign capital arrived with actual term sheets, and "fund my drone" gave way to institutional rounds. The 2027–2030 question is brutal and simple — what happens to 2,000 teams when demand normalizes.

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