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About Wiseboard Defense

We have built defense in Ukraine. Now we fund it and scaleย it.

Wiseboard Defense connects combat-proven Ukrainian companies with global capital, export-readiness and real scale abroad. We are not analysts writing about this industry from the outside โ€” we came out ofย it.

Where we come from

Raised beside the first 'wings'

Our story starts in 2015, on the production line of a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone that would become one of the most recognized in the country. We helped stand it up, recruited the team behind it, and worked alongside partners like Boeing and Antonov. We learned how a defense product actually gets built, certified and shipped โ€” long before it was a market.

In 2022 we launched a hub for vetted makers of military equipment, weapons and everything around them โ€” a platform that verifies defense producers in the rear and connects them with what they need to build and scale. We watched dozens of companies prove their technology on the battlefield, then stall the moment they tried to raise capital or sell abroad.

In 2023 that experience became Wiseboard โ€” a transformational business accelerator. We transformed more than 100 companies, from early-stage startups to some of Ukraine's largest telecom and retail brands, across sales, operations, compliance and growth, building the full operating expertise it takes to help defense-tech stand up as a real industry. Wiseboard Defense is that expertise pointed at the problem we know best: turning a combat-proven Ukrainian company into a funded, export-ready business the world can invest in.

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How we got here

Ten years in one industry

  1. 2015

    On the line

    We help stand up production for a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone that becomes one of the country's most recognized, working alongside international primes.

  2. 2022

    The manufacturers' hub

    We launch a hub for vetted makers of military equipment, weapons and everything around them โ€” verifying producers in the rear and connecting them with what they need to scale.

  3. 2023

    The accelerator

    We launch Wiseboard as a transformational business accelerator โ€” 100+ companies, from early-stage startups to Ukraine's largest telecom and retail brands โ€” building the full expertise it takes to serve defense-tech as an industry.

  4. 2025Now

    Wiseboard Defense

    In strategic partnership with UFG, we point that expertise at defense-tech in full โ€” connecting combat-proven Ukrainian companies with global capital, from a first check to scale abroad.

Why we do it

The technology is already here. Capital is the gap.

Ukrainian defense-tech is proven where it matters most. What it lacks is not ideas or capacity โ€” it is access to global capital and the right to sell abroad. Ukraine's production capacity reached about $35 billion in 2025, while disclosed equity investment was a small fraction of it. We exist to close that gap โ€” and to keep the expertise, the IP and the production in Ukraine while we do.

โ€œUkraine can become one of the defense arsenals of the free world. Our job is to make it investable.โ€

Who's behind it

Operators, not spectators

Wiseboard Defense is run by people who have built, certified and scaled defense products in Ukraine โ€” backed by a bench of aerospace, investment and export specialists.

Defense operators

A founding team that has stood up drone production, worked with international primes, and supported Ukrainian manufacturers through the war.

Capital & aerospace bench

Aerospace and defense specialists with direct relationships to international VCs, family offices and strategic acquirers.

UFG partnership

A strategic partnership with UFG opens warm access to global institutional capital and a track record in MilTech dealmaking.

The team

The people accountable to you

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Artur Fedorenko
Founder & CEO
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Myroslav Khmarskyi
Head of Legal
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Yaroslav Chupryna
Head of Finance
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Kyrylo Proskurnya
Head of Security & Compliance
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Artur Fedorenko, Founder & CEO of Wiseboard
Founder

โ€œI have spent a decade inside Ukrainian defense โ€” on the production line, with the manufacturers, and now with the capital. Wiseboard Defense is everything I wish these companies had the moment they were ready to scale and couldn't.โ€

Artur Fedorenko
Founder & CEO, Wiseboard
Partners & ecosystem

The network behind the work

Wiseboard Defense works inside a network of capital, cluster and manufacturing partners โ€” the reach a single company can't build alone.

Strategic partner
UFG

Our strategic partner. Warm access to global institutional capital, family offices and strategic acquirers through the UFG network โ€” with a track record across MilTech dealmaking.

Ecosystem & manufacturing partners
IRON Cluster
Techosystem Defense
BazaIT Defense
LemBS Defense
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Work with us

Tell us where you stand

One call to map your fastest path to capital, export-readiness and scale abroad. A direct read on where you stand โ€” no pitch.

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