Brave1 launches Investor Circle — investor community meetups in the metaverse

Last week, the state defence tech cluster Brave1 launched Investor Circle, a new format for meetings of the investor community. The initiative was announced by Artem Moroz, Head of Investment at Brave1.

Investor Circle is a series of virtual meetups where investors, alongside Brave1 representatives and entrepreneurs, dive into a specific topic. “This could be a particular technology, deal structures, or trends in defence tech company valuations,” Moroz explains.

He noted that Investor Circle meetings take place in the metaverse. According to the organisers, this format strengthens connections between participants and enables them to find co-investors for projects.

The first Investor Circle session featured Yuliia Myrna, Head of the Brave1 Market project. She shared insights into modern digitalised procurement practices, high-quality feedback collection from the military, and data on manufacturers — all of which help assess the real potential of technologies.

Artem Moroz also outlined the reasons behind launching this new format. “I regularly see hundreds of millions of euros being invested in companies whose products fail on the battlefield. Or businesses that systematically lag behind the real needs of technological warfare becoming unicorns,” he wrote. “One of the key reasons is that international investors often make decisions based on distorted or superficial information.”

According to Moroz, ecosystem initiatives like Investor Circle aim to change this paradigm — specifically by “simplifying access to real signals from the battlefield and explaining how to interpret them correctly when evaluating defence tech companies.”