{"id":20562,"date":"2026-01-14T18:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/?p=20562"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:17:10","slug":"ucdi-investor-club-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/2026\/01\/ucdi-investor-club-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry launches the UCDI Investor Club. Its first project is a Ukrainian defence tech dealbook"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/tags\/ucdi\/\">The Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry<\/a> has announced the launch of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucdi.org.ua\/news-ua\/ucdi-investor-club-ukr\/\">UCDI Investor Club<\/a> \u2014 a platform that connects institutional investors with Ukrainian defence companies. The club already includes 15 investment funds specialising in defence investments: Darkstar VC, UA1, D3 VC, Defence Builder &amp; Defender Ventures, MITS Capital, Resist.UA, Baryon Investment Fund, Double Tap Investments, Miltech Capital, Green Flag Ventures, Freedom Fund, Varangians, Angel One, and Nezlamni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Ihor Fedirko, Executive Director of the Ukrainian Council of Defence Industry, Ukraine\u2019s defence tech remains undervalued from an investment perspective. The club\u2019s goal is to attract investment into Ukraine\u2019s defence ecosystem, support cooperation on deals and capital raising, and coordinate joint actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UCDI Investor Club is headed by D3 fund Managing Partner Eveline Buchatsky. \u201cWe have brought together strong, sector-focused investors on a single platform to build an ecosystem for the sector\u2019s growth,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Dealbook on investments in Ukrainian defence tech, 2023\u20132025<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first analytical product of the UCDI Investor Club is Dealbook \u2014 a review of investments in Ukrainian defence technologies in 2023\u20132025. It compiles public and verified market data on deals, investors, verticals, and funding stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key figures from the review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Between 2023 and 2025, publicly disclosed investments grew from $1.1 million to $105 million \u2014 almost a 100-fold increase in two years ($1.1 million in 2023, $28.7 million in 2024, and $105.2 million in 2025).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Approximately 30% of investments remain undisclosed, indicating that public figures underreport the actual scale of the market.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The largest funding volumes are in unmanned systems and autonomy, including maritime uncrewed platforms, drone autonomy, UAVs, and ground platforms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A sign of market maturity: the share of expansion and follow-on rounds is increasing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Average cheque sizes are rising: the average Pre-seed deal grew from $215,000 in 2023 to $718,000 in 2025; at the Seed stage, the average deal size increased from $1.8 million in 2024 to $2.9 million in 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/thedefender.media\/en\/2025\/12\/brave1-investments-highlights-2025\/\"><strong>Read more:<\/strong> Ukrainian defence tech startups secured over $105M in investment in 2025, according to Brave1<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full version of the review is available <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1h5hwQDhMff8B-DKhXVl_529t7mJ3aUHM\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">via the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club already includes 15 investment funds specialising in defence investments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_featured_category_order":0,"_article_badge":"featured","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,31,28,31],"tags":[328,2203,1635,1728,298,409],"class_list":["post-20562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecosystem","category-investments","tag-d3","tag-eveline-buchatskiy","tag-ihor-fedirko","tag-investments","tag-investors","tag-ucdi","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The UCDI launches the Investor Club<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The club already includes 15 investment funds specialising in defence investments. 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