Denys Sychkov is a Principal at Horizon Capital, where he focuses on sourcing new investments and managing portfolio companies in healthcare, e-commerce, IT, and food & beverages. Prior to joining Horizon in 2019, he worked at McKinsey & Company on operational excellence and transformation projects across Europe and Ukraine, and earlier at PwC as an audit manager. Denys holds an MA in International Economics from Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade and is a qualified ACCA.
Ukraineβs investment market is in deep stagnation. Outside of defense tech, almost no capital is moving, and for civilian startups raising money has become close to impossible. What can founders do in such a market? This panel will confront the hard questions: how investors actually assess risks, what factors make them say βyesβ or βno,β and whether there are still realistic chances for non-defense startups to attract funding. No sugarcoating β just the brutal truth about capital, priorities, and survival in wartime Ukraine.
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