Brave1

Brave1 is a Ukrainian government platform launched on 26 April 2023, with the aim of bringing together innovative companies with ideas and developments for use in Ukraine's defense against Russia's ongoing military invasion. By early 2024, more than 1,000 companies, including designers, manufacturers, and finance companies, were actively using the platform. By mid-2026, the one-time grant program had transformed into: "the largest angel investor in Ukrainian defense tech, having issued over 750 grants amounting to 3.7 billion UAH"... while "consolidat[ing] the efforts of government, security and defense forces, the scientific community, and business to create technologies that change the course of the war" while also ... "support[ing] technologies at every stage—from analytics and the formation of technical specifications for defense manufacturers to combat testing and the implementation of advanced technologies into the military through Brave1 Market."