Dasha Yaniieva 🇺🇦

З Днем Незалежності, вільний народе вільної країни 🇺🇦 ⠀ Україна знає, що таке справжня незалежність, і якою ціною ми беремося за неї кожного дня. Незабаром ми святкуватимемо разом на головній площі країни, під блакитним мирним небом. ⠀ За нами правда, за нами перемога. Зі святом, рідна.

Made it to the @forbesunder30 list 🇺🇦 Can’t keep it quiet any longer!!! ⠀ I never thought, and never even allowed myself to dream, that I would be here :) This award means sooo much, but even more it’s about what we create together — safer nights, stronger tech ecosystem, and our future built here, in Ukraine. Grateful to my team and partners 🤍 ⠀ @forbes.ukraine.official @sigma_software

Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 ⠀ 🇵🇹 On the westernmost point of Europe. No words needed, ‘cause you just can’t describe the power of this place. That’s a huge recover and emotional reload ⠀ 📍 Cabo da Roca

The EU just launched a €160M #DefenceTech programme for Ukraine — €140M in guarantees + €21M in investment grants, designed to unlock up to €400M in bank financing for Ukrainian defence and dual-use companies. Our President Daria Yaniieva shared her take with @eu_startups on what this programme needs to deliver in practice. The key point: many Ukrainian defence companies already have battlefield-tested tech, validated solutions, and signed procurement contracts. What’s missing isn’t innovation — it’s the financing to scale production and fulfil existing demand. What European support should look like according to Daria: working capital facilities, receivables financing, order-backed lending, export credit mechanisms — not venture capital logic, but trade and supply chain finance. 🔗Full piece via link in bio.

quiet kind of love

one Swedish summer day in the mid-April 📍Göteborg

What is Defence Builder today? Since March 2026, we operate as a full-scale defence tech ecosystem: an acceleration programme, a venture fund, and a dedicated capabilities arm covering market intelligence, deal support, due diligence, and corporate governance — all under one roof, from product validation to capital raise. Our President Daria Yaniieva @daryaaay sat down with Yurii Shtokaliuk @ain_ukraine to break down how DB Fund I works, who’s already in the portfolio, and what comes next. A few highlights: 📍5 portfolio companies to date: Sine Engineering, Falcons, MaXon Systems, Huless, and Buntar Aerospace, more deals currently at due diligence stage 📍Fund I size: $5M, with an LP base spanning Ukraine, the US, UK, and Europe 📍Fund II is being structured, targeting 4–5x the capital 📍We deliberately avoid being the sole investor — the goal is to connect companies to multiple partners, networks, and markets 📍 Our core focus stays on defence demand as it exists today. A civilian market upside is a welcome bonus, not a requirement 📍On exits: we don’t think of exit as a single event — it’s about building a company strong enough to matter: to a strategic acquirer, a major fund, or a global market. And the first exits in this segment may come faster than expected — within a 2–5 year horizon. 🔗Full interview in bio

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sunset of million colors 📍 Top of the Rock @ NYC #ny

new york, new york 🗽 the kind of city that hits different every single time. every block, every corner. food, art, noise, people from everywhere, and all packed into one island that somehow holds it all together ⠀ and then you go up. 67 floors above it all, and in one moment the whole city becomes this breathing thing below you. golden hour on top, believe me, you can’t stop taking photos ‘cause every minute light & colors changes. so here we go with ‘hundred’ (ok, ten) moments from one hour on top ⠀ new york feels, looks, and sounds like nothing else ⠀ 📍 Top of the Rock, NYC

good morning, New Yorkers 📸

quick one from special night in Kyiv; when I was running from this unreal ‘Forbes Express’ straight into very real Kyiv Central station, casual being-home mode ⠀ you know, I never thought Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 could be much bigger than award. but in one moment you look around and realise, you sit in one room with people building Ukraine’s future right now. here. tonight ⠀ these are the ones who keep scaling when it’s 100% easier to stop. who keep hiring / investing when risks are rooftop-high. and who make decisions that don’t fit into any KPI, but absolutely fit into responsibility for the people behind them ⠀ at some point this crowd was not about success stories. but about attitude, about choosing to stay in the game when the rules keep changing and everything around is unstable ⠀ Entrepreneur of the Year / Deal of the Year goes to Uklon. $155.2M exit to Kyivstar. our global-level wow. and then same room raised $3.75M for charity auction. just like that. that’s what makes us different ⠀ and special looove to @forbes.ukraine.official Team 💔 for a few hours, you step into a different universe in the middle of Kyiv. perfectly built by people who dream & act big. to new height in 2026