🇺🇦🇺🇸 Startup projects and innovations of Kyiv Polytechnic will now be supported by the Ukrainian-American venture fund Oppenheimer Acceleration LLC, based in Silicon Valley!
📌 Memorandum between Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Oppenheimer Acceleration LLC, Sikorsky Challenge Innovation Holding and Kyiv Polytechnic Science Park.
Within the framework of cooperation:
- development and implementation of innovations in the defense and security industry;
- mentoring and expert support for new startups in the defense and national security sector;
- creation of joint educational programs for entrepreneurs in the field of defense technologies;
- Innovative events and competitions, hackathons, demos, and the Defense and Security section at the International Festival of Innovative Startup Projects;
- entering the international arena, particularly in the United States.
“Our venture ecosystem wants your university, our foundation, and our American partners to work on joint programs and create joint products in the field of defense security. We invite you to join our future initiatives because you are the experts. KPI is the founder of technical education in Ukraine,” Valeriy Omelchenko, Managing Partner of the Ukrainian-American venture fund Oppenheimer Acceleration LLC in Ukraine.
Oppenheimer Acceleration LLC offers its partners a full range of services: from consulting and mentoring to technical assistance and financing, as well as provides access to the latest technologies, resources and network of contacts for startups in the field of defense, national and public security.