IT Arena 2025: Key Investor Signals and the Role of the Innovation Support Office
IT Arena 2025 in Lviv has wrapped — three intense days filled with pitches, panels, backstage conversations, and invaluable insights from the innovation ecosystem.
For the Innovation Support Office, the event was an opportunity to gather real investor field notes — to understand what drives their decisions and which signals determine whether a team is ready for investment. You can explore more updates in the Useful section.
Three key questions investors ask today
💬 Team readiness: is there real progress from idea to prototype or pilot?
💬 Execution predictability: how much time and funding will implementation take?
💬 Market readiness: what can accelerate or slow down deployment?
These questions fully align with our daily work at the Innovation Support Office. We help startups close bottlenecks, validate assumptions, structure products, and strengthen their investment readiness so that investors meet prepared teams and credible solutions.
Startup competition winners
Congratulations to DWARF Engineering and StackBob.ai — strong ideas with clear implementation paths. This is exactly how the future gets built.
Our takeaway from IT Arena
We turn investor signals into actions — and actions into real outcomes. This is how we create long-term value for Ukraine’s DeepTech ecosystem and the programs developed by the Innovation Support Office.
Onward — supporting Ukrainian startups as they scale and go global.
