The Pursuit of Scrappiness 🎧 Investing in Ukraine despite the war, how startups are adjusting to new reality and predictions on war outcomes w/ Mathias Eklöf (Hype Ventures) Ep.70
Mathias Eklöf is a serial entrepreneur and investor with multiple startup exits. He is currently running his own investment company Hype Ventures. With extensive entrepreneurship experience, especially in Russia and Ukraine, Mathias is one of the leading early stage investors actively focusing on Ukrainian startups despite the war. He also has a background from the Swedish military and enjoys giving direct opinions making Mathias a perfect guest for conversation about the investment climate and geopolitical trends in the region.
In this episode we talk about:
- Hype Ventures and Mathias’s entrepreneurship journey
- How Ukrainian startups have adapted to the war
- How investors look at Ukraine
- Regional outlook in the context of war
The episode was recorded on June 10, 2022
The topics covered in this episode with Timestamps:
01:45 - Introduction and how Mathias became an investor in Ukrainian startups
07:50 - How have Ukrainian startups reacted to the war environment
10:50 - Mathias’s first reaction to the war in the first week after February 24th
14:50 - How do Ukrainian founders look at working in Ukraine in the medium to long term
18:20 - How other western investors look at investing in Ukraine
22:00 - What are the key reasons for investing in Ukraine today
26:30 - How has the war impacted investment attractiveness for the Baltics?
31:00 - On the regional security outlook in the context of the war
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathias-eklof-glorytoukraine/
Website: https://hypeventures.io/
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