Battle Field Validation - Test your Tech in Ukraine with Stonegardens Advisory

In a venture market where nearly $50B flowed into defense tech last year alone, capital is no longer the constraint, proof is.

Deep tech founders face a harder question: Does your system actually survive, adapt, and deliver in modern large-scale combat operations?

SGA, through our in country deployment and testing program, will help you answer that question under real conditions, not simulated exercises. We bring U.S. deep tech companies into Ukraine for controlled evaluation with LSCO-experienced operators, battalion and brigade leadership, and specialized training units. Participants can test in advanced training environments with Ukrainian combat veterans or, where appropriate, deploy in proximity to or in active frontline units for true operational feedback.

Unlike Western exercises that lack adaptive adversaries, dense EW environments, artillery saturation, and contested logistics, Ukraine offers a modern battlefield laboratory. Systems are evaluated for survivability, integration friction, human factors, and mission impact. Founders receive structured operator feedback, performance data, and validation documentation suitable for U.S. DoD stakeholders, primes, and investors.

This is not a tour. It is a rigorously coordinated engagement including export control review, vetted end-user access, secure logistics, and defined success metrics. Technologies are matched to real mission profiles. Data is captured. Lessons are documented. Follow-on pathways domestically, SBIRs, programs of record, prime integration, Nato and Ukraine revenue, are mapped in parallel.

For deep tech companies building autonomy, EW, robotics, ISR, secure comms, energy, cyber, or advanced materials, this program provides what no lab or CONUS range can: credible, combat-informed validation. In today’s capital environment, combat credibility is is a procurement and fundraising accelerant.

This event will explain how your technology can prove it belongs, and to return with the data, relationships, and operational pedigree your competitors do not have.