Earlier this year, Zurich-headquartered VC firm Lakestar distributed a pitch deck, seeking backers for a new defence tech fund. The pitch offered a new opportunity for investors to take a stake in an industry that has ballooned in the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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