Kerbot Drone startup in the Student Startup Fund acceleration program!

In April-June, the Kerbot Drone startup, which this year won the «STARTUP with Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic» Business Ideas Competition, joined the Student Startup Fund Spring ’26 acceleration program, aimed at supporting innovative ideas of Ukrainian students and graduate students for the development of new startups. The program was initiated by the UNIT.City innovation park with the assistance of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Startup Fund, as well as with the support of Win-Win EDIH Ukraine, EUNITED Digital Hub, Universe Group and SET University.

Kerbot Drone is software for training, designing and analyzing UAVs. The author of the idea and the main developer is Oleh Savchenko (BK-615m), a student of the Faculty of Information Security and Electronic Communications. The team also included Ivan Bushman (BK-612), Pavlo Reznychenko (BK-615m) and Snizhana Vychuzhanina, a post-graduate student and head of the student research department. Nataliia Myronova, associate professor of the department of information technologies of electronic means, acted as the team’s scientific consultant.

For three months, the participants went through training modules, talked with experts, and performed practical work on the product with the support of the team’s mentor, Olha Petrunina, a consultant on the formation of state orders for the most important scientific and technical (experimental) developments and scientific and technical products. The team was also given the opportunity to receive interim financing for the implementation of the MVP.

The final event of the program was the Demo Day, which took place offline in Kyiv at the UNIT.City base. Oksana Berezhna, Director General of the Department of Innovations and Connections of Science with the Real Sector of the Economy of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Anna Motrych, Project Manager of the Ukrainian Startup Fund, Pavlo Mykhailiuk, UNIT.City Ecosystem Development Director, and Student Startup Fund Program Coordinator, UNIT.City Project Leader Tymofiy Bazhan gave a welcoming speech. During the event, teams presented their startups to the jury, received feedback from representatives of the innovation ecosystem, and competed for support for the further development of their projects.

Snizhana Vychuzhanina presented Zaporizhzhia Polytechnic National University, in particular, the youth startup movement and the Kerbot Drone team at the Demo Day. 

After the final, the work with the teams will continue. Program participants will be able to continue the development of their projects, maintain contact with mentors and partners, and work on the next steps to launch or scale their solutions.

Zaporizka Polytechnic is glad to be part of a powerful national innovation ecosystem and to contribute to the formation of an environment in Ukraine where students study, create their own innovative products and launch real startups! Together to new achievements!