The final pitch of the BizCamp 2026 – Demo Day program was held at the Ukrainian Future business incubator of the National Center “Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, based on the results of which the expert jury recommended 30 youth startup projects to participate in the national selection of the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (NYEC).
In total, 82 teams participated in the final pitch, who worked on the development of their ideas for two weeks together with the head of the Ukrainian Future business incubator, startup project mentor and NFTE certified specialist Iryna Bystrova.
BizCamp is an adapted Ukrainian Future Ukrainian version of the program of one of the leading international entrepreneurship education platforms NFTE (USA). Its methodology is focused not only on the development of entrepreneurial competencies, but also on the formation of entrepreneurial thinking — the ability to see opportunities, find solutions, work with uncertainty and turn ideas into projects ready for market entry.
The program helped participants go all the way from an idea to a public pitch: research the market, identify the target audience, test business hypotheses, develop a business model, prepare a marketing strategy, and learn how to convincingly present their solutions to experts.
During the Demo Day, the teams presented their own projects to the jury, received professional feedback and practical recommendations for the further development of their startups. Based on the evaluation results, 30 teams were recommended to participate in the National Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (NYEC), which will take place on September 4, 2026. It is there that the team that will represent Ukraine in the World Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (WYEC) global final from NFTE in New York (USA) will be determined.
Teams recommended for participation in the NYEC 2026 national selection (in random order):
- Builddi — Anna Dilyagina
- CogniFlow — Sofia Romanovych, Maria Kostyuk
- MOVE. — Semenina Yulia, Prysyazhnyuk Mykhailo
- Speachie — Tetyorkina Oleksandra, Polishchuk Vladyslav,
- Osipova Olesya, Koroid Alisa, Pugach Vsevolod
- DRONOPORT — Nesterovych Danylo
- Obrys AI — Kornienko Anna
- Skarlet — Spilnichenko Nazar, Honcharuk Danylo
- HyClean Pipe — Tetyorkina Oleksandra
- PurePaw — Chekotun Arina
- Facet locator — Manko Sofia, Manko Kateryna
- Degree17 — Fetisenko Viktoria
- DOGGO — Antonyuk Polina
- FPV Drone Blinding — Lynovitska Nadiya
- Scilift — Vladyslav Malakhova, Shumka Nazar
- Sensora — Evelina Shatybelko
- FitKit — Sulima Maria, Krykun Ivan, Khakhula Sofia
- Astra — Tokhtamysh Maria, Salamanovych Anna
- ARIMS — Marchenko Ivan
- Government Lab — Sofia Trynkal, Nazar Ostapiv
- EatChain — Durytska Stefania
- Tether — Alisa Titomyr
- ToriPrep — Viktoria Babchenko
- NMT.ACADEMY — Volodymyr Shpodarunok, Ihor Kharkholuk, Maksym Matviyiv
- EdInclusion — Rostyslav Budalak
- ReGrow — Iryna Terekhova, Anastasia Kazianu
- TEGmyShirt — Daryna Zembovich
- Sensyth — Oleksandr Gavrylyuk
- Smile&Task — Pavlo Mitrovtsiy
- Una+ — Evelina Bak, Sofia Sobko, Vasilysa Kovaleva
- LisSkills — Yelyzaveta Chechel