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There is a question that changes everything. For Volodymyr Nepiuk, it was: "What can I do that actually matters?" In peacetime, this question might have stayed abstract — one more thought over coffee among ambitious people. But after February 24, 2022, and especially after his friend was killed in combat, it became concrete, heavy, and unavoidable.
Volodymyr came to Farsight Vision with deep roots in data — consumer behavior analytics, retail intelligence, large-scale unstructured data processing. Together with Viktoriia Yaremchuk, now the company's CEO, they asked a non-obvious question: what if the same principles of spatial data analysis and computer vision that help businesses make better decisions could help commanders make better decisions on the battlefield — and do it in minutes, not hours?
The first MVP validated the hypothesis almost immediately. FSV Platform is a platform that builds accurate 3D terrain models, analyzing changes, and detecting 30 types of objects. But today the company has moved far beyond that: a UAV Autonomy Stack, integration with robotic and combat systems, €7.2M raised from Axon Enterprise — all of this signals that Farsight Vision is no longer just a "tool for drone pilots." It has become a spatial layer that unites manufactures, the military, the operators in a single ecosystem.

Volodymyr, your path in technology — from cybersecurity research and retail analytics (Datawiz) to building a complex miltech stack. What was the decisive technical or emotional impulse that made you shift from analyzing consumer behavior to creating digital twins of the battlefield? At what point did you realize your data expertise was critically needed at the front line?
Like many Ukrainians, the full-scale invasion became a moment of professional rethinking for me. I had been thinking about where else I could apply my expertise in data and analytics. But after the invasion began, those thoughts took on an entirely different meaning. My friend was killed in the war. For me and many of our mutual friends, that was the moment when the question "what can I do that actually matters?" stopped being abstract.Before that, I was working with consumer behavioral data, helping businesses make more precise decisions. I realized that the same approaches to data analysis, computer vision, and building complex digital models could help not businesses, but people whose decisions affect lives.
Viktoriia Yaremchuk and I began exploring how modern 3D reconstruction technologies could work for military tasks. We built the first MVP and almost immediately saw the reaction from users. The turning point for me was when it became clear: our terrain models weren't just pretty visualizations — they were tools that help military personnel better understand the situation, plan operations, and reduce risk.
That was when I fully understood: data expertise is needed not only in offices and data centers. It's needed where battlefield decisions are made. And from that point on, developing this direction became more than a professional challenge — it became work where technology can directly affect security and bring victory closer.
You often say Farsight Vision is not just about drones, but about the 'spatial foundation for human-robot interaction.' How has your personal vision as an engineer transformed over these two years of war — from wanting to solve a specific problem for drone pilots to the ambition of building a global autonomy platform that will reshape NATO's security architecture?
Drones, satellites, robotic platforms — these are just instruments. They collect data, but they don't solve the core problem of spatial understanding.One of the biggest revelations for me was how accessible and mature 3D reconstruction technologies have become. If you look at the broader picture, soldiers and civilians are still using maps based on a concept that hasn't fundamentally changed since Napoleon. They became more precise, digital, compact — but the principle remained the same.
We saw an opportunity to reimagine the entire approach to working with space. Reading a map requires specialized skills and training. A 3D environment, by contrast, lets a person literally see themselves inside the terrain, understand the landscape and context — intuitively.
That's why our vision evolved from generating individual 3D models to building a spatial platform that helps both humans and robots equally understand their environment and operate within it.

How would you describe the 'DNA code' of your team? What unites the people in your company beyond software development — what values allow you to stay resilient when you see the results of your work directly from the battlefield?
There's a very simple answer: we are working in the context of an existential war for Ukraine. Everyone on the team is united by the desire to help the country endure and win.
But there's a second important component: we are developing solutions whose outcomes can be seen and felt in the real world. We face serious engineering challenges, and for many team members, the opportunity to work on problems like these is a powerful motivator.
What inspires us most is the feedback from the military. When we learn that thanks to our product an operation was successfully completed, an evacuation carried out, or a combat mission accomplished — it reminds us why we do this work.
Your platform accelerates situational awareness 30x compared to traditional methods. Tell us about the feedback from the military: what was the most unexpected discovery for your team when the product was first used during the counteroffensive?
Honestly, we still don't know all the ways our platform is being used. Soldiers constantly find new scenarios we never imagined during development.
One case that genuinely stunned me: after integration with a situational awareness system capable of broadcasting coordinates, soldiers took a phone, placed it inside a UGV — an unmanned ground vehicle — and then controlled the robot using our system. The robot transmitted coordinates, the operator saw its position in the 3D environment and could navigate it far more effectively. For us, this was an example of how a technology can find entirely new applications after the product ships.
Another interesting case involved the line-of-sight analysis tools. Soldiers began using them to plan flight routes and assess drone communication quality. That experience directly inspired us to build a dedicated product for radio coverage and signal analysis.
Farsight Vision is moving toward full drone autonomy — the UAV Autonomy Stack. How do you balance developing complex artificial intelligence with the requirement to keep the interface maximally simple for a soldier operating under extreme stress?
Building a complex interface is easy. Building a simple one is far harder.For us, artificial intelligence is not about adding more settings or complex menus. On the contrary — its purpose is to hide technical complexity from the user.
From the very beginning, we sought to simplify interaction with the system as much as possible. Our original vision called for a minimal interface: the user simply submits data, and in return receives a finished 3D model and the analytics they need.
Today, the simplicity principle remains one of the company's core commitments — especially when the users are operating under high stress and must make decisions in seconds.

Raising €7.2M from giants like Axon Enterprise is a massive market signal. What does this round mean for Ukraine's agency: are we finally moving from being just a 'testing ground' to being full-fledged creators of global defense standards?
I believe Ukrainian defense tech stopped being just a testing ground long ago. Today, Ukraine is shaping new approaches, standards, and practices for modern warfare.
This investment round matters not only for Farsight Vision, but for the entire ecosystem. It demonstrates that global investors are willing to back Ukrainian companies when they see real technology validated by real results.
It is a signal of trust — in Ukrainian engineers, Ukrainian teams, and in solutions built here. It also confirms that products created in Ukraine have real potential in global markets.
At the same time, for Ukrainian tech companies to scale not only in global markets but domestically, state procurement mechanisms must be adapted to the realities of modern war. Software determines operational effectiveness no less than drones or other hardware systems. However, current procurement procedures were designed for physical goods and poorly accommodate the specifics of digital products. That is why we are working together with the Ministry of Defense, Brave1, the Ukrainian Defense Industry Council, and other market participants to create a dedicated procurement mechanism for defense software. This will allow the state to access the best Ukrainian solutions faster, and allow companies to invest in developing new technologies.
What is the primary trap you see for young teams — and how does the cluster help them build not just a drone or a gadget, but a resilient technology business?
Many risks in defense tech closely mirror risks in any other startup.The first trap is building a product nobody needs. Teams can work for years on technology without ever finding real product-market fit.The second is single-client dependency. On the surface it looks like success, but that model scales poorly and leaves the business vulnerable.
The third is refusing to think globally. It's very easy to focus only on the local market or copy what others are already doing. But true innovation appears when a team tries to solve a problem in a new way and thinks about international scale from day one.This is exactly where professional communities and clusters play a critical role. They help you get feedback faster, find partners, test solutions, and compress the path from idea to deployment.

Where do you see the greatest power of horizontal connections in our community? Can you give an example of when a simple collaboration inside the cluster helped Farsight Vision or another company solve a critical problem faster than any government vertical could have?
Our greatest advantage is speed.
When manufacturers, military personnel, software developers, and engineers work in close contact, testing, feedback loops, and deployment of new solutions happen far faster.
It is precisely these horizontal connections that allow Ukrainian defense tech to develop at a pace that would be impossible to imagine in traditional bureaucratic systems.
Faces of Impact is about legacy. How do you see Farsight Vision's role in the global security architecture over the next 5–10 years? What impact do you want to leave on the history of the Ukrainian technology sector?
We are convinced that the future belongs to robots and autonomous operations. Over the next 5–10 years, the world is transitioning to coexistence with millions of autonomous systems — drones, ground robots, humanoids, unmanned vessels. None of them will be able to operate safely and in coordination without a shared understanding of the physical space in which they work alongside humans. In conditions like these, shared spatial understanding between humans and machines becomes critical.
That is why we see Farsight Vision as a global platform for interaction between humans, robots, and autonomous systems — one that will provide spatial awareness, planning, coordination, and mission execution in complex environments.
Our goal is to create a universal spatial layer that unites robotic system manufacturers, operators, and military personnel in a single ecosystem. We believe that platforms exactly like this will become the security infrastructure of the future.