July was the month AI stopped waiting for instructions and started completing tasks on its own. The world’s top accelerator put defense at the top of its wishlist, and two of our portfolio companies had a very good month. Here’s the Sigma Software Labs digest.
Defense Tech Isn’t Niche Anymore
Y Combinator – the accelerator behind Airbnb and Stripe – publishes a list of startups it wants built. This year’s list includes a request from a sitting US Secretary of the Army: drones and sensors for ground combat. It’s a sign of how mainstream defense tech has become – something we’ve been building toward for years in Defence Builder.
Nine Networking Lessons Worth Stealing
Networking advice is everywhere. Far more useful: hearing it from people who actually raise capital and open new markets. We collected nine lessons from Sigma Software’s CEO Katherine Tuluzova, Anastasia Prozor, Daria Yaniieva, and Datrics founder Anton Vaisburd. Learn from the ones who do it best. Read them here.
Anastasia Prozor, Head of Operations, LATAM at Sigma Software US
Labs Products Go to Baku
Azerbaijan is modernising everything at once – banks, logistics, telecom, state services. Sigma Software partnered with local integrator FOMINOV CONSULTING to power the modernization, and two Labs products will be at the center of it: Trigger, our neobank platform, and Deus Robotics, our warehouse automation startup. Read more about our collaboration.
Chief Operating Officer, Sigma Software Labs.
Buntar Drones Fully Remote Piloting
Combat drones lose connection constantly – jamming, terrain, distance. Buntar Aerospace built Remote Control directly into Buntar Copilot, with independent streams for video, telemetry, and logs, so one failing channel doesn’t take down the rest. The easy route was wrapping third-party remote access tools. They took the harder one, because that’s what survives a mission.
See how it works.
FINMAP Makes the Forbes Cut
Cash flow visibility is the unglamorous problem most software ignores. FINMAP, our portfolio company, just made Forbes Ukraine’s NEXT250 – the ranking of SMBs set to shape the economy. Behind the placement: 4,000+ clients across 100+ industries in 54 countries. Join us in congratulating the team. Read more.
Season 2 of the AI Product Ideas Contest is open 🦄
Season 1 turned everyday frustrations into real tools – some of them now running inside Sigma Software. It proved the best ideas don’t come from job titles; they come from people close to the problem. Season 2 is open. Got something that annoys you every week? That’s usually where the product is. Read more here.
That’s July. Next month: more portfolio milestones, Labs Galaxy updates, and industry shifts worth watching.
