Strimco: Redefining GovTech Resilience From the Frontlines of Digital Transformation
The Pitch
“We represent quite a strange and unusual IT company for our sector. We work solely with governments”, says Anastas Boiko, COO of Strimco. In a world where citizens can order groceries, buy plane tickets, or stream music in seconds, Strimco believes public entities cannot continue operating like they did decades ago. Modern citizens expect government digital standards to match the seamless user experience of the private sector. Strimco partners with public institutions to completely re-engineer their operational mindset, transforming bureaucracy from a control-driven entity that creates roadblocks into a modern, crisis-resilient service provider for taxpayers and businesses.
The Spark: Keeping the State Alive in April 2022
The foundations of Strimco were forged in Ukraine’s intensive anti-corruption and digital initiatives, which recently propelled the country to 5th place in the UN E-Government Development Index for online services. Historically, the team came together through various domains of public sector re-engineering, realizing that collective action could achieve national-scale impact.
Their defining “aha!” moment arrived in April 2022 – just over a month into the full-scale invasion. As international donor programs temporarily froze to assess the volatile wartime landscape, the founding team saw a critical vulnerability: regardless of external funding shifts, the Ukrainian government needed immediate, uninterrupted technical support to maintain vital functions during a war. Strimco was formally launched to step into that gap as an independent, mission-driven entity.
The Reality: Pitching Impact Over Tech Salaries
Building a highly specialized GovTech firm under current conditions introduces severe operational paradoxes. Strimco operates in a fiercely aggressive talent market, competing for top-tier developers against massive global outsourcing corporations that serve automotive giants or space agencies.
To win the talent war, Strimco pitches profound societal impact over standard corporate perks. Developers are shown that their code directly reinforces national defense, healthcare infrastructure, and public resilience. It is a strategy that works; once engineers see the concrete value their work brings to their own families and neighbors, they stay.
Furthermore, Strimco faces intense structural pressures. Unlike traditional software startups, government-facing re-engineering requires substantial, high-stakes offline presence for legislative workshops. Despite heavy aerial bombardments, power outages, and grid failures, the team remains physically present on the ground, successfully bridging the gap between physical necessity and digital innovation.
The Technology & National Impact
Strimco evaluates every contract not by its monetary volume, but by its alignment with core values and civilian benefit. Their architecture underpins some of the most critical deployments in modern Ukraine:
Defense Digitalization: Partnering directly with the Ministry of Defense, Strimco significantly contributed to building the Reserve+ and Army+ platforms, radically streamlining military logistics, recruitment, and internal HR processes within the armed forces.
Veteran Reintegration: The team engineered the Veteran Pro platform, a digestible digital ecosystem designed to help war veterans seamlessly access the services, benefits, and support they earned, facilitating a smoother transition back into civilian life.
Hard Facts & Traction
Operational Longevity: Successfully sustained and scaled operations through four turbulent years of shifting external funding landscapes.
Niche Domain Mastery: Built a pure-play product management and re-engineering firm focused strictly on the public sector, avoiding the path of generic mass-market IT integrators.
National Scalability: Proven battlefield-tested blueprint capable of executing rapid, large-scale digital transformations affecting millions of users simultaneously.
The VivaTech 2026 Roadmap: Current Needs
As Strimco joins the national delegation in Paris, the company views VivaTech as an unmatched marketplace opportunity to pressure-test their solutions on a broader scale.
Citizen-Centric CustDev: While GovTech firms typically engage only with public officials, Strimco is utilizing VivaTech to run extensive customer development with regular European citizens and businesses, discovering if Western administrative friction points mirror the challenges solved in Ukraine.
Consortium Partnerships: The company is actively seeking international clients and local European or French consortium partners. Strimco aims to pair its unique, crisis-resilient rapid transformation blueprint with partners who understand native market compliance.
Where to Connect in Paris:
June 16: Meet Anastas in person at the premier official side event, Ukrainian Tech Night (The Village by Crédit Agricole Paris).
Main Forum: Engage with the leadership team directly at the official Ukrainian National Pavilion, J16.
The Horizon: Giving Back to Europe
Within the next three to five years, Strimco plans to deepen its presence in high-impact socioeconomic verticals in Ukraine, such as the rule of law and the national investment climate. Internationally, their vision is to establish a permanent, localized presence in one to three European markets.
For the team, international expansion is fueled by a desire to give back. European partner countries have sustained Ukraine with defense and humanitarian aid; Strimco aims to return the favor by sharing hard-earned tech resilience and operational blueprints to help European governments radically elevate their customer experience standards.
Listen to the Full Story
Explore how Strimco is engineering the future of public services under fire. Listen to the complete conversation between host Natalia Petrova and Strimco COO Anastas Boiko.
