Ukraine market entry, six months ahead

The first six months of your Ukraine entry — already done.

Foothold gives mid-sized Nordic and European companies the verified market map, named counterparts, live funding picture and institutional introductions that normally take half a year to assemble.

Reports from €3,500 · released only to companies we have qualified, starting with a 20-minute call.

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20 yearsinside industrial operations
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1–4 weeksfrom question to actionable map

The problem

You have been circling Ukraine for eighteen months.

Someone on your board asked about Ukraine. Someone in sales met a distributor at a trade fair. You have a folder of news articles, two half-answered emails and a consultant’s quote for €40,000 you have not signed.

What you do not have is the list of companies that would actually buy what you make, checked against the business registry, with the name of the person who decides and the reason they would take your call this quarter. We have already built it.

Moving now

The money is already moving. It is not waiting for your risk assessment.

Current EU-backed financing is restoring hydropower, district heating, transport links and energy resilience. A €120 million EIB loan signed in July 2025 supports rehabilitation at Kaniv, Kremenchuk and Dnipro hydropower plants.

This is not a post-war scenario. It is disbursing on published timetables, into sectors where the counterparties are named and reachable. The companies that arrive early tend to keep the relationship.

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Officials visiting a high-voltage power facility in Ukraine
Energy resilience in practiceOfficial visit to a Ukrainian power facility · Photo: Ane Haavardsdatter Lunde / Norad

The standard

Checked, not scraped.

01

Registry

Every named Ukrainian company is checked against the state registry, with ownership traced and relevant sanctions and disputes flagged.

02

Funding

Every financing claim is tied to a named instrument: institution, amount and date.

03

Forcing function

Each report identifies the specific law, accession requirement or technical standard that turns interest into a deadline.

04

Limitations

Where evidence is incomplete or likely to move, the report says so and names what must be re-checked before action.

The access layer

Nobody should enter Ukraine cold.

A small number of investment offices, sector associations, industrial clusters and national export bodies convene almost every credible counterparty in each sector we cover.

Winning three of those relationships turns a campaign from cold approaches into a sequence of warm introductions. That is the backbone of every report we sell.

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Buyer protection

We do not sell these reports to everyone.

Before releasing a report, we confirm who you are, what you make and whether the research genuinely fits your question. We also decline where a client is already working the same segment.

This protects the value of what you buy: named counterparts are not approached by six companies holding the same document in the same month.

The call takes twenty minutes. If we cannot help, we will tell you plainly.

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Svetlana Moks, founder of Foothold
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Industrial judgement

Experience behind the research.

Foothold is led by Svetlana Moks, whose twenty years in mining and building materials include seventeen with Nordkalk and work across Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. Her experience across operations, regional leadership and board-level decisions brings a practical perspective to every market-entry question.

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