Tencore
Ukraine's fastest-scaling ground-robot maker: its modular tracked TerMIT UGV hauls supplies, evacuates wounded and lays mines under FPV fire — pulling infantry off the deadly last mile, now co-produced in Germany at scale.
Background
Founded in February 2024, Tencore (TENCORE LLC) began as a five-person 'garage' operation and, on its own account, grew past 200 staff and roughly 3,000 deployed platforms within two years — among the fastest scale-ups in Ukraine's crowded ground-robotics sector, where Foreign Policy counts 200-plus UGV firms. Co-founder and CEO Maksym Vasylchenko, a Kyiv-based manufacturer, runs it with co-founder and chief business-development officer Roman Tkachenko; Forbes notes that at least two core founders brought international factory-building experience, the trait investors credit for the company's speed.
(Denys Gurak, sometimes miscited as a Tencore founder, is a co-founder of its investor, MITS Capital — a distinction worth keeping straight.) The flagship TerMIT — 'Terrain Modular Infantry Transporter' — was, per Vasylchenko, a frontline tactical request turned into a working prototype in weeks from off-the-shelf parts, then hardened through direct feedback from combat units. The company motto, 'Let robots fight,' captures the intent: pull soldiers out of the deadliest tasks. Tencore says it holds ISO 9001:2015 and AQAP 2110:2016 quality certifications and that TerMIT was codified by Ukraine's Ministry of Defence in June 2025. Exact headcount, HQ address and output remain company-stated and hard to verify independently amid wartime secrecy.