NATO Innovation Fund — backed companies
Allied multilateral venture capital in deep tech and dual-use.
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The NATO Innovation Fund is the Allies' multilateral VC; portfolio per nif.fund — a mix of direct holdings and fund GPs. Country is shown only where the source description states it.
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201 Ventures
201 Ventures is a $22M first fund, managed by solo GP and former CIA officer Eric Slesinger. The fund’s mission is to advance freedom and autonomy in Europe. It typically invests in pre-seed and seed stage companies in the defence, security and resilience space.
2D Photonics
2D Photonics is a leader in graphene photonics transceivers, an advanced technology set to revolutionize artificial intelligence and cellular data transmission by improving energy efficiency, reducing latency, and increasing bandwidth. CamGraPhIC is a wholly owned subsidiary of 2…
ARX Robotics
This company manufactures scalable robotic systems for mass deployment in defence, commercial and humanitarian applications to future-proof armed forces, and increase the safety and efficiency of workforces.
Alpine Space Ventures
An early-stage fund focused on investments in the space sector, leveraging over 50 years of industry experience. With a concentrated portfolio, the fund aims to empower select start ups to deliver key space-enabled capabilities.
Aquark Technologies
Aquark’s innovative quantum sensing technology is helping secure the critical infrastructure that underpins key sectors like defence, telecommunications and finance, which rely on precise signals for accurate positioning, navigation and timing.
BSV Ventures
A leading early Pre-Seed and Seed stage investor specialising in DeepTech, life sciences, and dual-use technologies that enables early-stage innovators from the Baltics and the EU to build and internationally scale their businesses.
Expeditions
Expeditions is a leading early-stage investor in European security that backs ambitious founders at the intersection of security and deep tech, across sectors such as cybersecurity, intelligence, autonomy, AI, quantum, privacy, communications and space.
Faber PT
Based in Portugal, seeds deep tech in Southern Europe, with a focus on pre-seed and seed-stage startups in applied science & digital transformation. Faber invests in emerging technologies like AI, robotics, computational bio and chemistry, data infrastructure and novel computatio…
Fractile
This AI company develops transformative computing technology to enhance collective AI capabilities by enabling the largest and most capable neural networks of today and tomorrow to run faster, more efficiently and sustainably.
Isar Aerospace
This company launches small and medium-sized satellites and satellite constellations into Earth’s orbit to ensure flexible and cost-efficient access to space for governments, institutions, and companies.
Join Capital
Berlin-based early-stage venture capital fund, focused on deep tech investments across industrial and enterprise tech.
Kongsberg Ferrotech
Kongsberg Ferrotech is a pioneer in robotic solutions for the inspection, maintenance and repair (IMR) of critical offshore infrastructure – from oil and gas pipelines, to power and fibreoptic cables. With growing threats to subsea cables, energy pipelines, and maritime hubs, Kon…
Kraken GB
Kraken Technology Group is a UK-based autonomous maritime company, which pioneers cost-effective, open-architecture USVs at sea or surveillance, force protection, and multi-domain operations. Kraken’s modular, scalable, production-ready platforms enhance naval capabilities at low…
Kreios
Spanish startup Kreios Space allows satellites to operate in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO) – a region once considered unreachable, announces the largest ever European round in this space. By flying between 150 and 400 kilometers above the planet, Kreios’ satellites can capture imag…
OTB Ventures
Early growth (Seed and Series A) deep tech fund originating from Central Europe, with investment focus in spacetech, enterprise automation & AI, cybersecurity, and fintech infrastructure.
Portal
Portal Biotech is a pioneering biotechnology company, set to deliver the “holy grail” of full-length single-molecule protein sequencing. Their never-before-accomplished breakthrough promises transformative impact on drug discovery, precision medicine, and global biosecurity.
SatVu
SatVu is a space-based thermal intelligence company, whose imagery can unlock activity insights previously unavailable from commercial sources.
Simera Sense DFM profile
Simera Sense develops high resolution optical and multispectral cameras that provide crucial data about activities on the Earth’s surface as well as in the vicinity of critical assets in space. The cameras can be deployed across a range of earth observation and space situational …
Space Forge
A company that utilises the space environment to manufacture advanced semiconductor materials for critical infrastructure, ensuring more powerful and resilient capabilities across telecommunications, aerospace, and quantum.
Stark
STARK’s unmanned systems are designed to meet the realities of modern conflict: AI-enabled, software-defined, and ready for affordable production at scale.
Tekever
An AI-enabled Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) company that surveys ultra-wide areas and shares real-time data, which allows customers to act in a timely and efficient manner to avoid threats to human life, the environment and economy. This technology can help detect environmental t…
Twin Track Ventures
Twin Track Ventures is a deep tech fund, which invests and supports pre-seed and seed startups that serve both commercial, and defence and security customers. The fund targets investment sizes ranging from £150K to £500K with a focus on compute, communications, sensors and supply…
Uplift360
Uplift360 is an advanced materials start-up transforming how aerospace, defence and industrial sectors recover and reuse high-value composite waste.
Vsquared Ventures
Invests in early stage deep tech companies that are building groundbreaking technologies addressing some of society’s most pressing challenges, to become global leaders out of Europe. Vsquared focuses on AI & next-gen software, energy transition, new computing and sensing, new sp…
iCOMAT
This advanced composite manufacturing company delivers lighter, stronger and more sustainable structures for aerospace and automotive vehicles faster and more cost-effectively.
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