Weekly Digest: Auterion raising $200M at $1.2B valuation, Uforce’s unicorn debut, and Anthropic’s Pentagon standoff
Good afternoon from the team at Resilience Media Drones that cost $25,000 should not be shot down with $1M Tomahawk missiles. This is the lesson from Ukraine, and is now what we’re seeing as the US-Israeli assault on Iran continues. In modern warfare, startup technology is the equaliser. Should the...
NATO Innovation Fund appoints a president, Ari Kristinn Jónsson
The NATO Innovation Fund, the VC formed out of the strategic alliance of NATO countries that counts most (but not...
Read moreDetailsIf Russia Wins: Lessons for the UK and Europe
In the build-up to the Munich Security Conference (MSC), I finally read a book many had recommended. Carlo Masala’s ‘If...
Read moreDetailsThe second valley of death
Every founder knows about the first valley of death – that phase where you're doing everything possible to find your...
Read moreDetailsEurope’s cloud future is about collaboration
For years, data sovereignty had been treated as a theoretical concern – debated in policy circles yet usually deferred behind...
Read moreDetailsCapital under siege: Sanctions, supply chains and politics now drive VC decisions
For the last three decades, European venture capital has benefited from a grand assumption that rarely makes it into pitch...
Read moreDetailsGuest Post: Where are Europe’s female defence tech leaders?
Kraken Technology recently hired Erica Dill-Russell as its new chief commercial officer – a potential “trailblazer“ of a move in the market, given how...
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