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Germany has Europe’s biggest defence budget. Startups don’t get much of it

byPaul Sawers
September 21, 2026
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News

A pattern is emerging among European defence-tech startups looking for sales: plenty of money is up for grabs, but the path to securing a contract remains rocky at best. In June, Keen Venture Partners published its inaugural guide to Dutch defence procurement, identifying recurring traps including founders engaging without knowing...

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Iceland’s Laki Power charges up with €6M from NIF because electric grids are under threat

byIngrid Lunden
September 21, 2026

The NATO Innovation Fund is making another resilience tech investment out of its €1 billion+ coffer, and it happens also...

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Germany has Europe’s biggest defence budget. Startups don’t get much of it

byPaul Sawers
September 21, 2026

A pattern is emerging among European defence-tech startups looking for sales: plenty of money is up for grabs, but the...

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Denmark’s Final Frontier and Myriad join forces to create a new defence fund
European Defence

Denmark’s Final Frontier and Myriad join forces to create a new defence fund

byFiona Alston
September 21, 2026

It started with a cup of coffee and ended up in two Danish early stage New Nordics defence funds becoming...

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Terra bags $22M more to build out Africa’s first defence prime
Cyber

Terra Industries puts $1M into Aeon, a Nigerian cybersecurity startup

byIngrid Lunden
September 18, 2026

After closing its $52 million seed round with a bumper $18 million in August, Nigeria's Terra Industries is using some...

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The London Defence Tech Week programme is here
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The London Defence Tech Week programme is here

byLeslie Hitchcock
September 17, 2026

From 1-8 October, London Defence Tech Week brings together conferences, networking events, workshops, investor gatherings and partner events across London....

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The UK built and flew a new jet engine in under seven months
UK Defence

The UK built and flew a new jet engine in under seven months

byJohn Biggs
September 17, 2026

Like something out of James Bond's Q Branch, the UK has taken a new turbojet engine from concept to flight-ready...

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Canada’s SPARC AI launches GPS-free positioning for soldiers
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Canada’s SPARC AI launches GPS-free positioning for soldiers

byJohn Biggs
September 16, 2026

Canadian defense technology company SPARC AI has launched Overwatch Patrol, a positioning system designed to let soldiers track themselves and...

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Martin Herem appointed Estonia’s new defence minister
European Defence

Martin Herem appointed Estonia’s new defence minister

byIngrid Lunden
September 16, 2026

Two weeks after losing its defence minister amid a botched Ukraine procurement deal, Estonia has named a new person from...

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‘We’ve had the proliferation phase in Ukraine, now we go into consolidation’
Interview

‘We’ve had the proliferation phase in Ukraine, now we go into consolidation’

byLuke Smith
September 16, 2026

When the MITS Lightning Fund closed its first venture fund in May, its partners had raised slightly more than $20...

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Exein raises $270M to build embedded cybersecurity for physical AI systems
Cyber

Exein raises $270M to build embedded cybersecurity for physical AI systems

byIngrid Lunden
September 15, 2026

AI is powering an increasing array of hardware today, from robots and autonomous vehicles to drones and your phone. That...

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Open Cosmos fires up its satellite ambitions with €300M
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Open Cosmos fires up its satellite ambitions with €300M

byIngrid Lunden
September 14, 2026

Open Cosmos, a UK startup founded by three engineers from Spain, made a name for itself in 2015 when it...

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Isembard puts critical manufacturing minutes from Whitehall
News

Isembard puts critical manufacturing minutes from Whitehall

byCarly Page
September 14, 2026

British manufacturing startup Isembard has opened a 160,000 square-feet factory in central London that will produce components for defence, aerospace...

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Finland’s Creoir gets backing from Gungnir Capital for its on-device speech tech
News

Finland’s Creoir gets backing from Gungnir Capital for its on-device speech tech

byFiona Alston
September 14, 2026

Finland's Creoir, a developer of voice interface technology, has raised investment from Swedish VC Gungnir Capital. The funding is part...

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NewOrbit is heading lower to get a better look at Earth
News

NewOrbit is heading lower to get a better look at Earth

byJohn Biggs
September 14, 2026

The UK satellite manufacturer NewOrbit has secured a Q3 2028 launch slot for NEO-1, a commercial rideshare satellite designed to...

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Fortaegis raises $50M to scale secure silicon for defence
News

Fortaegis raises $50M to scale secure silicon for defence

byCarly Page
September 14, 2026

Amsterdam-based Fortaegis Technologies has raised $50 million to take its silicon-rooted security technology into mass production, as the company eyes...

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Mach Industries raises $600 million to build weapons at scale
News

Mach Industries raises $600 million to build weapons at scale

byJohn Biggs
September 11, 2026

U.S.-based defense startup Mach Industries has raised another $600 million as it begins to build its autonomous weapons at scale....

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News

Claude AI helped Russia-based threat actors develop autonomous kamikaze drone swarm

byCarly Page
September 11, 2026

A Russia-based threat actor used Anthropic’s Claude AI to help build an autonomous swarm of kamikaze drones capable of selecting...

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Something new, something BIG at Resilience Conference London
News

Meet the LAUNCH@RC and SCALE@RC 2026 Cohorts

byLeslie Hitchcock
September 11, 2026

This year, more than 100 companies applied to take part in LAUNCH@RC, our showcase for early-stage companies building across defence...

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Orbital inks deal with Germany’s Reflex to build AI data centres in space
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Orbital inks deal with Germany’s Reflex to build AI data centres in space

byIngrid Lunden
September 10, 2026

A new partnership between two startups in Germany and the US hopes to bring the moonshot concept of space data...

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Swarmer scoops up UGV maker Ratel Robotics in deal worth up to $224M
Drones & UAS

Swarmer scoops up UGV maker Ratel Robotics in deal worth up to $224M

byLuke Smithand1 others
September 10, 2026

Ukrainian-founded drone autonomy company Swarmer has agreed to acquire Ratel Robotics, one of Ukraine’s leading manufacturers of unmanned ground vehicles,...

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