Exclusive: Lendurai and Uvision sign partnership deal
Estonia’s Lendurai, the defence tech developing AI-enabled autonomy solutions for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), has signed a partnership with Israeli smart integrated systems and loitering munitions company Uvision. Lendurai will develop software capabilities based on its Neocortex autonomy technology and Uvision will lead on integrating these into its advanced unmanned...
Tekever raises $580M at a $6.8B valuation to give flight to more drones
Another huge fundraise has landed in the world of European defence tech. Tekever, the autonomous air systems startup founded in...
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TERASi raises €11m to scale secure battlefield communications
Swedish defence technology company TERASi has raised €11 million to expand its millimetre-wave communications technology across European armed forces and...
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Finland’s NestAI expands to Estonia
NestAI, a defence tech startup from Finland backed by Nokia, is taking the next step in its strategy to build...
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UK and US deepen AI defence ties after uncrewed torpedo first
The UK and US are launching a new defence partnership focused on artificial intelligence and autonomous systems, as the allies...
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ARX Robotics wants its land drones fighting alongside Britain’s Ajax vehicles
German defence startup ARX Robotics is working with General Dynamics Land Systems UK to integrate autonomous ground vehicles with the...
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Iceland’s Laki Power charges up with €6M from NIF because electric grids are under threat
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
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
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 Industries puts $1M into Aeon, a Nigerian cybersecurity startup
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
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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