Good afternoon and welcome to Resilience Media.
Welcome to the first issue of Resilience Media. At Resilience Conference in September we brought together top investors and startups in defence and security with leadership from the military and national security community. The conference featured panels and breakout sessions moderated by some of the leading journalists in this sector. At the conference we announced Resilience Media, which will become the publication of record for the emerging defence and security technology sector.
We have launched Resilience Media because we believe we are at the beginning of a new era that will see more conflicts, and a greater role of technology in fighting and winning wars. While the war in Ukraine has shown that warfare still involves trenches and tanks, it also now includes rapidly evolving tech innovation. Resilience Media will cover the emergence of this new era of technology and warfare. Our aim is to help coordinate the information to support the sector as it grows. Read on for more.
-Tobias and Leslie
From investing in defence twenty years ago to leading Helsing’s latest funding round, Managing Director and leader of the Global Resilience investment team, Paul Kwan sits down with Resilience Media and shares why investing in defence matters to him and to General Catalyst. Read the interview here.
If you missed Paul on our stage, watch the video of his fireside chat with Helsing co-founder and co-CEO, Dr Gundbert Scherf on our Youtube channel.
Resilience Media is supporting an important piece of research into this sector: the Working with Defence and Security 2024 survey, produced by Nicola Sinclair and Roland Ulfsted. Read how you can help us gather the views of defence and dual-use founders in an anonymised study over the next four weeks, with the goal of creating data to map the defence and security startup ecosystem.
The Latvian and Estonian Defence Tech Meetups took place in recently, bringing together government, startups, military, and investors. Highlights included discussions about the ‘Eastern Flank’, Ukrainian soldiers buying directly from startups during a pitch event, and what the future of the conflict might hold. Read about Tallinn here and Riga here.
Artificial Intelligence
War and Peace in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Drones
Drone Manufacturer Skydio Raises $170M Extension Round
How Estonia is Becoming a Hotbed for Drone Warfare
Foreign Affairs
Space
SpaceX signs second commercial deal for Starship lunar lander with Lunar Outpost
The Exploration Company — building European sovereignty in the space industry
Podcasts
European Defence in the New Trump Era
There’s still time to register for the European Defence Tech Hackathon in Paris, 29 November-1 December. Apply here.
