With both Vice President JD Vance and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth making loud noises on Friday about Europe rising to the plate to spend more on its defense, it may come as a surprise that Europe is already On the way to much greater investment in defense, especially in technology.
Not only investments in “protection, resistance and security” (DSR) technology reached 10% of all VC funds in Europe, but the United Kingdom and NATO have now increased this week with the beginning of the first First, the Startup group approved by NATO under its accelerator of the Innovation of Defense for the North Atlantic Program (Diana), in partnership with the United Kingdom
Diana brings new technologies from the beginnings for NATO countries and includes a network of 23 countries of the connected accelerator and 182 test centers. Designed is created to link defense personnel, beginnings and “Prime Minister” defense.
The United Kingdom Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) is leading the UK front, in partnership with the IOT tribe, which in turn heads the Janus consortium for double -use technologies. This also includes ATO VC, a deep technology investor and established partnership (a collaboration between the six universities led by the UK research and a number of defense industry partners). The “Janus” moniker comes from the Roman god of duality, reflecting the nature of the double use of civil technology and protection that will come out of the program.
The first group of five startups is now selected for a six-month DASA program. Companies have spread to him, electronics, semiconductors and science of materials, and were chosen by 2,400 applications.
On a call with Techcrunch, Tanya Suarez, CEO and Iot Fibe, said 74 companies were elected and taken forward, with the five who passed the accelerator in London.
“With DASA, we develop the UK protection competitions, and we have bought additional capacities within this system to also set up our companies,” she said. “The groups that are currently passing to the call for supervision and felt. So we are seeing technologies that can be used to essentially monitor people or equipment. “
“We really have close ties to our clients throughout the protection, plus we have a really great understanding of the problems and challenges they are trying to overcome,” she added.
“Through DASA’s partnership with NATO Diana, we are rapidly following the development of double-use technologies … which will benefit from military and civilian applications throughout the alliance.”
The beginnings selected are:
- The string of he (France) “An artificial intelligence company (AI) that addresses the challenges associated with access, quality, privacy, accuracy and labeling of images for training computer vision models.”
- EIFys (Finland) “Founded by university researchers, the company aims to commercialize the photodiodes of the cross -crucified silicon.”
- Methelios (MB) “Enterprise Building Image technologies for industry through a nanotechnological approach.”
- Rvmagnetics (Slovakia) “A high -tech company in the field of microwave -based identification sensors and technologies.”
- Winse Power (Finland) “A company that develops optal connections, a solution for energy distribution and light data, with applications in the felt and supervision fields.”
