NATO supports the first cohort of European dual-used startups

Both Vice President J.D. V. Vance and US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses noisy noise Friday about Europe, stepping up to the plate by spending more on its own defense might surprise Europe already Especially on the path to much greater investment in defense in technology.

There’s not only investment in “defense, resilience, security” (DSR) technologies. 10% of all VC funds in Europe reached an all-time highhowever, the UK and NATO stepped up this week by launching a cohort of first NATO-approved startups under North Atlantic defence innovation accelerators (Diana) Programme, in cooperation with the UK

Diana introduces new technologies from startups in NATO countries, including a network of 23 related accelerator sites and 182 test centres. It is designed to connect defense personnel, startups and defense “prime” contractors.

UK Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA) He leads the UK front in partnership with IoT tribe that will turn into the head in order. Janus Consortium on Dual Use Technology. This includes Atmos VC, Deep Tech Investor, and SetSquared partnerships, a collaboration between six research-led UK universities and various partners in the defense industry. The “Janus” Monica comes from the Roman god of duality and reflects the dual use of both civilians and defence techniques that emerge from the program.

The first cohort of 5 Startups He has now been selected for the 6-month program using DASA. The company is spreading to AI, electronics, semiconductors and materials science, and has been selected from 2,400 applications.

In a call with TechCrunch, IoT Tribe CEO Tanya Suarez said 74 companies have been selected, moved forward, and five have passed through London’s Accelerator.

“With DASA, we raced to defend the UK, bought additional capacity within this system and passed by our company,” she said. “The cohorts we are experiencing now answer the surveillance and sensing calls, so we are looking at the technologies that can be used to essentially monitor either people or equipment.”

“We have a close link to our customers beyond defense, and we also get a truly amazing sense of the problems and the challenges they are trying to overcome,” she added.

“Through our partnership with Dasa and NATO Diana, we are rapidly tracking the development of dual-use technologies.

The selected startups are:

• You have a poem (France) “An artificial intelligence (AI) company that addresses the challenges surrounding image accessibility, quality, privacy, accuracy and labeling to train computer vision models.”
• E- (Finland) “The company, founded by university researchers, aims to commercialize induced junction black silicon photodiodes.”
• Metahelio (UK) “We are building imaging technologies for industry through our nanotechnology approach.”
• rvmagnetics (Slovakia) “A high-tech company in the field of microwave-based sensors and identification technologies.”
• Winse Power (Finland) “Companies that develop optical links are solutions for delivering power and data with optical fiber, using applications in the sensing and surveillance sectors.”