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Resilience Conference 2025: Big Takeaways from Helsing, General Catalyst, Auterion, Cambridge Aerospace
Issue 42: The biggest takeaways from the Resilience Conference 2025 stage featuring Helsing’s Torsten Reil, General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, Cambridge Aerospace, Kusti Salm, and more
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Helsing and General Catalyst took the stage, the 2025 State of Defence Tech Report, Auterion unveiled its long-range strike drone, Cambridge Aerospace disclosed $136 million in funding, Stratis Intelligence formally launched, and more.
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
How prepared are we for a nuclear missile attack? Do we have the technology to respond and protect ourselves? Here's a look into the plausibility of a new Netflix thriller asking these very questions.
Hollywood Versus Reality and What A House of Dynamite Gets Right
How prepared are we for a nuclear missile attack? Do we have the technology to respond and protect ourselves? Here's a look into the plausibility of a new Netflix thriller asking these very questions.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How prepared are we for a nuclear missile attack? Do we have the technology to respond and protect ourselves? Here's a look into the plausibility of a new Netflix thriller asking these very questions.
Quaze says its technology can turn anything into a portable power station, thereby allowing flying, swimming, and crawling robots to recharge on the go.
The company describes its QU6 turnkey wireless charging platform as, “the fuel pump robotics has been waiting for.”
The company describes its QU6 turnkey wireless charging platform as, “the fuel pump robotics has been waiting for.”
Quaze Turns Nearly Anything Into A Charging Surface for Drones
Quaze Technologies has turned a theoretical idea into field-ready hardware.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Quaze says its technology can turn anything into a portable power station, thereby allowing flying, swimming, and crawling robots to recharge on the go.
The company describes its QU6 turnkey wireless charging platform as, “the fuel pump robotics has been waiting for.”
The company describes its QU6 turnkey wireless charging platform as, “the fuel pump robotics has been waiting for.”
HyperBunker, the cybersecurity startup promising to make ransomware attacks survivable, has secured €800,000 in seed funding to expand production and push into EMEA and the United States.
HyperBunker Raises €800K To Build Data Bunkers For The Digital Battlefield
The seed funding will enable the startup to scale production of its “data bunker”, a physically air-gapped vault designed to keep critical military data safe from ransomware
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October 15, 2025 at 7:50 PM
HyperBunker, the cybersecurity startup promising to make ransomware attacks survivable, has secured €800,000 in seed funding to expand production and push into EMEA and the United States.
Taiwan wants to be a major dual-use drone supplier to the democratic world, but first it must face a more urgent task: scaling up the production capacity it needs for its own defence.
Taiwan's drone industry: vertical take-off
Taiwan wants to be a major dual-use drone supplier to the democratic world, but first it must face a more urgent task: scaling up the production capacity it needs for its own defence
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October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Taiwan wants to be a major dual-use drone supplier to the democratic world, but first it must face a more urgent task: scaling up the production capacity it needs for its own defence.
Helsing, the AI defence technology startup, is taking big plunge into expanding in the marine sector.
It is acquiring Blue Ocean, an Australian company that develops autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine technology. Read more:
It is acquiring Blue Ocean, an Australian company that develops autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine technology. Read more:
Helsing Acquires Blue Ocean to Rev Up Its Marine Business
Helsing sees strong demand in submarine systems, and now it is buying one of its closest partners in that space to plunge deeper into the opportunity
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October 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Helsing, the AI defence technology startup, is taking big plunge into expanding in the marine sector.
It is acquiring Blue Ocean, an Australian company that develops autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine technology. Read more:
It is acquiring Blue Ocean, an Australian company that develops autonomous underwater vehicles and other submarine technology. Read more:
Helsing and General Catalyst took the stage, the 2025 State of Defence Tech Report, Auterion unveiled its long-range strike drone, Cambridge Aerospace disclosed $136 million in funding, Stratis Intelligence formally launched, and more.
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
Resilience Conference 2025: Big Takeaways from Helsing, General Catalyst, Auterion, Cambridge Aerospace
Issue 42: The biggest takeaways from the Resilience Conference 2025 stage featuring Helsing’s Torsten Reil, General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg, Cambridge Aerospace, Kusti Salm, and more
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October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Helsing and General Catalyst took the stage, the 2025 State of Defence Tech Report, Auterion unveiled its long-range strike drone, Cambridge Aerospace disclosed $136 million in funding, Stratis Intelligence formally launched, and more.
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
Full recap of Resilience Conference 2025 ⬇️
Anduril and Kraken Technology Group have told Resilience Media about defence tech they have developed which the UK Government could choose to deploy to protect the UK’s subsea cables from Russian interference.
Anduril and Kraken Share Tech the UK Could Use to Defend Subsea Cables
A new wave of AI-powered vessels and software is making its way into our waters
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October 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Anduril and Kraken Technology Group have told Resilience Media about defence tech they have developed which the UK Government could choose to deploy to protect the UK’s subsea cables from Russian interference.
European defence tech has raised a record $1.5 billion in venture capital this year.
The influx is not only of cash, but new priorities and attitudes to development, said Kusti Salm, CEO of missile company Frankenburg Technologies.
Now, it’s founders who define the requirements, he said.
The influx is not only of cash, but new priorities and attitudes to development, said Kusti Salm, CEO of missile company Frankenburg Technologies.
Now, it’s founders who define the requirements, he said.
Frankenburg CEO: A Flood of Funding for European Defence Tech is Disrupting the Days of ‘800 Pages of Spec’
The pool of capital getting deployed into resilience startups is leading to faster dealmaking, said Kusti Salm, one of the founders building interceptor technology
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October 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
European defence tech has raised a record $1.5 billion in venture capital this year.
The influx is not only of cash, but new priorities and attitudes to development, said Kusti Salm, CEO of missile company Frankenburg Technologies.
Now, it’s founders who define the requirements, he said.
The influx is not only of cash, but new priorities and attitudes to development, said Kusti Salm, CEO of missile company Frankenburg Technologies.
Now, it’s founders who define the requirements, he said.
Commcrete is emerging from stealth armed with $29 million in funding.
The startup has built hardware and software that compress the functionality of clunky and expensive satellite packs into handheld boxes that weigh just 150 grams.
The startup has built hardware and software that compress the functionality of clunky and expensive satellite packs into handheld boxes that weigh just 150 grams.
Commcrete Connects With $29M to Reinvent Satellite Communications
The startup is building a revolutionary approach to making satcoms mobile, opening the door to devices that can evade Electronic Warfare
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September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Commcrete is emerging from stealth armed with $29 million in funding.
The startup has built hardware and software that compress the functionality of clunky and expensive satellite packs into handheld boxes that weigh just 150 grams.
The startup has built hardware and software that compress the functionality of clunky and expensive satellite packs into handheld boxes that weigh just 150 grams.
Ingvar Helgason formally launches Stratis Intelligence, a new European big data startup.
Announced Tuesday on stage at Resilience Conference, Stratis Intelligence is Darkstar’s largest investment to date – a mission-driven startup with a focus on Ukraine and strengthening European tech sovereignty.
Announced Tuesday on stage at Resilience Conference, Stratis Intelligence is Darkstar’s largest investment to date – a mission-driven startup with a focus on Ukraine and strengthening European tech sovereignty.
Stratis, a Mysterious Icelandic Startup, Emerges from Stealth to Build a ‘Palantir for Europe’
Darkstar writes its biggest cheque yet to back the mission-led startup focused on Ukraine and European tech sovereignty
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September 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Ingvar Helgason formally launches Stratis Intelligence, a new European big data startup.
Announced Tuesday on stage at Resilience Conference, Stratis Intelligence is Darkstar’s largest investment to date – a mission-driven startup with a focus on Ukraine and strengthening European tech sovereignty.
Announced Tuesday on stage at Resilience Conference, Stratis Intelligence is Darkstar’s largest investment to date – a mission-driven startup with a focus on Ukraine and strengthening European tech sovereignty.
At Resilience Conference, Helsing’s Torsten Reil and General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg discussed Helsing's evolving “ethics muscle,” poaching top talent from U.S. tech firms like Meta, Tesla and Palantir, and, ultimately, the company’s core success metric: the safety of democracy itself.
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 AM
At Resilience Conference, Helsing’s Torsten Reil and General Catalyst’s Jeannette zu Fürstenberg discussed Helsing's evolving “ethics muscle,” poaching top talent from U.S. tech firms like Meta, Tesla and Palantir, and, ultimately, the company’s core success metric: the safety of democracy itself.
Klaus Hommels, the VC who helped found NIF, is stepping down as chairman, and Dame Fiona Murray, who had been vice-chair, is stepping up into the head role.
Klaus Hommels Steps Down As Chair of NIF
Dame Fiona Murray steps into the top role as the founding chairman moves into a new position heading up a new outside advisory council
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September 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Klaus Hommels, the VC who helped found NIF, is stepping down as chairman, and Dame Fiona Murray, who had been vice-chair, is stepping up into the head role.
“We see ourselves as a war tech company,” Lorenz Meier (Auterion CEO) said at Resilience Conference. “What we in the West have to make sure is that we are achieving supremacy in autonomy first. And that means on the battlefield in Ukraine today, in Taiwan tomorrow, and in the commercial industry."
Auterion Raises €130M, Unveils Long-Range Strike Drone, and Pushes into Ukraine and Taiwan
Auterion, the European drone software start-up, has raised €130 million (US$152 million) in one of the largest defence tech rounds in Europe this year, underscoring investor appetite for companies res...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
“We see ourselves as a war tech company,” Lorenz Meier (Auterion CEO) said at Resilience Conference. “What we in the West have to make sure is that we are achieving supremacy in autonomy first. And that means on the battlefield in Ukraine today, in Taiwan tomorrow, and in the commercial industry."
NEW: State of Defence Tech 2025 report, co-published with Dealroom.
New data, revealed on stage at Resilience Conference, shows that VC funding into European defence tech has roughly doubled in the past year. So far in 2025, the sector has raised a record $1.5B.
See the full report ⬇️
New data, revealed on stage at Resilience Conference, shows that VC funding into European defence tech has roughly doubled in the past year. So far in 2025, the sector has raised a record $1.5B.
See the full report ⬇️
European defence tech funding surges
Startups to net more than double the VC cash in 2025, outpacing all other sectors, according to a new report from Dealroom and Resilience Media
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September 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
NEW: State of Defence Tech 2025 report, co-published with Dealroom.
New data, revealed on stage at Resilience Conference, shows that VC funding into European defence tech has roughly doubled in the past year. So far in 2025, the sector has raised a record $1.5B.
See the full report ⬇️
New data, revealed on stage at Resilience Conference, shows that VC funding into European defence tech has roughly doubled in the past year. So far in 2025, the sector has raised a record $1.5B.
See the full report ⬇️
Inside Ukraine's Defence Tech Valley: A TLK-1000 on display, a $100M defense tech moment, and foreigners seek learnings from the "Ukrainian experience."
Defence Tech Valley 2025: Kicking Around Military Innovation at a Football Pitch
The best defence is a good offence, as the saying goes, and the second edition of the investor conference run by Brave1 drew crowds that are learning that lesson on the battlefield itself
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September 22, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Inside Ukraine's Defence Tech Valley: A TLK-1000 on display, a $100M defense tech moment, and foreigners seek learnings from the "Ukrainian experience."
🔊 Announcing the full agenda for Resilience Conference 2025.
Across fireside chats, panels, and breakout sessions, we will explore the forces driving change: from AI and encryption to industrial resilience, hypersonics, and the real lessons from Ukraine.
Discover the full agenda 👇
Across fireside chats, panels, and breakout sessions, we will explore the forces driving change: from AI and encryption to industrial resilience, hypersonics, and the real lessons from Ukraine.
Discover the full agenda 👇
Resilience Conference 2025 | Full Agenda
From Ukraine’s frontline to European unicorns, NATO's biggest investors and military leaders, discover what happens next, in technology, investment, tactics, and geopolitics
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September 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
🔊 Announcing the full agenda for Resilience Conference 2025.
Across fireside chats, panels, and breakout sessions, we will explore the forces driving change: from AI and encryption to industrial resilience, hypersonics, and the real lessons from Ukraine.
Discover the full agenda 👇
Across fireside chats, panels, and breakout sessions, we will explore the forces driving change: from AI and encryption to industrial resilience, hypersonics, and the real lessons from Ukraine.
Discover the full agenda 👇
Falcons develops vertically-integrated technologies – physical equipment and the software needed to run it – for users to track activity in GPS-denied environments.
Falcons snaps up funding from Green Flag
The Ukrainian startup, which develops hardware and software solutions for detecting activity in GPS-denied environments, will be using the money for R&D and to aim for NATO certification
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September 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Falcons develops vertically-integrated technologies – physical equipment and the software needed to run it – for users to track activity in GPS-denied environments.
Defence expos like DSEI are no longer only about tanks, guns and submarines. The rise of AI, electronic warfare and the weaponised internet has turned them into tech shows.
GUEST POST: A Journey to DSEI Through the Disinformation Looking Glass
Defence expos are no longer only about tanks, guns and submarines. The rise of AI, electronic warfare and the weaponised internet has turned them into tech shows, says one refugee-turned-founder
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September 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Defence expos like DSEI are no longer only about tanks, guns and submarines. The rise of AI, electronic warfare and the weaponised internet has turned them into tech shows.
The ambition is to create what Aechelon calls the “operating system for human-AI interaction.” That phrase captures both the promise and the risk: this is not just another visualization tool, but potentially a backbone for how machines and humans perceive and act upon the world together.
Project Orbion: Building the Earth’s First AI-Enabled Digital Twin
Aechelon Technology, long known in defence circles for its geospatial simulation and Synthetic Reality training systems, has launched Project Orbion in collaboration with Niantic Spatial, ICEYE, Black...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The ambition is to create what Aechelon calls the “operating system for human-AI interaction.” That phrase captures both the promise and the risk: this is not just another visualization tool, but potentially a backbone for how machines and humans perceive and act upon the world together.
"For the first time, every NATO ally can wield Silicon Valley style speed, agility, and continuous innovation in the service of peace through strength,” says Chad Steelberg, the CEO and co-founder of Tiberius.
Militaries want to tap startup innovation: Tiberius has built Grail to get them on track
Slow-moving, incumbent primes dominate the procurement landscape today. Now, a wave of new collaboration platforms aims to disrupt that supply chain for the better
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September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"For the first time, every NATO ally can wield Silicon Valley style speed, agility, and continuous innovation in the service of peace through strength,” says Chad Steelberg, the CEO and co-founder of Tiberius.
Helsing, the defence tech startup now valued at over $13 billion, is building out a network of partnerships to embed itself deeper into the military ecosystem to grow its business.
Helsing integrates with Systematic to power drone swarms and more
A high-profile startup links up with a legacy player as militaries build more AI into their strategies.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Helsing, the defence tech startup now valued at over $13 billion, is building out a network of partnerships to embed itself deeper into the military ecosystem to grow its business.
Russia and others have spent years investing in information warfare and offensive strategies. Their playbook remains largely the same. What’s changed are the tools — generative AI made delivery and production of disinformation scalable and faster. How can democracies fight back?
Guest Post: Why the Authoritarian Playbook Works in Information Warfare, and What to Do About It
The West has clung to the illusion that war begins with tanks crossing borders and missiles filling the sky — and ends with peace treaties. But modern conflict starts much earlier and last far longer
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September 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Russia and others have spent years investing in information warfare and offensive strategies. Their playbook remains largely the same. What’s changed are the tools — generative AI made delivery and production of disinformation scalable and faster. How can democracies fight back?
Offset Labs is the first defence and national security lab, built on real world experience by a UK-Ukrainian team split between London and Kyiv.
EXCLUSIVE: Archangel Backs Offset Labs, a UK-Ukrainian AI Defence Venture
Offset Labs is the first defence and national security lab, built on real world experience by a UK-Ukrainian team split between London and Kyiv
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September 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Offset Labs is the first defence and national security lab, built on real world experience by a UK-Ukrainian team split between London and Kyiv.
Building a 'Stripe for security', the Israeli startup aims to plug the many gaps and extra work created by existing cybersecurity apps.
Sola Raises $35M to Ramp Up Its AI-based Cybersecurity Tooling
Building a 'Stripe for security', the Israeli startup aims to plug the many gaps and extra work created by existing cybersecurity apps
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September 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Building a 'Stripe for security', the Israeli startup aims to plug the many gaps and extra work created by existing cybersecurity apps.
Phasecraft is focusing on building algorithms that can run on the limited quantum compute power that we have today, in anticipation of the next generation of machines that will be more powerful.
Phasecraft, a specialist in quantum algorithms, raises $34M
The startup develops software to get the best out of the quantum machines we have today, to address the problems of tomorrow
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September 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Phasecraft is focusing on building algorithms that can run on the limited quantum compute power that we have today, in anticipation of the next generation of machines that will be more powerful.