We're pleased to share our investment in CamGraPhIC - a wholly owned subsidiary of 2D Photonics - whose innovative technology can improve energy efficiency and bandwidth in Artificial Intelligence and cellular data transfer. 🌍 The company will use this investment to grow its research and development capabilities in Pisa and establish a pilot manufacturing line in the Milan region. 🎉 Congrats to Ben Jensen and the team. Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/eWywZAy6
NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)
Durfkapitaal en privévermogen
Investing EUR 1 billion in deep tech to secure the future of the Alliance's 1 billion citizens
Over ons
The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is an independent venture capital firm backed by 24 NATO Allies. With a €1 billion flagship fund, the NIF will invest in advanced science and technology driven enterprises that will enhance our nations’ defence, security and resilience. For us, high-impact verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, materials science, and space. We are passionate about autonomy, new materials and quantum computing, and want to shore up cutting-edge hardware and software. We will directly invest into deep tech driven enterprises, identifying opportunities across all the 24 participating Allied nations, as well as into other funds who will help realise our mission of collective security and prosperity. Over time, the NIF’s investments will attract and encourage more like-minded investors, and help transform how nations and the private sector work together to face emerging challenges.
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https://www.nif.fund/
Externe link voor NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)
- Branche
- Durfkapitaal en privévermogen
- Bedrijfsgrootte
- 11 - 50 medewerkers
- Hoofdkantoor
- Amsterdam
- Type
- Particuliere onderneming
- Opgericht
- 2023
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Primair
Routebeschrijving
Amsterdam, NL
Medewerkers van NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)
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Our launch vehicle #Spectrum is on the pad. We are approaching our first test flight not earlier than Monday 24 March. The launch date remains subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure. Regardless of how far we come on this initial test flight, it will be a success for Isar Aerospace and a milestone to be proud of. Read more in an article by our CEO and Co-Founder Daniel Metzler: https://lnkd.in/d4C355MR ℹ️ Stay up to date with the latest information and mission updates in our newsroom: https://lnkd.in/dGm65TsQ #fromisartospace #goingfullspectrum Location: Andøya Spaceport
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The NATO STO Women & Girls in Science challenge allows researchers to share their proposals with the NATO STO, with the finalists joining a network of science and technology experts. Participants are invited to submit research ideas that they would you like to see NATO pursue over the next five years. Proposals should address one of five themes related to NATO priorities: 🔸 Deterrence: Deterrence and defence is one of NATO’s core tasks to safeguard the freedom and security of all Allies, against all threats, from all directions. Both threats and opportunities can come from the rapidly changing S&T landscape. 🔸 Energy: The disruption of energy supplies could affect security within NATO Nations and partner countries. New developments in S&T can provide long-lasting solutions. 🔸 Resilience: Resilience is the individual and collective capacity to prepare for, resist, respond to and quickly recover from shocks and disruptions, and to ensure the continuity of the Alliance’s activities. S&T can offer solutions to all aspects of resilience for the Alliance. 🔸 Space: Space underpins NATO's ability to navigate and track forces, to have robust communications, to detect missile launches, and to ensure effective command and control. S&T can provide both opportunities and address critical dependencies on space. 🔸Climate: The earth’s rapidly changing climate and extreme weather have led NATO to accelerate its efforts in environmental security and protection. S&T can offer many solutions to address climate change and security. Find more information ➡️ www.natostowgs.com #WGS25
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🎉 Congrats to our portfolio company Isar Aerospace for completing the final technical milestone for its first test flight. 🚀 Together, we can reach new heights.
Designed, built and tested ✅ Pending regulatory approval, we are Go for flight. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gjifBekn #fromisartospace
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As Europe is coming together to strengthen its technological edge, significant barriers to investing in Defence, Security and Resilience technologies remain. 💡 To help #deeptech companies in this sector grow, we need to help improve their access to capital, as well as connect them with pathways to technological adoption across European governments and industry. Read more in a new piece by Bloomberg 👇 https://lnkd.in/endnR7NK
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The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) will be in Paris next week for Hello Tomorrow 🇫🇷 🥐 Europe is at a pivotal moment to strengthen innovation in deep tech for defence, security, and resilience. If you’re a founder or investor driving transformative solutions, don’t miss this chance to connect—make sure to catch up with Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky and David Ordonez to discuss how we can shape the future of deep tech together 🇪🇺 🦾 #DeepTech #DSR #HelloTomorrow #NIF
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The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) investment in Space Forge isn’t just a milestone - it’s the most strategic investment to date and impacts the future of defence, sustainability, and supply chain resilience. 🔹 Why it matters: This partnership demonstrates the critical role that we play in the NATO alliance, unlocking a manufacturing supply chain that’s never been accessible before. 🔹 Semiconductors power everything, from defence systems to advanced infrastructure. With our returnable spacecraft, we’re revolutionising production. And in 2025? We take it further. We’ll showcase semiconductor production at scale and prove what our space capability can deliver for the alliance👇 https://lnkd.in/eyyAPtP8 #Innovation #AdvancedManufacturing #NATOInnovationFund
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🚀 Europe's Defence, Security and Resilience tech sector is growing faster than all other market segments. New research released today by Dealroom.co and NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) reveals the sector reached an all time high in 2024 with Munich claiming the top stop for startup investments. We are proud to be supporting this thriving ecosystem and excited to continue to back Europe's most promising #deeptech companies to secure the future of the Alliance's 1 billion citizens. Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/enugbAh4
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What happens when next-gen space manufacturing meets global security innovation? 🧐 We welcomed NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)’s Chris O'Connor to Space Forge HQ. As one of the funds first investments, we showcased how microgravity-made materials are set to revolutionise global infrastructure and resilience. Together, we’re building rock-solid supply chains for a stronger, more sustainable future because long-term prosperity is a win for every member of NATO's alliance. "The NATO Innovation Fund's support for Space Forge's ambition is a testament to what we're building.” – Joshua Western, CEO & Co-founder, Space Forge 👀 Listen in https://lnkd.in/efekxmGa #Microgravity #Manufacturing #Semiconductor
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Some of the most insightful conversations I've have had about the world of AI hardware and the future of the semiconductor industry have been with Pat Gelsinger, and I am absolutely thrilled to share his news that he is joining Fractile as an investor. Few people have had more impact on this world than Pat. All of us at Fractile are looking forward to continuing our work on building towards a generational leap in AI compute capability, with Pat in our corner! 🚀
Electrical engineering expert with four+ decades of technology leadership and experience
5 years ago, the world of computing was a bit boring. Add some cores, speed up IO, increment memory performance ... then, the AI/LLM explosion and the world is anything but boring today. A thrilling time to be a technologist, the world lies before us. However, Inference of frontier AI models is bottlenecked by hardware. Even before test-time compute scaling, cost and latency were huge challenges for large scale LLM deployments. With the advent of reasoning models, which require memory-bound generation of thousands of output tokens, the limitations of existing hardware roadmaps has compounded. To achieve our aspirations for AI, we will need radically faster, cheaper and much lower power inference. I’m pleased to share that I’ve recently invested in Fractile, a UK founded AI hardware company who are pursuing a path that’s radical enough to offer such a leap. Their in-memory compute approach to inference acceleration jointly tackles the two bottlenecks to scaling inference, overcoming both the memory bottleneck that holds back today’s GPUs, while decimating power consumption, the single biggest physical constraint we face over the next decade in scaling up data center capacity. In fact, some of the ideas I was exploring in my graduate work Stanford University will now come to mainstream AI computing! In the global race to build leading AI models, the role of inference performance is still under-appreciated. Being able to run any given model orders of magnitude faster, at a fraction of the cost and maybe most importantly at dramatically lower power envelop provides a performance leap equivalent to years of lead on model development. I look forward to advising the Fractile team as they tackle this vital challenge. Cheering you on Walter Goodwin and team!