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Defence, security and resilience funding in Europe grew 4x in 5 years: Sander Verbrugge

2026-03-27 · 4 company · 5 thematic

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Partner at the NATO Innovation Fund, a multi-sovereign venture fund backed by 24 NATO allies investing in defense, security, and resilience technologies. Previously at Innovation Industries. Leads investments in dual-use deep tech and works with the fund's mission platform group connecting portfolio companies to MoD demand signals.

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“We recently reported... the DSR ecosystem has significantly grown from a venture capital investment perspective over 25... compared to over the last 5 years, it has even grown 4x. So the market growing as a whole four times in 5 years clea…”

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