Defence startups

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Pitching on Day 2 | 09:33

ÆTHERION Space and Defence

ÆTHERION Space & Defence is a Luxembourg defence-tech company developing a distributed mmWave radar mesh and Vigil software to detect and track low-flying drones around military and critical infrastructure sites. By combining multiple low-cost radar nodes into a single live picture, the system is designed to reduce blind zones created by...

Pitching on Day 2 | 09:24

Certanix

Certanix uses AI to test AI: it stress-tests drones, robots and other autonomous AI systems across thousands of simulated scenarios, for civil and defence use alike. Every result is sealed in a cryptographically signed evidence pack that anyone can verify offline, even inside an air-gapped defence environment, with no need to trust the...

Pitching on Day 2 | 09:42

DATAMBIT

Datambit is a defence AI company specialising in Information Integrity and Cognitive Security, detecting deepfakes, AI-generated deception and spoofing across audio, video and live streams. Its technology has been validated through NATO DIANA, multinational military exercises, the UK Royal Navy, and the UK Home Office / Homeland Security,...

Pitching on Day 2 | 10:00

FNAV Systems

FNAV Systems builds passive, unjammable navigation for autonomous systems in GPS-denied environments.

Pitching on Day 2 | 11:15

HCP Technologies

HCP Technologies builds high-speed interceptor drones designed to detect, track, and neutralize aerial threats in seconds. Every airframe is engineered from the ground up with Design for Manufacturing at its core and optimized for fully automated, repeatable production at scale. The result: interceptors that combine race-grade speed and precision...

Pitching on Day 2 | 09:15

Koaloo.fi

Koaloo.fi is a multi-awarded supply chain intelligence platform, recognized as Fintech of the Year, that transforms routine data collection into an immediate profit and resilience opportunity. By combining personalized coaching with access to up to 3x cheaper financing, it empowers your suppliers to proactively optimize and secure their...

Pitching on Day 2 | 10:30

Lanka Robotics

Autonomy for unmanned ground vehicles that works without GPS, maps, or stable connectivity. We build the navigation layer that keeps UGVs completing missions even when operators can't control them.

Pitching on Day 2 | 10:48

MeGoElectric UA

MeGoElectric UA develops high-speed modular electric vehicle platforms for defence and dual-use applications. Our flagship product, SHNEP, is a high-speed UGV designed for frontline logistics and casualty evacuation, with its core technologies transferable to civilian mobility solutions.

Pitching on Day 2 | 10:39

Rhoshield Swarm AI

Rhoshield is building a multi-functional Drone fleet to run customer operations from defence to industrial need. Scaling customer solution based on the need and size of the operations. Rhoshield partners together with industry hardware manufactures creating fully autonomous systems.

Pitching on Day 2 | 09:51

Sentinel

OI builds the capabilities to detect, characterise and respond to threats in the orbital domain. Orbit is becoming more congested, more contested and harder to read than at any point in its history. The systems that keep it safe are built by us.

Pitching on Day 2 | 10:57

USIL Therapeutics

USIL Therapeutics is developing the first multi-organ treatment for acute radiation injury caused by nuclear or radiological exposure. Our dual-use medical countermeasure is designed for military, civil protection and emergency preparedness applications, addressing a critical capability gap in radiation response.

Pitching on Day 2 | 11:06

Zero Gauss

A Luxembourg-based pre-seed high-power microwave company built for the drone era, where every intercept still uses ammunition that must be bought, built, and resupplied. Our ammunition is electricity: a focused microwave pulse disables or fries a drone's electronics for about €1 per shot, including fibre-optic drones that jamming cannot...

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