After nearly 15 years, David Dana, the head of disruptive tech and innovation VC investments at Europe’s largest LP, the European Investment Fund (EIF), is joining aerospace and defence VC Expansion Ventures as a general partner.

Exclusive: former EIF investor David Dana joins space and defence VC
Dana spent nearly 15 years as an LP at the EIF — which he says is experiencing ‘ongoing changes’
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