The European Defence Tech Hub hackathon in Munich in February, 2025. Courtesy of Anne Sraders
It’s snowing about an hour outside Munich city centre, and a recruiter from German autonomous drone startup Quantum Systems jokes that it’s like “Christmas”. He isn’t referring to the weather though. Instead, he’s talking about the host of hardware parts the startup’s lending to engineers to help them build their startup ideas at a European Defence Tech Hub (EDTH) hackathon, a four-day event coinciding with the Munich Security Conference and the first in Ukrainian defence innovation platform Brave1’s Global Defence Tech Hackathon series.
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Anne Sraders is a senior reporter at Sifted, based in Berlin. She covers the VC industry and deeptech startups. She also writes Sifted's weekly VC newsletter Up Round. Follow her on X and LinkedIn