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November 14, 2025

The European founders making defence angel bets

From ARX Robotics’ cofounder to ICEYE’s CEO, defence founders are increasingly making their own bets on the sector


Anne Sraders

4 min read

Florian Seibel, cofounder and co-CEO of Quantum Systems. Courtesy of Quantum Systems

The defence tech boom has ploughed hundreds of millions of euros into startups in the last year. And some of those defence founders are in turn actively angel investing in the sector, along with several founders outside of defence.

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Anne Sraders

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

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