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November 19, 2024

€1bn Nato Innovation Fund’s founding and managing partners depart a year after launching fund

Three of the original five founding partners remain at the fund, which closed its €1bn fund last summer

Anne Sraders

2 min read

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), a €1bn vehicle backed by 24 NATO allies to invest in defence and deeptech startups, is already seeing a shakeup in its upper ranks: founding partner Thorsten Claus and managing partner Andrea Traversone have both left the fund just over a year after it launched. 

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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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