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June 18, 2024

The €1bn Nato Innovation Fund announces its first startup and VC fund investments

The fund has made eight investments so far across both startups and VC funds

Anne Sraders

4 min read

Defence startups have gotten a big boost from investors recently as VCs are increasingly getting onboard with the once-controversial space. One of those new backers, the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) — a €1bn fund backed by 24 nations dedicated to investing in deeptech and defence technology — is today announcing some of the initial startup and VC recipients of its funding, from robotics to materials manufacturing.  

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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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