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Following its official launch at the end of 2024, Tanya Suarez Ph.D., CEO and Founder of IoT Tribe spoke to TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher ✍️ about Janus, the new dual-use #DefenceTech #accelerator created in collaboration with Defence and Security Accelerator. Tanya shared exclusive insight into the companies selected for the cohort and how the accelerator programme will provide tailored support to #startups scaling in the rapidly evolving European #defence industry 📈 Tanya also shed light on how this collaboration between the Janus consortium – IOT Tribe, SETsquared Partnership, DASA, Atmos Ventures – and NATO DIANA seeks to advance the development and adoption of life-saving #DualUse #technologies ⭐ Find out more about the successful applicants and the Janus accelerator via the link: https://bit.ly/3X3JqCT Sami Moughrabie, AI Verse, ElFys, Inc., Metahelios ltd, RVmagnetics, Winse Power Ltd. #Startups #Investment #VCs #Founders
With both Vice President J.D. Vance and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth making loud noises Friday about Europe stepping up to the plate in spending more on its own defense, it might come as a surprise that Europe is already on the path toward far greater investment in defense, especially in tech. Not only has investment into “Defense, Resilience, and Security” (DSR) tech reached an all-time high of 10% of all VC funding in Europe, but the U.K. and NATO stepped up this week with the launch of the first NATO-approved cohort of startups under its Defense Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) program, in partnership with the U.K.