Resilience Tech Slush Evening
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Project A, In-Q-Tel (IQT), NATO Innovation Fund, Stark, Resilience Media, Lakestar, and NATO DIANA warmly invite you to an exclusive, invite-only get-together for founders, investors and government officials in the defence tech and resilience ecosystem.
About Project A
Project A is a leading European early-stage investor with €1.2B AUM, championing ambitious tech founders from idea to scale. We provide pre-seed and seed capital to firms shaping Europe's future across key themes including Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio features category leaders such as Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz, and Quantum Systems. In addition, our founder-led Studio actively partners with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics, and Enapi to shape and validate bold ideas from day zero. For more information visit www.project-a.vc.
About IQT
IQT is the not-for-profit strategic investor the U.S. national security community and America’s allies have relied upon for more than 25 years to anticipate their technology questions and needs and achieve solutions. IQT identifies, evaluates, and leverages emerging commercial technologies to deliver best-in-class capabilities, insights, and other services to government partners through a unique global investment platform. For more information visit www.iqt.org.
About the NATO Innovation Fund
The NATO Innovation Fund is a €1 billion venture capital fund, backed by 24 NATO Allies, that invests in deep tech to address challenges in defence, security, and resilience. The fund invests independently, with 24 nations supporting its portfolio’s success and helping provide deep tech entrepreneurs with access to both commercial and government markets. Participating NATO Allies are: Belgium; Bulgaria; Czechia; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Spain; Sweden; Türkiye; United Kingdom. For more information visit www.nif.fund.
About Stark
Stark Defence is a fast-growing European defence technology company developing next-generation AI-powered unmanned systems for NATO and allied forces. Its flagship platform, Virtus, is designed for advanced autonomous operations, featuring vertical take-off and landing (VTOL), resilient navigation in GPS-denied environments, and AI-driven situational awareness. Backed by leading investors including Peter Thiel, Sequoia, and the NATO Innovation Fund, Stark is rapidly scaling production and deployment across Europe. For more information visit stark-defence.com.
About Resilience Media
Resilience Media is the first media publication dedicated to defence tech and the defence of democracy. A mission-driven company founded by former TechCrunch executives, Resilience Media runs the annual Resilience Conference, bringing together the military and national security community with VCs and founders from across NATO. The publication covers startups, investment, policy, and strategy across all areas of defence, national security, and resilience. For more information visit www.resiliencemedia.co
About Lakestar
Lakestar is one of the leading pan-European venture capital firms. Lakestar’s mission is to find, fund and grow disruptive businesses that are enabled by technology and founded by exceptional entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. Founded by Klaus Hommels in 2012, Lakestar raised an aggregated volume of over USD 2.5bn across different products and funds.
The team actively advises and supports portfolio companies in marketing, recruitment, technology, product development and regulatory insight, accompanying founders from seed to early stage, growth stage or exit. Lakestar currently has the privilege of holding investments in Revolut, Auterion, Blockchain, Public, Dexory, Exein, HomeToGo, IsarAerospace, Neko Health, Poolside, sennder and Vertice, to name a few. A long-standing champion for Europe’s digital sovereignty, Lakestar has a presence in London, Berlin and Zurich. For more information visit Lakestar.com
About NATO DIANA
DIANA is the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic – a NATO-led initiative with a mission is to locate and accelerate the development and adoption of dual-use technologies to solve critical defence and security challenges across the NATO Alliance. DIANA is NATO’s innovation engine. By pulling innovative technology from the lab and testing field, and delivering it to the market and to the hands of end-users who need it the most, DIANA is strengthening NATO’s technological edge. For more information visit www.diana.nato.int