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Record Venture Capital In Europe Defense And Security, Report Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

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Overall venture capital (VC) invested in European defense, security and resilience reached a record $5.2 billion in 2024, highlighting the importance of the sector amid an overall decline in VC investments in Europe, according to a new report. Defense startups involved in developing technologies around “awareness, understanding, and decision making” garnered $1 billion of the investments, also a record, and are leading the VC-backed growth, the data analytics firm Dealroom.io and the NATO Innovation Fund, a private fund founded by…

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