Background
NATO and its non-member allies find themselves at an inflection point as state and non-state actors pose existential risks to global stability and security.
This has led to a growing awareness of the importance of strengthening defense capabilities as well as to a significant increase in defense expenditure. Emerging technologies play an increasingly decisive role in modern warfare and civil resilience. Leveraging new technologies and cheap consumer electronics our adversaries are creating highly distributed, networked, and cost-efficient asymmetric as well as hybrid threats.
Emerging Technologies
Resilience Infrastructure
Current defense systems suffer from a slow rate of innovation, insufficient production volume, and excessive pricing. These are fundamentally at odds with modern defense needs. Governments are therefore increasingly embracing venture capital to overcome these deficiencies. Harnessing the innovative power of mission-driven founders has become essential to maintaining technological superiority in critical areas of national security.
This makes early-stage defense and civil resilience an attractive investment opportunity that is defined by favorable risk characteristics and a highly asymmetric return profile.
The history of failure in war can almost always
be summed up in two words:
“Too late”
General Douglas MacArthur
