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2025-05-14

NATO backs Welsh startup building space factory for ‘supermaterials’


Welsh startup Space Forge has raised $30mn to advance its first commercial in-orbit manufacturing satellite, ForgeStar-2. The NATO Innovation Fund led the funding round, the largest Series A financing in UK space tech history. Space Forge’s demonstrator — the ForgeStar-1 — is set to launch from the US on a SpaceX rocket this year. The oven-sized satellite will then harness the conditions of space to produce “supermaterials” that are impossible to make on Earth. Joshua Western, Space Forge’s CEO and co-founder, compared the technology to a sourdough [...]

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2025-06-30

NATO’s VC fund backs biotech startup for first time

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) has made its first investment in a biotechnology startup. The alliance’s VC arm announced today that it’s co-leading a $35mn Series A round for UK-based Portal Biote [...]

Match Score: 85.78

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Project Maven reaches Europe: NATO selects Palantir's AI analytics system

NATO adopts AI platform from Palantir for faster military decision-making, The MSS Nato system aims to automate data analysis that previously required large teams.<br /> The article Project Mave [...]

Match Score: 76.67

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2025-03-17

Boeing Starliner astronauts finally head home, nine months later

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Match Score: 64.63

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2025-04-23

Boaty McBoatface submarine takes NATO-backed quantum tech underwater

UK startup Aquark Technologies has used Boaty McBoatface — the internet’s best-loved submarine — to test its quantum sensing technology underwater for the first time. The NATO-backed company put [...]

Match Score: 58.28

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2025-05-06

Exclusive: Latvian startup launches autonomous drone killer for NATO armies

Latvian startup Origin Robotics today launched BLAZE, an autonomous interceptor drone designed to destroy enemy drones by ramming into them or blowing them up. BLAZE is deployable on the battlefield i [...]

Match Score: 49.09