NATO Innovation Fund
VC Fund
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
NATO Innovation Fund is a VC fund in Amsterdam focused on Manufacturing and Aerospace. The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) was created to supercharge the Alliance’s unique innovation ecosystems. Allied talent and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are world-leading, but the market to support deep tech innovation is underfunded. With the NIF, the fund is creating a commercialization machine in both the private and public sectors, backing innovators to secure the future for the Alliance's 1 billion citizens.
- Total investments:
- 34
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 68%
Last updated:
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Industries NATO Innovation Fund invests in
Stages NATO Innovation Fund invests in
Countries NATO Innovation Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $5.6M–$15M
- Series A
- $15M–$37M
- Series B
- $74M–$220M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Manufacturing 8 (24%)
- Aerospace 7 (21%)
- Robotics 3 (9%)
- Space Travel 3 (9%)
- Software 2 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 10 (29%)
- Seed 8 (24%)
- Series B 3 (9%)
- Series C 2 (6%)
- Funding Round 2 (6%)
Country
- United Kingdom 9 (26%)
- Germany 4 (12%)
- Spain 1 (3%)
- Norway 1 (3%)
- Sweden 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrea Traversone
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 16 | Find email | |
Chris O'Connor
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
John Ridge
Chief Adoption Officer
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Chief Adoption Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kelly Chen
Founding Partner
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Founding Partner | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
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Kusti Salm
Member of the Board
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Member of the Board | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basecamp Research is a market leader in mapping biodiversity for AI-based design of biological systems. We match and refine novel proteins for our partners' exact industrial, therapeutic or diagnostic applications using BaseGraph™, a new generation of AI design that is powered by the first-ever high-resolution map of global geneticbiodiversity. Understanding the full genetic, evolutionary, and environmental context of each protein allows Basecamp Research to design tailored proteins for specific applications without the need for expensive and time-consuming directed evolution campaigns. We're a team of explorers, scientists and policy experts driven by our ambition to protect and learn from nature's diversity, whilst delivering life-changing breakthroughs to those who need them most. | $140M / Series C / Sep 23, 2026 | ||
| We develop hardware solutions that offer best-in-class performance, size and weight by combining scalable manufacturing and cutting-edge design techniques.Our groundbreaking system-in-package (SiP) technology merges ultra-low loss, pinpoint precision, and featherlight design into one powerhouse solution.This innovation enables us to engineer RFsystems that deliver an unmatched combination of compactness, lightness, and high performance – redefining the future of wireless technology and outperforming conventional SoCs. | $12.6M / Seed / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| Laki Power's grid inspection solution introduces the missing critical component in preventive maintenance for power lines—enabling fast charging of drones directly on high-voltage lines. This innovation paves the way for continuous, autonomous inspections in remote locations, where deploying ground crews is both costly and hazardous.Leveraging our commercial traction, we’re already partnering with leading grid operators to deploy stationary monitoring solutions at critical grid points, tackling issues like icing, wildfires, and grid congestion. | $6.9M / Series A / Sep 17, 2026 | ||
| Greenjets was founded in 2019 and was incubated within Blue Bear Systems Research. It spun-out of Blue Bear in December 2022. | $40.3M / Series A / Jul 17, 2026 | ||
| Kraken Technology Group is a maritime-technology company that designs and builds high-performance platforms for both civilian and defence use. Their services include composite modular manufacturing, powertrain development, and systems integration, often with autonomous capabilities. They also conduct research into advanced materials and structuraltechnologies for marine vessels. Kraken’s engineering team draws on experience from motorsport, defence, and naval operations to deliver scalable and versatile maritime solutions. | $174.5M / Series B / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| STARK is a developer of integrated defense and security systems intended for tactical and strategic protection in military and law enforcement missions. | $570.4M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| RevEng.AI is a cyber security and artificial intelligence company that helps organizations understand their cyber security supply chain. RevEng.ai identifies fundamental components of closed-source program binaries and generates real-valued vector embeddings for each component. | $15M / Series A / May 27, 2026 | ||
| Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. | $220M / Series B / May 13, 2026 | ||
| Kelluu is building a satellite constellation under the clouds using an autonomous fleet of lighter-than-air a platform that produces a high-resolution digital twin of the world while providing real-time aerial intelligence.Kelluu’s data can be accessed via the browser and provided via the cloud to the customers. Data access is sold as asubscription while delivering an order of magnitude decrease to data cost. | $17.7M / Series A / Apr 14, 2026 | ||
| Advanced AI defense systems designed to protect people and critical infrastructure | $35.4M / Series A / Feb 24, 2026 | ||
| See all 34 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does NATO Innovation Fund invest in?
NATO Innovation Fund invests primarily in Manufacturing, Aerospace and Robotics startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 34 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does NATO Innovation Fund invest in?
NATO Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $5.6M–$15M at Seed, $15M–$37M at Series A and $74M–$220M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not NATO Innovation Fund's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds NATO Innovation Fund took part in.
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Who are the partners at NATO Innovation Fund?
The team at NATO Innovation Fund includes Andrea Traversone (Managing Partner), Chris O'Connor (Founding Partner) and John Ridge (Chief Adoption Officer), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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