# NATO Innovation Fund

> NATO Innovation Fund is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Aerospace. See 31 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 31
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 68%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nato-innovation-fund-nif
- Website: https://www.nif.fund

NATO Innovation Fund is a VC fund 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 theprivate and public sectors, backing innovators to secure the future for the Alliance's 1 billion citizens.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $5.6M–$15M |
| Series A | $18M–$37M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 5 | 16% |
| Aerospace | 4 | 13% |
| Robotics | 3 | 10% |
| Space Travel | 3 | 10% |
| Software | 2 | 6% |

23 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 6 | 19% |
| Seed | 5 | 16% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 13% |
| Series B | 2 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 16% |
| Germany | 4 | 13% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| Portugal | 1 | 3% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Andrea Traversone | Managing Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrea-traversone |
| Chris O'Connor | Founding Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-o-connor-6a0b |
| John Ridge | Chief Adoption Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-ridge-43fc |
| Kelly Chen | Founding Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kelly-chen |
| Kusti Salm | Member of the Board | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kusti-salm |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Greenjets | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Tytan Technologies | Advanced AI defense systems designed to protect people and critical infrastructure | $35.4M | Series A | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| SatVu | Satellite Vu will monitor the temperature of every building on the planet in near real time to determine valuable insights into economic activity, energy efficiency and carbon footprint. ​We are passionate about supporting decision making around the world related to: the Energy industry, investors monitoring economic activity, sustainable finance.Natural Disaster responders, building operators & Plastics Cleanup. | $40.9M |  | Feb 16, 2026 |  |
| Uplift360 | Uplift360 is a greentech startup working in advanced material circular economy (redesign, reuse, regenerate and recycle), uniquely focused on the defence and security sector. | $8.7M | Seed | Feb 06, 2026 |  |
| Fractile | 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. | $22.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 15, 2026 |  |

10 of 31 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Project A Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/project-a-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [British Business Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/british-business-bank) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Kindred Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindredcapital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [National Security Strategic Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/national-security-strategic-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Oxford Science Enterprises](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oxford-sciences-innovation) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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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 31 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is NATO Innovation Fund's check size?

NATO Innovation Fund typically joins rounds of $5.6M–$15M at Seed and $18M–$37M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds NATO Innovation Fund participates in.

### How do I contact NATO Innovation Fund?

Public channels for NATO Innovation Fund include LinkedIn and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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