Last year’s cohort of start-ups has been slimmed down. The ten remaining will get up to €300K in funding and support
NATO's new headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo credits: NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization / Flickr
NATO has selected ten companies that will move to the second phase of its Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) start-up accelerator programme.
The ten winning companies were picked from the first DIANA start-up cohort of 44 companies that joined the scheme in in 2023.
In the next accelerator phase – ‘Grow’ – the ten will receive up to €300,000 each to demonstrate their innovations, develop strategies and work with investors for another six months.
The companies are based in seven NATO countries and each addresses one of the three first challenges set by DIANA: energy and power; data and information security; and sensing and surveillance.
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