![]() ![]() ![]() MoD official Nick Elliott as CEO of Helsing U.K., and Sir Chris Deverell (formerly head of the U.K.’s Joint Forces Command) as a senior advisor. Helsing also says it will “focus on serving countries which meet the highest democratic standards.”įounded in 2021 and with offices in London, Munich and Berlin, Helsing plans to serve several countries, starting with teams in the U.K., France and Germany. ![]() This, quite obviously, would involve gathering data from multiple sensors directly on vehicles and systems. Helsing says this will involve turning unstructured sensor data into “information advantage” for democratic governments, providing the clearest picture possible in any operating environment by using “AI on the edge”. This would be crucial in scenarios like cyberattacks, as well as “kinetic” scenarios. Helsing says its real-time software platform “processes data from multiple sensors directly on vehicles and systems, to provide an integrated view of the operational environment with the aim of faster and more accurate decision-making.” So, unlike some systems which seek to make longer-term organizational changes, this appears to be a highly “live scenario” platform. It also means Helsing is claiming a valuation north of €400 million.įollowing a seed round with European investors earlier this year, Helsing plans to use it’s AI platform to boost defence and national security among the aforementioned democracies by making them more efficient, using live data.Įk will join the company’s board, alongside Helsing’s co-founders Torsten Reil, Gundbert Scherf and Niklas Köhler. The new funding will be used to grow the team of over 70 (so far), and accelerate product and delivery. Today it looks like he’s also out to boost European (and other) liberal democratic societies with the news that Prima Materia, his investment company, will put €100 million into Helsing, a European defence AI company, which has raised €102.5 million in total as part of its Series A financing. In particular, he was most interested in boosting European tech and European entrepreneurs as he said they were typically underfunded compared to U.S. Just over a year ago, Spotify co-founder Daniel Ek pledged €1 billion ($1.2 billion) of his personal fortune toward funding deep tech “moonshot projects” spread across the next 10 years. ![]()
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