{"id":64094,"date":"2026-06-16T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/64094\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T11:46:07","slug":"bae-systems-commits-over-43m-to-back-european-defence-tech-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/64094\/","title":{"rendered":"BAE Systems commits over \u00a343m to back European defence tech startups"},"content":{"rendered":"

BAE Systems has committed \u20ac50m (\u00a343.2m) to VC funds focused on backing European defence tech startups.<\/p>\n

A sum of \u20ac25m (\u00a321.6m) will be invested into two funds headed up by Expeditions and Lakestar, who are both working to help shape the future of European defence innovation<\/a> by backing founders and technologies aiming to deliver next generation capability for allies across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The investments form the second stage of BAE Systems\u2019 recently announced Launchpad programme, which aims to accelerate disruptive innovation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Launchpad aims to address the challenge of moving defence technologies beyond prototype development by funding early-stage ventures or spinning them out into independent startup businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The programme is designed to leverage BAE Systems\u2019 position as a technology innovator to support national priorities, including rapid technology incubation, sovereign capability and economic growth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It also provides startups with access to customers across a broader range of sectors, like energy and advanced manufacturing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding on our long-standing investment in innovation, we recently set up Launchpad as a win-win, aiming to spin out some of our own defence technologies to commercial markets while also backing startups who can bring something new to defence,\u201d says Dave Ewing, head of technology commercialisation at BAE Systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis latest step means we\u2019re full steam ahead on making that a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAE Systems has committed \u20ac50m (\u00a343.2m) to VC funds focused on backing European defence tech startups. A sum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21224],"tags":[21234,8160,4359],"class_list":["post-64094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bae","tag-bae","tag-bae-systems","tag-defence-tech"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116759624581486164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}