When Daniel Ek is not busy for a walk or build a new drive ai Health Health CompanyHe made a great bet in the European war, apparently.
Milyunes, who usually lived in Stockholm, just led € 600 million investment in the helding, technological company of technology that was four years old, now cost € 12 Billionaccording to the financial period. The agreement makes one of the most expensive companies in Europe; Also important Europe scrambles to build your own military muscle because the world grows a Messier and the US goes in.
The number helps the story. Helding was appointed $ 450 million Just ashamed a year ago; Now, Return to the Investment EK Prima Materia. As part of a wider tech defense boom to see the flooding money like a company like a US bush, which is only raised $ 2.5 billion led by fund fundters, and European drone systems and came. (In the past-week, they announce € 160 million and € 70 Millionrespectively, in the round that put the two into the unicorn area called.)
TechCrunch has been completed to get more information on the way you plan to use a new funding.
For what, exactly, helsing, cable says years ago to think about conducting modern warfare into something that looks more like video gameexcept for the actual consequence. The main product of the company takes the amount of data from the military sensor, Radar, and the weapon system, and then use AI to make intuitive visualization, real-time what happens in battlefield. But the soldiers make life-based decisions and the phone and maps drawn hands, everyone sees the same information, that from the front trench or the Command center.
But it started as a AI software company has many ambitions. Helsing now built a dron and the strike plane and said to work with an unknown mini-shipping fleet in order to save the navy.
Time is not soolated. As American Investor Eric Slestor tells the techcrunch This spring, “European government is awaiting for a long time to remind what is intended to be with her security.” The wake-up call comes with Russian attacks in Ukraine, which is clear that Europe does not rely on American protection. US Election last year ago President Donald Trump’s President – which would you prefer American interest – Since making a better point on something.
The current European leader said about spending large when the defense when it earned the strategic autonomous, that means the ability to address its own security. Greek Minister Greek Mitsotakis Mitsotakis Separate interviews with TechCrunch: “We will spend a lot of money to defense as Europe. The defense landscape has changed, which is not about planes, this tank-this will be more digital and ai.”
A couple of years ago, the realization is impetus for NATO Innovation FundThe Belahar fund is too multi-sovereign Qevereign Queereign in the world supported 24 Allies. But the pool is only one of the marks that Europe is seriously complete the TechShesce tech ecosystem rather than trust us for protection.
Ek, the first invested in the helsing back in 2021Before the outbreak of the Ukraine War, it might see some time in which it is intended. As he said in the press broadcast on Monday funding: “As a geopolitical funding, there is a geopolitis change that ensures autonomy advance that ensures the strategic autonomy.”
Other investors in the new round that hellsing include backers are walking, rapidly, General catalysts and Saab, and a new MSD partner. The company is now adding all the billion Ewruari.
