Power outages and small checks: The perils of being a VC in Kyiv
When I called Sasha Yatsenko, the power had just cut out. No sirens, no warning, just a few minutes of darkness and then the usual scramble you hear about in Kyiv when someone has to keep a business going in the dark. For the last few months, he told me,...
Equal1 Wants Quantum to Be as Simple as CPUs and GPUs — and It’s Raised $60m to Prove It
Equal1, an Irish quantum semiconductor company announced this week it had raised $60 million to fuel the next stage of...
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Guest Post: Where are Europe’s female defence tech leaders?
Kraken Technology recently hired Erica Dill-Russell as its new chief commercial officer – a potential “trailblazer“ of a move in the market, given how...
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The Chinese GTG-1002 espionage campaign is an AI security wake-up call
In September, a Chinese state-sponsored group ran a cyber-espionage campaign where off-the-shelf artificial intelligence tooling was believed to have performed...
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The evolution of state sovereignty and national security in the digital age
Over the last two decades, the nature of sovereignty and warfare has been fundamentally transformed by digital technologies and the...
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Five Months After Launch, UK Defence Innovation is Still Missing in Action
On 1 July 2025, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) launched UK Defence Innovation (UKDI), backed by a £400 million ring-fenced...
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Killing is the core function of ‘defense technology’
I am sure most of us have spent considerable time this year moving through industry conferences where the talk always...
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