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Project Q raises 15 million euros a year after its seed round. The startup is developing an open software platform for security and defence applications.

Two months after initial insider reports, the mega-deal is official: Helsing receives €1.6 billion in fresh capital and achieves a valuation of €16 billion.

With billion-euro funding, Quantum Systems is advancing the expansion of its autonomous systems. The company valuation is growing to approximately seven billion euros.

Whether it’s the Bundeswehr, police or emergency services: in security-critical operations, enormous amounts of data must be analyzed in seconds. The Munich-based company Hat.tec develops Scale, a software that consolidates information from different sensors and platforms into a shared situational picture. Co-CEOs Yannick Brand and Fabian Schmitt explain in an interview how humans and machines will work together even better in the future and why their software now also supports Bavaria’s police new helicopter fleet.

Mercedes-Benz and Munich-based defence tech scaleup Tytan Technologies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the ILA 2026 aerospace exhibition in Berlin to develop mobile security and counter-drone solutions.

250 kilos of payload, 300 kilometers of range, and no need for a conventional runway: ERC System relies on Victor for logistics when things get complicated.

Hensoldt and Munich startup SE3 Labs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at ILA Berlin. The agreement provides for the integration of spatial and agentic AI technologies from SE3 Labs into Hensoldt’s MDOcore platform and is intended to expand automated evaluation of sensor data for modern multi-domain operations.

Helsing is introducing Area 9, a new research unit for AI and autonomous systems, and presenting RX-1, a robotics research platform developed in Europe. Alongside expanding its research activities, Helsing is also strengthening its management team. Since June, Frank Dirksen has taken on the newly created position of Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

European defence and dual-use startups have five more days to apply for the Eudis Business Accelerator of the European Union. Selected companies will receive funding up to 120,000 euros as well as direct access to investors, industry partners, and military end-users.

According to insider reports, Helsing could raise around 1.2 billion dollars in fresh capital and be valued at around 18 billion dollars in the process. This would make the Munich defencetech company not only one of Europe’s most valuable AI startups, but probably also the highest-valued German startup ever. We spoke with Arno Eggers, head of Munich Startup, about the possible mega-deal.

Hat.tec is now cooperating with defence tech company Project Q. Both companies want to connect their software platforms to bring together data from different military systems more quickly and better coordinate operations.

Mega-constellations are considered the next major step in space exploration – but for Daniel Holle from Helsing, competition is decided not in space but in software, as he made clear at the Munich Space Summit. The Munich defense AI specialist argues that only AI and fast software cycles make operating thousands of satellites manageable at all.