NATO Innovation Fund

The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) was created to supercharge the Alliance’s unique innovation ecosystems. Allied talent and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are world-leading, but the market to support deep tech innovation is underfunded. With the NIF, they are creating a commercialisation machine in both the private and public sectors, backing innovators to secure the future for the Alliance's 1 billion citizens.

The NIF is a standalone EUR 1 billion venture capital fund supporting ambitious founders developing emerging and disruptive technologies. For them, high-impact verticals include artificial intelligence (AI), biotechnology, energy & propulsion, manufacturing, and space. They are passionate about autonomy, hypersonics, new materials and quantum, and want to shore up cutting-edge hardware and software.

The NIF will provide Allied innovators in the Participating Allied countries with massive market opportunity, patient capital and technological diligence & validation - tremendous advantages for any deep tech innovator.

Rallying around NATO’s Emerging and Disruptive Technologies (EDTs), their focus will evolve in parallel with today’s rapid innovation environment.