Five Swedish startups selected for NATO’s 2025 accelerator programme for defence innovation

This news was covered on December 11 in the daily PRO newsletter.

For the first time, startups and scaleups from Sweden were eligible to apply to NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).

Now five Swedish companies have been selected for the 2025 cohort:

• APR Technologies, developer of next generation in thermal management solutions
• BLIXT, maker of miniature, solid state circuit breakers and next gen modular multilevel converters
• KASI Technologies, developer of technology to convert an ordinary used car with a traditional internal combustion engine into a hybrid
• Scaleout, federated learning platform for leveraging siloed, business sensitive and regulated data in ML pipelines
• Dolprop, developing the world’s "most sustainable marine propulsion technology"

As part of the programme, the startups will each receive €100,000 in funding, training in technology, commercial development and defence, and opportunities to test their solutions in a variety of specialised environments.