NATO innovation accelerator calls dual-use deeptech startups to join its pilot challenge call!

Only one month left to seize the incredible opportunity of applying for the NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA). Make sure you submit your application before August 25th!

Tehnopol Startup Incubator is proud to be one of 5 DIANA’s pilot accelerator sites for 2023. Calling for all startups from Estonian and other NATO alliance countries! Don’t miss this extraordinary opportunity to make a real impact.

Applications are welcomed from startups across NATO with novel ideas to help solve critical defence and security problems. If you’re working on cutting-edge solutions in these areas, we want to hear from you:

• Sensing and Surveillance
• Energy Resilience
• Secure Information Sharing

DIANA aims to support the best and brightest innovators to develop dual-use technologies for a safe and secure world. We empower selected innovators with access to NATO resources, including grant funding, acceleration services, and pathways to adapt their solutions for defence and security needs.

Companies accepted into the DIANA accelerator programme gain access to:

• grants to support technology development and demonstration, and participation in the DIANA accelerator programme.
• 10+ accelerators across the Alliance, with more planned over the coming years 
• 90+ test centres (with more planned) across the Alliance where entrepreneurs can de-risk, and demonstrate and validate their proposed dual-use technological solutions
• mentoring from scientists, engineers, industry partners, end users, and government procurement experts
• an investor network for trusted third-party funding
• opportunities to demonstrate technology in operational environments
• pathways to market within the NATO enterprise and 31 Allied markets

If you are an innovator with a disruptive deeptech solution, visit the DIANA website to learn more and apply! 

See the recording of Tehnopol’s Launch Event for DIANA in Estonia here.

For more information write to Startup Incubator’s NATO DIANA Community and Communications Manager: karen@tehnopol.ee.