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Amid increased momentum for defense, the NATO Innovation Fund refreshes its investment team
The NATO Innovation Fund (NIF) is entering a new chapter, marked by the arrival of two new partners and the departure of its penultimate founding team partner.
Verbrugge, a Dutch PhD in molecular biophysics, was previously a partner at deep tech VC fund Innovation Industries, which he joined after working at semiconductor design and manufacturing company NXP. As for its new partners, they were once again hired through a process previously described by VC Michael Jackson as akin to “building a boy band” — identified by NIF’s board of directors and approved by LPs, rather than having teamed up based on shared history or chemistry. “They will enable us to move even more rapidly and decisively to drive the Alliance’s technological agenda and support the best founders across European ecosystems,” she previously wrote in a joint statement with NIF’s chair, Klaus Hommels.
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