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In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
Europe is waking up to the need to invest in defense, and so are European VCs. But with a painful history of Soviet occupations, Lithuania didn’t wait for
Coinvest’s sole limited partner, Lithuania’s national development bank, also provided “major capital injections to other local VCs like BSV Ventures or ScaleWolf, including [the] Lithuanian contribution to the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF),” she celebrated on LinkedIn. However, as she wrote in a recent LinkedIn post, “no other investment returns will matter if Ukraine will not receive sufficient support from allies and Europe will be invaded further.” As her name and personality suggest, she won’t relent in her efforts to prevent this outcome. A former LATAM & Media Editor at The Next Web, startup founder and Sciences Po Paris alum, she’s fluent in multiple languages, including French, English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.
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