DAEN is the first pan-European Business Angels network dedicated to strengthening investment in defence, dual-use, and strategic technologies, created to bridge Europe’s early-stage funding gap in critical fields. It unites investors, founders, and public institutions to accelerate technologies essential to Europe’s sovereignty and resilience.
Mobilise private European capital to finance early-stage innovations in defence, dual-use, and critical technologies. Enable Business Angels to co-invest across borders and support founders.
A connected and sovereign Europe where private investors actively contribute to breakthrough technologies, ensuring European startups can compete globally..
Europe faces a structural funding gap for early-stage defence and dual-use technologies. There is a critical lack of aligned investors who understand the regulatory, industrial, and operational challenges unique to these sectors. DAEN was created to close this gap.
DAEN reinforces Europe’s strategic autonomy by redirecting private savings toward critical technologies, complementing EU instruments.
The first pan-European Business Angels network dedicated to defence, dual-use, and strategic technologies.
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Emmanuel ANKRI
Managing Director
emmanuel.ankri@defenceangels.eu
+33 6 12 19 65 49
