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LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence

The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most of the money funds the same product. The strategic shift is who else gets to buy it.

European defence-tech rounds, in 2026, are no longer being raised on a pure-defence pitch. On Tuesday, Berlin-based LiveEO announced a €28m first close for its next funding round, with the dedicated defence venture fund Helantic and the European Innovation Council (EIC) joining as new investors alongside b2ventures.

The existing investor list, Nordic Ninja, DeepTech & Climate Fonds, Matterwave Ventures, MMC Ventures, Segenia Capital, and Greencode Ventures, is largely the same syndicate that backed the company’s €25m Series B in June 2024 to manage climate risk and critical infrastructure.

The composition of the cap table tells you what has changed. The product, on LiveEO’s own framing, has not. The...

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Samsung Union Suspends Strike After Reaching Tentative Deal On Bonuses

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