Our Portfolio

Meet the companies changing how innovation is done in aerospace and defence.

Our Investment Portfolio
49
Startups
12
Countries
3
Continents
SeRo Systems
Founder Markus Fuchs, Matthias Schäfer
Category Aviation
Location Kaiserslautern, Germany
Product

SeRo Systems has developed an integrity monitoring system for improving both safety and security of ADS-B, aiming at providing military-grade security to civil air traffic surveillance. This is becoming particularly important as ADS-B usage is becoming mandatory throughout the world. The GRX1090 sensor developed by SeRo Systems combines the flexibility and capabilities of software-defined radios with a high-end Mode S/ADS-B sensor. It has a 600km coverage range, Hertz-precision frequency and nanosecond-precision time of arrival measurements.

Airfree
Founder Etienne de Verdelhan, Valéry Méary, Agnès Debains
Category Aviation
Location Paris, France
Product

Marketplace connecting travellers to duty-free retailers and travel-related service providers. Customers can browse and securely purchase products on their personal device using inflight

Wi-Fi, even with minimal satellite bandwidth.  Airfree removes the need for having products onboard and can be easily integrated with the systems of retailers, thus allowing for selling a wider range of products than classic inflight retail.

Paladin AI
Founder Adolfo Klassen, Mikhail Klassen
Category Data-driven adaptive pilot training using AI
Location Montreal, Canada
Product

Paladin AI uses artificial intelligence to develop competency-based training systems for aviation. Their cloud-hosted analytics platform, InstructIQTM, allows training providers to access
insights into their trainee’s development and increase the effectiveness of their curricula. Paladin AI integrates with existing training devices (flight simulators) to combine millions of data points and use machine learning algorithms to extract competency metrics, predict future trainee aptitudes, and optimize training delivery.

FLITE Material Sciences
Founder Dan Cohen
Category Enabling technologies
Location Montreal, Canada
Product

FLITE’s technology offers a chemical free, waste free, and long-lasting solution for water and oil proofing surfaces. FLITE coatings improve performance and reduce manufacturing and maintenance costs. FLITE commercializes a patented surface treatment process – a portfolio of 10+ patents for treating glass, plastic, and metal surfaces with high power short burst lasers to render them superhydrophobic, hydrophilic, oleophobic or oleophilic, as well as to change the color. FLITE’s technology is valuable across a multitude of industries including aerospace, oil & gas, water, marine, food & beverage, semiconductors, and medical device manufacturers

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