On Wednesday (11 December 2024), NATO's Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) announced a new cohort of innovative companies that will join its accelerator programme in January 2025.
These companies are developing deep technology solutions to respond to pressing security challenges related to energy & power, sensing & surveillance, data & information security, human health & performance, and critical infrastructure & logistics.
As part of the programme, the companies will each receive €100,000 in funding, training in technology, commercial development and defence, and opportunities to test their solutions in a variety of specialised environments.
"We are proud to welcome the newest cohort of innovators into DIANA," said Professor Deeph Chana, Managing Director of DIANA. "Over the coming months, these creative, highly skilled companies will accelerate the development of their dual-use technologies as they work to solve a suite of complex, interconnected defence, security and resilience challenges."
"The 2025 innovators form a truly impressive cohort combining deep technological expertise and creative problem-solving," said Chief Scientist Tien Pham. "We look forward to supporting the technical development of these innovators, while connecting them to DIANA's network of mentors, test centres and end users as they grow their companies and apply their ideas to Allied needs."
Over 70 companies, headquartered across 20 NATO countries, were selected through a competitive process from more than 2,600 submissions to DIANA's Challenge call earlier in 2024. They specialise in a range of technological fields from quantum sensing to propulsion technology and biomedical equipment.
