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Electronic Warfare
10 companies

Electronic Warfare startups in Europe

Sensing, jamming and resilient communications across the electromagnetic spectrum. Ukraine has made it decisive: drones live or die by their links, and European startups are building the antennas, receivers and jammers to match.

Patriot air-defence radar forward deployed in Poland, 2019. Photo: U.S. Army 10th AAMDC photo by Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Smith, Public domain (PD-USGov-Military-Army).

Latest rounds

DateCompanyRoundAmountCountrySector
Sep 2026TERASi Seed€11MSwedenElectronic Warfare
May 2026Rowden Equity£25MUnited KingdomElectronic Warfare
Apr 2026JET Connectivity Pre-Series A£1.2MUnited KingdomElectronic Warfare
Jul 2025Quadsat Series A extension€5MDenmarkElectronic Warfare
Apr 2025Wayren Strategic€7.9MEstoniaElectronic Warfare
Sep 2024Aquark Technologies Seed€5MUnited KingdomElectronic Warfare
Jun 2024MyDefence Majority stake-DenmarkElectronic Warfare

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TERASi

Stockholm, Sweden

KTH spinout building millimetre-wave AirCore radios that form narrow, hard to detect and hard to jam links for tactical communications.

Electronic WarfareSeed / Sep 2026

Rowden

Bristol, United Kingdom

Designs and builds deployable sensing, communications and information systems for degraded edge environments, serving the British Army and UK MoD.

Electronic WarfareEquity / May 2026

JET Connectivity

Farnborough, United Kingdom

Sovereign, AI driven pop up 5G mesh networks on proprietary hardware for contested, denied or remote environments, including buoy mounted maritime nodes.

Electronic WarfarePre-Series A / Apr 2026

Quadsat

Odense, Denmark

Provides RF detection and geolocation of emitters and jammers, UAV-borne EW payloads and spectrum operations software.

Electronic WarfareSeries A extension / Jul 2025

Wayren

Tallinn, Estonia

Singularity platform provides jamming resilient hybrid networking and data sync across satellite, radio and mobile links for soldiers, drones and fires.

Electronic WarfareStrategic / Apr 2025

Aquark Technologies

Southampton, United Kingdom

University of Southampton spinout building compact cold atom quantum sensors for navigation and timing that keep working when GPS is jammed.

Electronic WarfareSeed / Sep 2024

MyDefence

Nørresundby, Denmark

Makes RF drone detectors, wearable sensors and jammers plus spectrum intelligence software for soldiers, vehicles and fixed sites.

Electronic WarfareMajority stake / Jun 2024

Oledcomm

Vélizy-Villacoublay, France

Li-Fi and laser optical wireless communications for military drones, vehicles and satellites, designed to work where radio links are jammed or detectable.

Electronic Warfaren/d

Slipstream Design

Shipley, United Kingdom

Digital RF engineering firm behind ASTRO, a field reprogrammable wideband radio processor combining radar and communications modes for congested spectrum.

Electronic Warfaren/d

Testnor

Tromsø, Norway

Arctic test range and services for GNSS jamming, spoofing and spectrum resilience, recording real interference for lab replay.

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