
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
| Date | Company | Round | Amount | Country | Sector |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | TERASi | Seed | €11M | Sweden | Electronic Warfare |
| May 2026 | Rowden | Equity | £25M | United Kingdom | Electronic Warfare |
| Apr 2026 | JET Connectivity | Pre-Series A | £1.2M | United Kingdom | Electronic Warfare |
| Jul 2025 | Quadsat | Series A extension | €5M | Denmark | Electronic Warfare |
| Apr 2025 | Wayren | Strategic | €7.9M | Estonia | Electronic Warfare |
| Sep 2024 | Aquark Technologies | Seed | €5M | United Kingdom | Electronic Warfare |
| Jun 2024 | MyDefence | Majority stake | - | Denmark | Electronic Warfare |
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Full directoryTERASi
Stockholm, SwedenKTH spinout building millimetre-wave AirCore radios that form narrow, hard to detect and hard to jam links for tactical communications.
Rowden
Bristol, United KingdomDesigns and builds deployable sensing, communications and information systems for degraded edge environments, serving the British Army and UK MoD.
JET Connectivity
Farnborough, United KingdomSovereign, AI driven pop up 5G mesh networks on proprietary hardware for contested, denied or remote environments, including buoy mounted maritime nodes.
Quadsat
Odense, DenmarkProvides RF detection and geolocation of emitters and jammers, UAV-borne EW payloads and spectrum operations software.
Wayren
Tallinn, EstoniaSingularity platform provides jamming resilient hybrid networking and data sync across satellite, radio and mobile links for soldiers, drones and fires.
Aquark Technologies
Southampton, United KingdomUniversity of Southampton spinout building compact cold atom quantum sensors for navigation and timing that keep working when GPS is jammed.
MyDefence
Nørresundby, DenmarkMakes RF drone detectors, wearable sensors and jammers plus spectrum intelligence software for soldiers, vehicles and fixed sites.
Oledcomm
Vélizy-Villacoublay, FranceLi-Fi and laser optical wireless communications for military drones, vehicles and satellites, designed to work where radio links are jammed or detectable.
Slipstream Design
Shipley, United KingdomDigital RF engineering firm behind ASTRO, a field reprogrammable wideband radio processor combining radar and communications modes for congested spectrum.
Testnor
Tromsø, NorwayArctic test range and services for GNSS jamming, spoofing and spectrum resilience, recording real interference for lab replay.