Bifrost Defence

Transforming the way defence companies in Europe are built.

We buy and build defence companies, focused on hardware. We partner with exceptional founders, engineers, service personnel, primes, and universities to build mission-critical defence ventures from scratch.

We provide operational teams, venture-building expertise, and deep industry networks to transform defence and dual-use technology into scalable, profitable businesses—moving from concept to field-tested technology in months, not years.

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Thor’s Haven

Combat-proven towable infrastructure for crisis areas and the frontline, providing trauma care, command, drone manufacturing, and battlefield infrastructure. Battlefield-proven in Ukraine and scaling across Europe.

Approach

We provide the operational team, venture building expertise and deep industry networks to turn defence and dual-use technology ideas into scalable profitable businesses.

Mission

Our mission is to build the strongest defence companies in Europe. We do this by partnering with exceptional technical founders, the military, primes, and universities - providing the structure, speed, and execution momentum that turns capability into deployed solutions. We don't wait for the right conditions. We create them.

With Whom

We partner with engineers, researchers, students, soldiers, and domain experts - as well as primes, the military, and universities - to turn ideas and deep understanding of capability gaps into scalable companies. We work with people who know the problem firsthand, and we bring what they're missing: the tools and execution to build in months, not years.

Why

Europe has a gap between technical excellence and company creation. Brilliant engineers, researchers, soldiers, and domain experts understand the problems -but turning that insight into focused, scalable companies requires different skills: company building, go-to-market, branding, and venture execution. That's where we come in, providing the structure and speed to make it real.

How

We combine deep experience in company building, go-to-market, branding, and venture execution with the insights of exceptional technical founders. Our role is to turn that combination into companies that actually ship — through structured formation, operational momentum, procurement navigation, and direct access to front-line units for rapid validation.

We don't back pitch decks. We back builders.

If you're a founder, hacker or service personnel working on defence or dual-use technology that solves real problems, we want to hear from you.

We're looking for people who are building, testing, and iterating now, not perfecting slides.

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Press & Events

03/11/2025

How a defence venture studio works: Interview with Bifrost Defence's Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein

Interview format piece from Defender Media on how a defence venture studio operates, featuring Bifrost Defence’s Nicholas MacGowan von Holstein.

03/10/2025

A Ukraine Defence Demo Day Unlike Any Other

Report from a Lviv Combat-Driven Innovation Showcase where frontline-driven projects were pitched to investors; Bifrost Defence is quoted as one of the event sponsors.

01/11/2025

Europe’s Defence Moment

Intro to an article series where Bifrost Defence shares lessons from building mission-critical defence and dual-use companies, and discusses Europe’s shifting defence landscape.

11/11/2025

How Venture Studios Are Driving Europe’s Defence Rebuild

Argues Europe’s key defence challenge is ‘conversion’ - turning concepts into manufacturable capability - and outlines how venture studios can improve that conversion rate.

02/12/2025

Settlers of Defense: Chapter 3 – Defense cannot tolerate mistakes. But without mistakes, we’ll never find what works

Ukraine experience suggests iteration speed beats perfection; European defence procurement is poorly suited to rapid prototyping and learning from failure.

25/11/2025

European Defense Tech Meetup - Berlin

Hosted by the European Defense Tech Hub and V14, this event brought together defence innovators, founders, VCs, and industry experts to foster defence innovation for European sovereignty.

24/11/2025

Berlin Aerospace Hackathon 2025

Bifrost Defence sponsored the first Berlin Aerospace Hackathon, bringing together 100+ hackers from across Europe. Over three days, participants tackled ambitious challenges in aviation and space - from next-gen propulsion and autonomous flight systems to satellite networks and orbital logistics.

27/10/2025

European Defense Tech Hackathon - Kyiv

It's time to accelerate European defence innovation. Bifrost Defence sponsored this hackathon, bringing together 200+ hackers from across Europe and beyond to develop anti-drone solutions. The goal: bridge the gaps between technologists, the public sector, investors, and operators in dual-use and defence technology - demonstrating the talent and drive of the European ecosystem.

25/09/2025

Combat-Driven Innovation Showcase

Snake Island Institute, together with AB3 TECH, Women in Defense Tech, and the 3rd Army Corps, hosted the Combat-Driven Innovation Showcase - a high-impact event where soldiers presented technologies they created and tested on the battlefield.

16/09/2025

Brave1 Defense Tech Valley 2025

Defense Tech Valley 2025 is Europe's flagship dual-use investment summit - a two-day forum where innovation meets the battlefield. Organised by Brave1, Ukraine's national defence tech cluster, the event brings together global investors, military leaders, start-ups, and innovators to showcase the world's most battle-tested defence and dual-use technologies.

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Team

Our team consists of experienced venture builders with deep roots in defence, finance, strategy, and operations. We partner with exceptional technical founders to build Europe's next generation of defence companies.