Defense Companies in Europe

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lingomatch

Germany

lingomatch is a German GovTech startup building a digital interpreting platform that connects public authorities with vetted, qualified language interpreters on short notice via video and audio. Founded in 2025 in Saarbruecken, it targets the public-sector language-mediation market.

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Prophesee

France

Prophesee is a French deeptech company that designs neuromorphic, event-based vision sensors and AI software, building chips that capture only pixel-level changes in a scene rather than full frames for microsecond-latency, low-power perception. Spun out as Chronocam, its patented Metavision technology serves applications from industrial automation and autonomous systems to its newer push into drone detection and defence with the Mantara system. The company is headquartered in Paris with offices in Grenoble, Shanghai, Tokyo and Silicon Valley.

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Lendurai

Estonia

Lendurai is an Estonian dual-use defence-technology startup developing autonomous navigation and AI software for drones and uncrewed aerial vehicles, including operation in GPS-denied environments. Its technology targets defence and security applications across Europe.

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Comand AI

France

Comand AI is a Paris-based defence-technology company building AI-native command-and-control (C2) software for military operations. Its Prevail platform integrates sensor feeds and external data to help officers plan, conduct and analyse operations far faster and with fewer people, offering mission planning, real-time operational overviews and post-operation analytics. The company positions itself as a European, sovereign alternative to US-built C2 systems and has deployed with operational units in France, Germany, Ukraine and other allied nations.

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PDKINEMATICS

Lithuania

PDKinematics is a Vilnius-based defence technology R&D company, founded in 2022, that develops precision guidance systems for unmanned aerial vehicles. Its flagship Gannet product is a low-SWaP-C, platform-agnostic precision-guided munition kit that integrates with standard multi-rotor UAVs and operates without GNSS. The company supplies munition guidance kits plus the associated software and firmware, targeting NATO militaries, with systems already piloted on the front lines in Ukraine.

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Project Q

Germany

Project Q is a Munich-based defence-technology company building an "Internet of Defence" software platform for European armed forces and security agencies. Its core product, the Q-Open Source Platform (Q-OSP), is a modular, open infrastructure layer that fuses data from diverse sensors and existing systems and applies AI to deliver real-time, cross-domain situational awareness. Founded in 2024, the company adapts commercial technologies such as AI, cloud computing and sensor fusion for safety-critical defence use cases.

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Molfar Defence Technologies

Ukraine

Molfar Defence Technologies is a Polish-Ukrainian defence-tech company founded in 2026 that builds tactical radar systems for the early detection, localisation and tracking of small, low-flying drones in contested battlefield conditions. Its proprietary signal-processing and waveform design distinguish micro-UAVs from clutter and are engineered for low probability of detection, available in 90-degree sector and full 360-degree modular configurations that integrate into broader air-defence networks. The company works closely with the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a major Polish defence supplier, and also runs an OSINT-based defence-sector intelligence and due-diligence function.

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Orasio

France

Orasio is a Paris-based defence and public-safety startup building AI-powered video intelligence software that analyses camera feeds in real time to detect events like weapons, fires, or anomalies. The company targets European local authorities, private security operators, and military forces with a sovereign, GDPR- and AI-Act-compliant alternative to US, Israeli, and Chinese surveillance platforms, supporting on-premise, edge, and cloud deployments. It was founded in early 2025 by PayFit cofounder Florian Fournier with CTO Arnaud Delaunay and COO Fabio Gennari.

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Avendar

Netherlands

Avendar is an Eindhoven-based startup building a sovereign European AI platform for public-sector investigations. Its software helps government agencies and law enforcement unify fragmented datasets, detect patterns and accelerate criminal-investigation and integrity-screening workflows. Early customers include the Dutch National Police and the Municipality of Amsterdam, with pilots tied to the Ministry of Justice and Safety.