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Betting on Helsing in 2020 & Building Plural - Khaled, GP of Plural
October 8, 2026 · 40 minHelsing, The Exploration Company, Hypersonica, Frankenburg, Augur, Proxima Fusion: Khaled Helioui and his partners at Plural are behind a good share of the European companies people now call obvious. He committed to Helsing in 2020, before…
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Reindustrializing the West - with Alexander Fitzgerald (Isembard)
September 23, 2026 · 31 minAnduril, Babcock, Tekever and ARX all have something in common: they buy their parts from Isembard. The company just opened the largest factory London has seen since the Second World War. I sat down with Alexander Fitzgerald to discuss why…
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The Solo GP Behind the US Defense Boom — with Jackson Moses (Silent Ventures)
September 9, 2026 · 51 minCastelion, Saronic, Impulse Space, Hadrian, Firestorm Labs — Jackson Moses backed all of them, solo, out of Dallas, starting when defense wasn't investable. Fund two closed this year at $85M. In this episode: what he screens founders on…
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Going all in on European defense — Alex Ferrara, Partner at Bessemer
July 28, 2026 · 41 minFor twenty years, Alex Ferrara bet on the winners of the internet economy. At Bessemer, he led Shopify's Series A and backed companies like Pipedrive. Then, a little over a year ago, he published a piece announcing he was going all in on…
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Robotization of the Battlefield with Roman Tkachenko - Founder of Tencore
July 15, 2026 · 28 min"We were dreamers from the very beginning — everyone told us it was a toy." Tencore is the leading UGV company in Ukraine. Their ground robots carry water, ammunition, and wounded soldiers across the most dangerous kilometers of the front…
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The Electronic Warfare Arms Race behind Ukraine's drones — with Andriy Chulyk (Sine Engineering)
June 30, 2026 · 20 min“Ukraine will be a Silicon Valley for drones.” Sine Engineering is powering the comms backbone of Ukraine’s drone war — keeping hundreds of thousands of drones flying when GPS is jammed and the enemy is hunting every signal. Andriy Chulyk…
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The $150 million fund fueling Israel's defense-tech surge - with Aaron Applbaum, GP at Kinetica
June 16, 2026 · 36 min"When global defense spend goes from two to three trillion, you don't get bigger militaries — you get a refresh of every platform." Aaron Applbaum, co-founder of Kinetica, sat with me to talk about building a new Israeli defense fund at…
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Europe's Hypersonic Moment — with Philipp Kerth, Co-founder of Hypersonica
June 2, 2026 · 27 min"Europe might be behind on a couple of core technologies, but let's make hypersonics ours." Philipp Kerth, co-founder and CEO of Hypersonica, sat with me to talk about what it takes to launch a hypersonic missile company at the end of a…
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Inside the Pentagon's Innovation Engine - with Doug Beck, ex-Director Defense Innovation Unit
May 21, 2026 · 38 min"We're more than 10 times further than where I hoped we'd be. And we're probably one-tenth of the way to where we need to go." I sat down with Doug Beck, former director of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). He steered billions…
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Leading the French Air & Space Force with General Moralès (in English)
April 9, 2026 · 43 min38 years of evolution in air combat — and what the future holds Translated by Eleven Labs
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Général Moralès : aux commandes de l'Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace
April 9, 2026 · 45 min38 ans d'évolution du combat aérien — et ce que l'avenir nous réserve.
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Becoming the First French Defense Unicorn - with Martin de Gourcuff, CTO of Harmattan AI
March 17, 2026 · 25 min"Age is a poor predictor of the quality of engineers. I'm looking more into curiosity, ownership, passion, motivation." Martin and I have known each other from the early days of Harmattan, France's first defense unicorn. Harmattan went…