Screen Defence deals for Sovereign vetoes before you spend €150k on diligence.
COMPANY ARCHETYPE
SCORE
This deal raised €12M.
ITAR exposure surfaced 14 months post-close. Capital locked into a non-exportable asset.
Gate 0 catches this in 48 hours.
15 dimensions of Defence investability – Export control, IP sovereignty, Procurement pathway, Dual‑use classification & more.
Assessed by former MoD, NATO‑track, and ex‑military operators. Delivered in 5 business days.
The technology is rarely the problem.
Structural blockers invisible at IC destroy value post-investment.
These are not execution risks. They are eligibility failures.
A counter-drone startup sources one FPGA from a US-controlled supplier. That single component triggers ITAR. The company cannot export to any EU ally without a licence it will never receive. The fund discovers this at deployment — 14 months after the wire.
A cybersecurity company builds its core module on a GPL-licensed library. French MoD classified procurement requires full IP ownership and chain-of-title clearance. The company is permanently disqualified from the programme that justified the investment. No workaround exists.
A dual-use sensor company wins a DGA innovation grant. But it has no pre-qualification for serial procurement, no prime integration pathway, and no visibility beyond the grant. Thirty months later, the fund writes off the position. The technology was never the problem.
Scored criteria, binary verdicts, and a decision trail — not a narrative opinion.
What your IC Will Read
Delivered in 48 hours. Comparable format across your entire deal flow.
Before Capital, Governance, and Roadmap lock in.
Gate 0 kills bad deals early. Hex drives IC conviction. Pathfinder turns programmes into pipeline.
Identification of technical, legal, capital, and governance choices that render an asset non-investable or non-deployable in defence environments.
Deal-Killer Identification Before IC
Comprehensive framework testing scalability under sovereign constraints across Capital, Technology, Governance, Market, Sovereignty, and Execution.
Evidence-Based Dimensional Scoring
Probabilistic mapping of where a technology's value proposition aligns with active procurement programmes across EU and NATO countries.
Macro-Orientation for Defence GTM
How It Works
Send the pitch deck. Specify the tier. We handle the rest. No onboarding required.
8-15 defence-specific criteria: from export control to market fit. Each criterion: Pass, Fail, or Flag. Composite score. Overall verdict.
Structured memo your IC can action. Defensible. Comparable. Decision-grade.
Choose Your Screening Depth.
Transparent Pricing. No “contact us to learn more". Decision-grade output at a known price.
SIGNAL
AI-scored eligibility across 7 sovereign dimensions. Pass / Conditional / Fail verdict.
"Should we look at this deal: Yes or no?"
DEEP DIVE
AI analysis + ex-MoD / NATO / military expert validation. Defence readiness signed report.
"Here's the full structural picture for your IC."
ADVISORY
Everything in IC Pack, plus procurement programme fit and GTM orientation.
A system that determines whether a deal is structurally investable in defence markets. Not opinion. Not narrative. A scored, defensible decision.
Pick a defence deal your fund declined in the last 12 months. We will run Gate 0 on it - free. If we surface nothing your DD missed, we are not worth your time. If we do, you will never screen a defence deal without us again.
The same structural lens investors use. Applied before they do.
If you are building in defence or dual-use, your investability depends on more than your technology.
Export control posture, IP sovereignty, procurement readiness, and dual-use classification determine whether capital can flow and whether you can access the programmes that matter.
Understand which structural dimensions are clear, which are flagged, and what needs resolution before your next raise or procurement engagement.