European Defense Sovereignty Starts in the Factory: Stark’s Uwe Horstmann and Johannes Schaback
European defense startup Stark secured billions in contracts within 18 months of founding.
“the production is deterrence”
Stark co-founders discuss how they rapidly won defense contracts by embedding with battlefield units, self-funding R&D through venture capital, and designing for industrial-scale production. The content is entirely focused on European defense manufacturing and sovereignty with no meaningful AI signal. Not relevant to the AI conference intelligence newsletter.