Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky

NATO Innovation Fund (NIF)

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 37 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom20+ investmentsInvested this quarter
37
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9
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Jul 2026
Our electric engines offer quiet, safe and efficient propulsion with the vision to accelerate the adoption of sustainable aviation
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Jun 2026
Isar Aerospace develops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space for small and medium satellites and satellite constellations.
Investor
Jun 2026
STARK is a new kind of defence company, delivering the systems that Europe and NATO need now. Get in touch with us at media@stark-defence.com.
Board Member
Apr 2026
We are developing the worlds first neural digital twin of the environment. A Large Reality Model, a convergence of a Large Language Model and a neural network modelling a high-resolution digital twin of the environment. Our planet is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change to urbanization. A high-resolution Large Reality Model can provide a sandbox for testing potential solutions to these issues in a virtual environment before implementing them in the real world. Creating a Large Reality Model requires vast amounts of accurate and up-to-date data. Gathering and processing this data is a colossal task. Satellites are insufficient in terms of resolution, and traditional drones are not scalable enough. We have developed a platform to collect the real world high-resolution data for the neural network in order to solve this challenge. We have a platform that operates like a satellite constellation under the clouds using an fleet of lighter-than-air autonomous drones. They have multi-day autonomy, zero emissions, and no noise. McKinsey Global Institutes estimate that AI could potentially deliver an additional economic output of about $13 trillion by 2030, which would add about 1.2% to global GDP growth annually. Given the potential to significantly enhance productivity and efficiency across multiple global industries, the market size for a detailed Large Reality Model at 1 cm/pixel resolution could potentially be valued in the hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars. Kelluu is a first mover into this market.
Board Member
Mar 2026
We build AI-powered air defence systems to protect people and critical infrastructure. Our flagship autonomous interceptor detects, tracks, and neutralizes enemy UAVs at high speed with minimal human intervention. Battlefield-tested and developed according to the needs of armed forces, TYTAN delivers cost-efficient, scalable, and interoperable defence solutions. Our mission is to close critical gaps in Europe’s air defence and strengthen democratic resilience through advanced, combat-ready technology.
Board Observer
Jan 2026
SatVu captures the highest resolution thermal data from space for a safer and more sustainable Earth. The images and short video captured by our satellites show heat variations across the surface of the Earth at a resolution of up to 3.5 m, both during the day and at night. Thermal data at this unparalleled resolution has wide applications, from economic monitoring and national security to climate resilience including urban heat monitoring. The company’s first satellite HotSat-1 launched in June 2023. Two more satellites (HotSat-2 and HotSat-3) will be launched in 2025. Weve delivered a step change in EO sensor and processing technology, and our constellation will achieve global coverage with 10-20 revisits per day. Features: Monitor activity at night: Unlike high-resolution optical, SatVu’s data can see at night. It can also see through smoke. High resolution thermal imagery represents a vital night-time optical substitute. A globally scalable solution: Unlike thermal data captured from aeroplanes or drones, SatVu can capture data from any point on the earth’s surface, including inaccessible or restricted areas, and it can do this in a uniform way. Video capability: SatVu is the only company capable of providing thermal data in the form of both still image and video up to 60 seconds long - allowing you to track movement across the built and natural environment. Our values: Challenge constructively: We leverage the diversity of the team, its thinking and the amazing skillsets of our people as we navigate new territory. Be open: We ensure everyone has the most up to date information to build trust and positive relationships that will help us overcome the challenges we face. Focus fast: We always find a way because accepting and responding to dramatic change effectively is key to our success. Astonish the world: We believe we can show the world what we do in ways that inspire change.
Investor
May 2025
High-performance dual-use composite littoral platforms for defence and commercial application in the maritime industry. Open architecture control and autonomous systems development. Rapid prototyping and scalable manufacturing capabilities. Advanced powertrain design and integration.
mid stageShipbuilding
Board Member
May 2025
Enhance. Multiply. Protect. ARX Robotics develops new defense capabilities for European armed forces. At the core is the proprietary ARX Mithra OS, which transforms both new and legacy platforms into networked, AI-enabled, and tactically deployable systems – modular, open-architecture, and mission-ready. With a strong focus on scaling across Europe, building production sites, and forming strategic industrial partnerships, ARX is driving the fast, cost-efficient manufacturing of intelligent systems in the European interest – actively contributing to the security-relevant reindustrialization of Europe. ARX combines technological excellence in AI, software architecture, and system integration with industrial expertise from the European automotive sector. Its systems are already in use by multiple European armed forces and are actively deployed in Ukraine. Explore how ARX is shaping the future of defense: 👉 www.arx-robotics.com/careers | careers@arx-robotics.com
Board Member
Oct 2024
Fractile is building chips, systems and software to radically improve the speed and cost of running frontier AI inference. Existing hardware is good for training frontier AI models, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly defining the new era of AI compute workloads. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale. Weve rearchitected the inference stack from the ground up - silicon to software - to enable generational leaps in capability on the world’s hardest and most important problems.
Investor
Jun 2022
Bringing taste and diversity to the next generation of cheese and dairy. Join our team - find our job board here https://shorturl.at/nopIM
Investor
Dec 2021
Inoviv uses a novel technology platform based on targeted proteomics to support pharmaceutical companies with biomarker test development.
mid stageBiotechnology
Investor
Dec 2021
Ochre Bio is a biotechnology company developing RNA therapies for chronic liver diseases. Using a combination of genomic deep phenotyping, precision RNA medicine, and testing in live human donor livers, Ochre is developing therapies for important liver health challenges, from increasing donor liver supply to reducing cirrhosis complications. To learn more, please visit www.ochre-bio.com.
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Sep 2021
Baseimmune was founded in 2019 as a discovery phase start-up in the antigen discovery and vaccine development field.
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Sep 2021
Cogitat uses AI to read brain waves and convert them into digital commands. The company powers virtual reality which users navigate through, and interact with, using only their thoughts.
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Jul 2021
HelixNano is building the worlds most advanced mRNA platform to enable previously impossible applications across human and non-human biology
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Experience · 43 entries
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Board (7)
2026
Investor
Jul 2026
Our electric engines offer quiet, safe and efficient propulsion with the vision to accelerate the adoption of sustainable aviation
Investor
Jun 2026
Isar Aerospace develops next generation rockets for sustainable access to space for small and medium satellites and satellite constellations.
Investor
Jun 2026
STARK is a new kind of defence company, delivering the systems that Europe and NATO need now. Get in touch with us at media@stark-defence.com.
Board Member
Apr 2026
We are developing the worlds first neural digital twin of the environment. A Large Reality Model, a convergence of a Large Language Model and a neural network modelling a high-resolution digital twin of the environment. Our planet is facing unprecedented challenges, from climate change to urbanization. A high-resolution Large Reality Model can provide a sandbox for testing potential solutions to these issues in a virtual environment before implementing them in the real world. Creating a Large Reality Model requires vast amounts of accurate and up-to-date data. Gathering and processing this data is a colossal task. Satellites are insufficient in terms of resolution, and traditional drones are not scalable enough. We have developed a platform to collect the real world high-resolution data for the neural network in order to solve this challenge. We have a platform that operates like a satellite constellation under the clouds using an fleet of lighter-than-air autonomous drones. They have multi-day autonomy, zero emissions, and no noise. McKinsey Global Institutes estimate that AI could potentially deliver an additional economic output of about $13 trillion by 2030, which would add about 1.2% to global GDP growth annually. Given the potential to significantly enhance productivity and efficiency across multiple global industries, the market size for a detailed Large Reality Model at 1 cm/pixel resolution could potentially be valued in the hundreds of billions to trillions of dollars. Kelluu is a first mover into this market.
Board Member
Mar 2026
We build AI-powered air defence systems to protect people and critical infrastructure. Our flagship autonomous interceptor detects, tracks, and neutralizes enemy UAVs at high speed with minimal human intervention. Battlefield-tested and developed according to the needs of armed forces, TYTAN delivers cost-efficient, scalable, and interoperable defence solutions. Our mission is to close critical gaps in Europe’s air defence and strengthen democratic resilience through advanced, combat-ready technology.
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