Jörn "Joe" Menninger
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1,749 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 13 Aug
Jörn "Joe" Menninger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He by the way stays on as an advisor.
And of course, our reliable back office team also remains unchanged.
The signals this month are extraordinary.
In a single month, DAC produced more than 1.7 billion euros of defense-linked capital: 500 million for Stark Stones, 270 million for EZOS rockets, 500 million for
For a new European Defense Growth Fund and the largest European defense IPO in history, KNDS, up to 18 billion euros.
Beyond Defense Focused Energy raised 270 million dollars for laser fusion in the largest Series A the global fusion industry has ever seen.
A new German unicorn from Darmstadt.
are backed by RWE, a German utility, and the German government.
Defense technology is no longer a sector within European venture capital.
It is right now the dominant category.
I'm calling this the Defence Capital Supercycle.
But there is the structural tension.
Isa Aerospace raised 270 million euros on June 9th.
Six days later on June 15th.
Unfortunately, the rocket launch was scrubbed.
The money moved faster than the rocket.
That is kind of the story of this month.
The capital infrastructure for European defense tech is complete.
The question is whether the engineering can match.
Let's look a little bit into the macro numbers.
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