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Torsten Reil

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

And you also need to weight certain components in a way that can be arbitrary. And so every conflict, I think, has these kinds of complications, and it's our responsibility to navigate it. Again, we could just lean back and say there's export law that makes it really easy.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

And you also need to weight certain components in a way that can be arbitrary. And so every conflict, I think, has these kinds of complications, and it's our responsibility to navigate it. Again, we could just lean back and say there's export law that makes it really easy.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

But I think if you want to have people really engaged with these kinds of technologies and capabilities in a company, you need to go further than that. You need to build a view that goes beyond just what is quite static export law.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

But I think if you want to have people really engaged with these kinds of technologies and capabilities in a company, you need to go further than that. You need to build a view that goes beyond just what is quite static export law.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

But I think if you want to have people really engaged with these kinds of technologies and capabilities in a company, you need to go further than that. You need to build a view that goes beyond just what is quite static export law.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Well, yeah, I mean, Helsing was founded to support Europe and to be a European company, also to be a European lighthouse company and a company that helps Europe protect itself. So that's always the number one thing. And if kind of people ask, like, what is it you want to, you know, where do you want to be in five years with Helsing or what is it you want to achieve? It's very simple.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Well, yeah, I mean, Helsing was founded to support Europe and to be a European company, also to be a European lighthouse company and a company that helps Europe protect itself. So that's always the number one thing. And if kind of people ask, like, what is it you want to, you know, where do you want to be in five years with Helsing or what is it you want to achieve? It's very simple.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Well, yeah, I mean, Helsing was founded to support Europe and to be a European company, also to be a European lighthouse company and a company that helps Europe protect itself. So that's always the number one thing. And if kind of people ask, like, what is it you want to, you know, where do you want to be in five years with Helsing or what is it you want to achieve? It's very simple.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

We want to make Europe safer. We want to be able to point at the difference that we've made in terms of the geopolitical security of this continent. That is the goal of the company. Everything else has to follow from that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

We want to make Europe safer. We want to be able to point at the difference that we've made in terms of the geopolitical security of this continent. That is the goal of the company. Everything else has to follow from that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

We want to make Europe safer. We want to be able to point at the difference that we've made in terms of the geopolitical security of this continent. That is the goal of the company. Everything else has to follow from that.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Obviously, it needs to be a company that's large enough so that it has leverage, that it can deploy a lot of equipment, that it can work with some of the most complex systems like the Eurofighter that we're working on. But that's all it means to an end. The goal is always to protect Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Obviously, it needs to be a company that's large enough so that it has leverage, that it can deploy a lot of equipment, that it can work with some of the most complex systems like the Eurofighter that we're working on. But that's all it means to an end. The goal is always to protect Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Obviously, it needs to be a company that's large enough so that it has leverage, that it can deploy a lot of equipment, that it can work with some of the most complex systems like the Eurofighter that we're working on. But that's all it means to an end. The goal is always to protect Europe.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Yeah, I mean, Helsing is a software company, as a software-first company, always has been and always will be. Almost everyone is a software engineer. That's where we've come from. That's how we hired. And we are in a number of large contracts. For example, we are working with Saab on the Eurofighter electronic warfare upgrade program. That's pure software, our contribution.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Yeah, I mean, Helsing is a software company, as a software-first company, always has been and always will be. Almost everyone is a software engineer. That's where we've come from. That's how we hired. And we are in a number of large contracts. For example, we are working with Saab on the Eurofighter electronic warfare upgrade program. That's pure software, our contribution.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

Yeah, I mean, Helsing is a software company, as a software-first company, always has been and always will be. Almost everyone is a software engineer. That's where we've come from. That's how we hired. And we are in a number of large contracts. For example, we are working with Saab on the Eurofighter electronic warfare upgrade program. That's pure software, our contribution.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

And software can make a massive difference. In this particular case, AI can. because we can start to read the intent of shape-shifting anti-aircraft radar systems. And so software plays a huge role, and we always said it creates a 10x multiplier in terms of capabilities. That's still the case, that will always be the case, and we will always do those software programs.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

And software can make a massive difference. In this particular case, AI can. because we can start to read the intent of shape-shifting anti-aircraft radar systems. And so software plays a huge role, and we always said it creates a 10x multiplier in terms of capabilities. That's still the case, that will always be the case, and we will always do those software programs.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: The Future of War: Are We Ready & What Needs to Be Done | China, Russia and Trump: What Happens Now | Raising $828M to Build the Defence Champion of Europe | Torsten Reil, Co-Founder @ Helsing

And software can make a massive difference. In this particular case, AI can. because we can start to read the intent of shape-shifting anti-aircraft radar systems. And so software plays a huge role, and we always said it creates a 10x multiplier in terms of capabilities. That's still the case, that will always be the case, and we will always do those software programs.