Expeditions
Seed–Series B · 4 people tracked
Investment thesis
Early-stage investor in European security infrastructure, founded by autonomous-weapons academics (including Dr. Mikolaj Firlej), offering an in-house Silent Unseen incubator for dual-use defense tech and regulatory expertise.
Team · 4 people
from the firm's website
Mikołaj Firlej is a GP, AI-law lecturer and former UN autonomous-weapons expert who uses his Oxford D.Phil and UN experience to assess autonomy, AI safety and use-of-force in defense startups.
Stanisław Kastory combines roles as a venture GP, family‑office partner and general counsel—having founded a specialized early‑stage tech legal practice—to invest in dual‑use, defence and deep‑tech companies rebuilding European security.
Ewa Milewska, CFO/Partner, built and sold a Warsaw high school, spent decade at PwC Deals and brings PE-grade discipline to early-stage security investing while leading deals, portfolio ops and infrastructure.
Samuel Burrell, former Royal Marines captain and reservist, applies frontline tech-testing experience and prior UK government quantum investment leadership to lead UK/AUKUS security investing, prioritizing seamless integration for soldiers.
What they invest in
from 10 of 29 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×5Cybersecurity ×3Data & Infrastructure ×3Enterprise Software ×3Hardware ×3Deep Tech ×2Defense Tech ×2Quantum Computing ×2
HQs:United Kingdom×2United States×2Ireland×1Ukraine×1
Investments · 29 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAMI Labs develops advanced AI systems that understand the real world through world models and action-conditioned architectures, enabling intelligent agents with persistent memory, reasoning, and safety controls for industrial automation, robotics, and healthcare applications.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRobotics
Yann LeCun(Founder)
F5 AI Guardrails is an enterprise security platform that deploys runtime guardrails to protect AI models and agents against adversarial attacks, data leakage, and policy violations while enabling compliance and observability.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise Software
Develops technology to combat payment fraud through Know Your Users (KYUTM) profiling solution.
Nu Quantum develops quantum networking solutions to enable commercial quantum computer scaling.
Deep TechHardwareQuantum ComputingCambridge, GB
Dr. Carmen Palacios-Berraquero(Founder and CEO)
Oblivious builds privacy-enhancing software that enables organizations to perform secure data collaboration and deploy services while maintaining data sensitivity.
CybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareDublin, IE
Jack Fitzsimons(Co-founder)Robert Pisarczyk(Co-founder)
Sygaldry develops quantum-accelerated AI servers that combine multiple qubit modalities to speed up training and inference for AI models.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareQuantum ComputingAnn Arbor, US
Chad Rigetti(Founder)inIdalia Friedson(Founder)inMichael Keiser(Director)
BoardChristian Garcia(Director)Andrew Sather(Director)
Synthesized creates governed, production-realistic test data from sensitive enterprise systems for software validation, migrations, and AI-agent testing.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Frequently asked questions
- What stage does Expeditions invest at?
- Expeditions invests at the Seed, Series A, Series B stages.
- What sectors does Expeditions focus on?
- Expeditions focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Fintech, Hardware.
- Does Expeditions lead rounds?
- Yes, Expeditions leads investment rounds.
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