Helsing

“Last year we flew a real fighter jet and we flew the Saab Gripen over the Baltic Sea. And when I say we, our AI did and took full control of the plane in air combat against and another Gripen, which was human controlled. And so we flew three air combat scenari…”

“If you look at something like the like the CA-I our autonomous fighter jets, it's designed in such a way that it can take off from any kind of makeshift airstrip, which would be a road, an autobahn, a motorway, a highway, et cetera.”

“Very difficult to raise money in 21 for defense, like no VC wanted to talk to us, and we didn't even try in the end, so we just raised money from individuals, family offices, and then we were lucky that Daniel you know, put in a hundred million euros of his ow…”

“So, so we decided to acquire an aircraft manufacturer outside Munich, our outside Munich with its own runway hangars and full aircraft manufacturing capabilities and build our own fighter jet, which is now called the CA-I and then put Centaur on it. As the cor…”

“We never set it up, honestly, to have the systems deployed at scale in Ukraine, which is what we have right now.”

“We came in with an AI-based approach, deep learning-based approach that kind of recover that ability to interpret those radars, and it was a big technology jump, and we managed to win that program of record together with our partner Saab against, you know, a l…”

“It would be much harder for us to build Helsing if the founder backgrounds had already been in defense companies. Just much harder. It's easier to be an outsider.”

“We had to go from dozens of HX-II per month to a baseline of 1000, and it can now search to In the small factory that we have to 3000 a month”

“We just closed a one billion framework contract in, in Germany”

“We try really to keep the foot on the gas really aggressively, because we want to build a company that really matters, and we will never sell the company.”

“And so I think the area of tanks is probably over.”

“And this happened after two years and four months of founding the company. I think we became the fastest to go from founding to program off record.”

“And strike drones often travel over longer distances and like the HX-II, which is our drone quite often they're AI controlled.”