Advancing peace through strength via strategic defence investments
Funding defence and innovation through trade finance and asset-backed investments
Investing in strategic critical materials to build resilient security foundations
Born Defense fills a critical gap in defense financing, providing capital to emerging companies locked out of traditional credit systems. We empower innovators to scale, build, and strengthen national security.
We are advancing peace through strength with ethical, scalable, and innovative investments under the Just War Doctrine.
Financing working-capital shortfalls
Funding purchase orders
Monetizing Strategic Critical Materials
Bridging defense innovation and commercial opportunity
Diversified Growth Model
Strategic Partnerships
Guided by the Just War Doctrine, we invest in capabilities that reinforce self-defense and deterrence—not perpetual conflict
Innovative startup investments, defense startup investments and dual track startup investments.
Trade Finance Operations:Revenue-generating funding of purchase orders for small and mid-cap defense suppliers underserved by traditional banking.
At the 2025 NATO Summit in The Hague, Allies committed to investing 5% of GDP annually in defense and security by 2035, including:
3.5% of GDP for core defense capabilities and NATO targets.
Up to 1.5% of GDP for resilience, infrastructure protection, innovation, and industrial base strengthening.
This builds on the 2014 Wales Pledge(minimum 2% of GDP, with 20% on major equipment and R&D) to prevent capability gaps and ensure modernization across the Alliance1.
This builds on the 2014 Wales Pledge(minimum 2% of GDP, with 20% on major equipment and R&D) to prevent capability gaps and ensure modernization across the Alliance1. By contrast, the 2023 Vilnius Summit reaffirmed NATO’s enduring only 2% of GDP defense-spending commitment
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