GALLOS Technologies has raised £35 million in a balance sheet investment round led by Ventura Capital and Aberdeen Investments. Founding investor Lansdowne Partners also participated, and the round remains open to a small number of additional strategic investors. Co-founded by senior former national security official Josh Burch and UK special forces veteran Dean Jones, GALLOS Technologies backs and connects start-ups focused on security, defence and resilience innovation.
The strategy runs across three arms. GALLOS Build incubates and launches new companies from scratch, GALLOS Ventures invests in early-stage companies developing solutions for a safer, more prosperous world, and the GALLOS Alliance, a 130-strong membership community of senior security and risk leaders, convenes the expertise that underpins both. Drawing on decades of nation state level security, intelligence and defence experience, the team includes the former Director of GCHQ Sir Jeremy Fleming, the former CTO of GCHQ Gaven Smith and the former CTO of the US National Security Agency (NSA) Greg Smithberger, which translates into a differentiated view regarding the technologies that companies and governments should be deploying to mitigate today's everchanging threat landscape.
The raise comes at a time of heightened geopolitical tension, with allied governments increasing defence spending and companies treating security and resilience as a strategic priority rather than a cost. The raise builds on the early success of the GALLOS start-ups StirlingX and AI Score, and on strong performance in the GALLOS Ventures investment portfolio. The new capital will fund the next cohort of new companies alongside investment in the GALLOS platform as the growth strategy is executed.
The world faces rapidly growing and evolving digital threats, fuelled by geopolitical instability and sharpened by the speed at which new and emerging technologies are being turned against us. GALLOS's work enhances our ability to protect both people and businesses, in the UK and other allied nations.
We have created something unique at GALLOS: a platform that combines frontline national security experience with the ability to build, back and scale companies at pace. This capital raise will unlock the development of the next StirlingX and AI Score, as well as enhance our operating platform and the GALLOS Ventures business.
GALLOS's power is in its people. This team knows where the gaps lie, and are filling out national defence and resilience whitespaces with great purpose. GALLOS is the go-to platform for security, defence and resilience at a time when both the public and private sectors demand pace, quality and innovation. We are proud to have co-led GALLOS's capital raise.
Through our Global Private Markets Fund, we seek to back platforms that can address long-term structural challenges and help define important new investment categories. GALLOS combines operational credibility, deep technical expertise and entrepreneurial ambition with the differentiated insight of the GALLOS Alliance, its network of senior security and risk leaders. That combination gives the platform a distinctive ability to identify resilience gaps, validate market need and build companies with real strategic relevance. We are proud to co-lead this round and look forward to supporting GALLOS as it scales a category-defining company.
