⚛️📊 Palantir veterans raise $300mn to weaponize Europe’s arms supply chain Two former Palantir employees have positioned themselves to profit from Europe's aggressive military build-up, reports the Financial Times. The co-founders of Dutch start-up Onodrim, which recently raised $300mn at its $1.3 billion valuation, include Aistis Simaitis – one of Palantir’s earliest European hires, and Alexander Blessing, who helped build and deploy the firm’s flagship Foundry platform. The new vehicle plans to use its funding to: 🌏 acquire controlling stakes in smaller, often family-owned manufacturers with strategically important technologies 🌏 inject capital, software and management expertise to increase production capacity 🌏 address critical supply-chain bottlenecks, including drone propulsion, radar and sensing systems, explosives materials and aerospace structures While the latest financing round was led by Lux Capital, an earlier initial $45mn seed round included Founders Fund, established by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime