See western defence before the deck lands.
Gridline gives a curated group of investors early sight of the founders, companies and capability moving across western defence.
The biggest defence rebuild in a generation is underway.
Spending and private capital are climbing together. A wave of new defence companies is forming, and the best access is relationship-led, not public.
Global defence spending, climbing year on year
New NATO spending target of GDP, a structural step change
Growth in defence-tech venture funding since 2021
Access, not noise.
Early sight of founders.
Meet defence founders through warm introductions, before they run a wider process.
Curated deal flow.
Companies surfaced by people who understand defence, not an open marketplace.
A read on the ecosystem.
Who is hiring, raising, winning and expanding across western defence.
Trusted co-investors.
A network of investors who share quality, not volume.
Backed by someone who has built a network before.
Forces background.
Ex Parachute Regiment. The judgement and trust defence people respond to.
Built a network before.
Co-founder of Connectd, built and raised from the ground up.
Twelve years commercial.
Technology, SaaS, recruitment and defence, including Sales Director of a FTSE-listed business.
"The network behind western defence is a relationship business. I've spent a career, in and out of uniform, building exactly this kind of trust."
Back the network behind western defence.
Investor access is invitation only, and the founding cohort is forming now.