Defence Holdings (ALRT) Investor presentation summary

Market context and opportunity

• Global defence spending exceeds $2.5 trillion, with rapid growth in AI, cyber, autonomy, and simulation sectors.

• European governments are prioritising domestic defence innovation to reduce reliance on US technology.

• Western nations face critical capability gaps and digital sovereignty risks, prompting urgent investment in sovereign technologies.

• Public market access to high-growth defence innovation has been limited, with most innovators remaining private.

• The Ministry of Defence and allied initiatives are accelerating localised, agile innovation pipelines.

Strategic approach and platform

• Focus on building and acquiring next-generation defence technologies, especially AI and software-first capabilities.

• Strategy targets critical capability gaps where UK/European dependence on US tech creates strategic risk.

• Combines incubation of new technologies with M&A of high-potential UK and allied defence tech businesses.

• Leverages the UK's trusted position and world-class defence innovation ecosystem.

• Led by a board with deep operational, venture, and capital markets experience.

Product and partnerships

• Long-term strategic partnership with Whitespace, a leading UK AI infrastructure company.

• Whitespace powers the first AI system deployed on a UK warship and is a founding member of the Oracle Defence Ecosystem.

• Building a sovereign AI defence product stack, including deployable infrastructure for critical infrastructure, defence, and drone warfare.

• Solutions provide autonomous decision-making, multi-domain situational awareness, and threat detection.

• Embedded in secure MOD and national security environments.