{"id":4109,"date":"2025-12-01T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lead.se\/accelerating-civil-military-innovation-here-are-the-selected-companies-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T16:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:00:53","slug":"accelerating-civil-military-innovation-here-are-the-selected-companies-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lead.se\/en\/accelerating-civil-military-innovation-here-are-the-selected-companies-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Civil-Military Innovation: Here are the selected companies in 2026!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>The second round of the civil-military innovation accelerator program at LEAD will start soon. Ten carefully selected companies will be welcomed to Link\u00f6ping in January.<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">More than 120 companies from all over Sweden applied this year to the Acceleration of Civil-Military Innovations program, a joint initiative of Vinnova and the Swedish Armed Forces. The aim of the program is to promote the development of dual-use technology. Of the applicants, 30 companies have now been granted funding, and ten of them have been awarded a place in LEAD&#8217;s accelerator program starting in January.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211; We at LEAD gathered many valuable contacts and lessons during the first national accelerator program for civil-military innovation 2025, and now look forward to supporting the new companies, says Catharina Sandberg, CEO of LEAD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The accelerator program runs for six months. In addition to continuous business coaching, the companies receive a training program with defense-related content through the Swedish Defence University (FHS). The companies are also offered a company-centric program content where LEAD, in collaboration with Ideon, UIC, Innovatum and Sting, conducts thematic meetings and provides relevant contacts from an extensive network of both civilian and military actors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>The program is primarily aimed at Swedish startups and small and medium-sized enterprises.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><b>Selected companies, LEAD:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><strong>Board Architect Design AB<\/strong> &#8211; Agile and resilient electronics manufacturing<br \/>\n<strong>CYTO365 AB<\/strong> &#8211; RondelO IV Set: Standardized infusion for military 10-1-2 chain of care<br \/>\n<strong>AI Evoma AB<\/strong> &#8211; RES-UPP: Resilient supply chains and production scale-up with simulation<br \/>\n<strong>Gapwaves AB<\/strong> &#8211; Multi Layer Waveguide technology for defense applications<br \/>\n<strong>IRONIC AB<\/strong> &#8211; IronEdge: Evaluation of new dual-use iron protein<br \/>\n<strong>LiNPhA AB<\/strong> &#8211; LiNPhA CMIP Step 2<br \/>\n<strong>Safe Reaction AB<\/strong> &#8211; SoundShield &#8211; ACMI<br \/>\n<strong>SCAILAB AB<\/strong> &#8211; Framework for generating synthetic data for machine learning<br \/>\n<strong>Sitemax AB<\/strong> &#8211; Modular dual-use off-grid network infrastructure (DUON)<br \/>\n<strong>VCraft Aeronautics AB<\/strong> &#8211; Military use of civilian UAS with high performance and payload capacity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second round of the civil-military innovation accelerator program at LEAD will start soon. 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