Those who cannot afford to depend
States and ministries, defence and security forces, operators of vital infrastructure, strategic corporations. Institutions for which technological dependency is an existential risk.
[ SOVEREIGN TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY ]
Imagine and build to change the world
A technology development laboratory serving great ambitions
[ THE LABORATORY ]
Our stars.
[ THE FACTS ]
Our societies have never depended so much on technology. Nor ever been so vulnerable.
Protecting our institutions, our liberties, our future and our independence requires mastering the technologies everything rests on.
Imagining them, building them, mastering them, to change the world.
[ TODAY ]
[ CLOUD ]
70%
of the European cloud market is held by non-European providers. Local players account for barely 15%.
Synergy Research, 2025
[ GLOBAL TECH ]
4 / 50
only four of the world's fifty largest technology companies are European.
Draghi report, 2024
[ R&D ]
€270bn
the research and development investment gap between European companies and their American counterparts, in 2021 alone.
Draghi report, 2024
[ AI ]
70%
of the foundational AI models developed between 2017 and 2023 were built in the United States.
Draghi report, 2024
[ THE WINDOW ]
Europe is rearming.A historic window has opened.
War in Ukraine, transatlantic uncertainty, the return of power politics: Europe has launched its largest rearmament effort since the end of the Cold War. The capital is there. What is missing are structures able to design critical technologies end to end, on European soil.
€800bn
mobilised by the European Union for its defence by 2030.
ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030 plan, European Commission, 2025
€413bn
committed by France to its armed forces for 2024-2030. The defence budget will have doubled between 2017 and 2030.
Military Programming Law 2024-2030
€150bn
in European SAFE loans for joint defence projects: missile defence, drones, cyber defence.
Council of the European Union, 2025
Capital is flowing in. Builders are missing.
40 to 50% of the capital invested in European defence tech today comes from American investors. Europe funds its technologies; others own them. Pléiades exists to reverse that equation: a laboratory designing, in France, critical technologies that remain European.
Dealroom · Newfund, 2025
[ THE MODEL ]
A laboratory, not an integrator.
Pléiades designs its technologies in-house, from raw data to deployed system. No assembling of foreign building blocks, no reselling of third-party licences: a complete design capability, held in France.
The critical layers
Sovereign data platforms, critical software, decision-support systems, applied artificial intelligence. Dual technologies by nature: civilian and defence.
Vertical control
Integrated in-house design, with no layer delegated to a non-European actor. The institutions deploying our technologies hold full control: code, data, infrastructure.
[ VISION ]
3 laboratories in France and Europe by 2035
Europe trains the world's best engineers and watches them leave. Pléiades reverses that logic: creating the conditions here — compensation, mission, sovereignty of work — so that the brightest minds stay, build, and contribute to a civilisational project. Three R&D sites in France and across Europe within ten years, to permanently anchor design capability on European soil.
[ CONTACT ]
Meet us at Eurosatory 2026.
We will be at the world's leading defence and security exhibition to present the laboratory to institutional and financial partners.
June 15-19, 2026 · Paris-Nord Villepinte
Schedule a meetingOr write to us directly: contact@pleiades-technologie.fr
