deepi delivers inspiration, intelligence and innovation for a just world.
Our focus: AI-enabled defense of democracies
Our defense of democracies centers on Europe — where the stakes are sharpest, where capital is most mobilizable, and where the gap between what is needed and what exists is widest.
DeepI serves as a connective tissue — the link between the entrepreneurs building frontier capabilities, the investors who can fund them at scale, and the governments that must field them.
We connect defense startups with government buyers and institutional investors, shape the equity narratives and partnerships that allow them to scale, and advocate for the asymmetric, software-defined capabilities that actually keep open societies safe.
Our north star
Integrity inspires intelligence: A clear set of principles decide the work we take on — who we partner with and which challenges we commit to.
Justice. Our founder grew up in modest circumstances but was given something not everyone gets: a fair start and a genuine chance. It left him with a conviction that runs through all our work — that justice, when it is firm without being cold, builds and unites rather than divides.
Peace. Clear judgment comes from a steady center. We believe peace and freedom are the preconditions of any good life — and both must sometimes be defended. That conviction is the reason we do the work we do.
Courage. Competence in service of work that matters to society. We only take on problems important enough to deserve our full attention.
Wisdom. Knowledge is everywhere; knowing the right action, for the right people, at the right moment, is rare. Decades of pattern recognition across technology, capital, and geopolitics taught our founder how those worlds connect — and to trust considered judgment over noise.
Held in balance, these principles enable one thing: harnessing AI for good at a critical moment for humanity.
How we work
We work as an independent firm by design — across thought leadership, advisory engagements, and selective co-investment — so that judgment and integrity are never subordinated to any single institution's agenda.
Every relationship serves that end: multiplying the impact of capital toward a future worth defending.
Founder: Andreas Urbanski
Our purpose is to ensure that the age of AI strengthens free societies rather than hollowing them out.
Why now?
We need to act now.
Artificial intelligence is arriving at one of the most fragile moments in modern history.
Like every general-purpose technology before it, it serves noble and destructive ends with equal facility — but it is coming into its power at a time when the structures that once supplied stability are giving way.
Alliances are being renegotiated.
Supply chains — from critical minerals to semiconductors to talent — are being re-nationalized in the name of resilience. And the security umbrella that free societies long took for granted can no longer be assumed.
For Europe, this is the defining strategic imperative at this historical juncture.
The same transformative tools that can strengthen open societies can just as easily entrench closed ones. The question is no longer whether artificial intelligence will reshape the balance of power, but who will shape it — and toward what ends.
The decisions made now — about which capabilities get built, which companies get backed, and which partnerships get formed — will determine whether AI reinforces free societies or erodes them.
Our firm exists to help steer that outcome.