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Welcome to SABIR

At SABIR, we turn complex national security challenges into successful ventures, bridging the gap between innovation and commercial effectiveness.


We Solve Advanced Battlefield Integration Requirements.

A Foxglove Defence Company

Our Why

Technology is advancing faster than defense can implement it, causing a gap between innovation and operational use. SABIR aims to shorten the time from discovery to deployment.

Operators face information overload and lack necessary context. SABIR develops tools to integrate data, enabling quicker and more reliable decisions at the forefront.

Key capabilities rely on often-overlooked inputs that can create vulnerabilities. SABIR reinforces these critical components to ensure robust and reliable operational pathways.

About Us

We have assembled a team with three decades of experience at the intersection of warfighting and venture capital, having intimately witnessed the gaps in both capability and early stage Defence companies. Drawing on lessons learned from conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, we understand what is truly needed and what can be effective. Combined with our extensive connections to business leaders and venture funds across Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we offer an incubation service that can overcome the traditional challenges of 'the valley of death'.

Director of Programs

Our Director of Operations brings extensive operational experience and strong business qualifications to effectively define, validate, and accelerate solutions.

Director of Partnerships

Our Director of Partnerships brings extensive strategic acumen and connections to unite the world’s leading academic and defense partners in solving technical challenges.

Head of Funding

Our Head of Funding is a highly experienced finance expert, skilled in raising capital for early-stage ventures and securing government grants.

Head of Operations

Our Head of Operations is the engine of the company - driving the administrative and structural requirements for each entity and supporting the governance and insurance needs for each program.

Our Framework

Program-based Operating Cycle

Problems are progressed as opportunities through deliberate stages as a ‘Program’ , with commitment and scale only increasing as credible commercial pathways are confirmed

Transforming Defence Research into Applications

Spin-out entities are created after each program has carefully validated the problems and market opportunity. Each spin-out is subsequently optimised to achieve rapid scale

Sequenced Capitalisation Model

The sequenced approach to capitalisation is delivered with early risk absorbed by SABIR through operating capital and structural support to institutional scale and early investors.

Clear Transition to Scale

Once credible scale opportunities exist, SABIR steps back from day-to-day involvement and retains a long-term shareholder role, enabling repeatable company creation

Operating Cycle

Stage 1 - Problem Origination & Founder Formation

Problem Origination and Founder Formation

Stage 2 - Feasibility, Validation & Design

Feasibility, Validation & Design

Stage 3 - Spin-Out Formation & Founder Capital Raise

Spin-Out Formation & Founder Capital Raise

Stage 4 - Development, Commercialisation & Delivery

Development, Commercialisation & Delivery

Stage 5 - Scale & Exit

Scale & Exit (SABIR role reduced)

Solving Advanced Battlefield Integration Requirements