DefenceTech & Dual-Use Financing
Strategic equity, contract-backed working capital, asset finance and M&A for defence, security, autonomy, sensing and dual-use technology.
Image · DefenceTech & Dual-Use FinancingDefenceTech and dual-use financing supports technology used in security, autonomy, communications, sensing, cyber and critical infrastructure. Any mandate is subject to enhanced legal, export-control, sanctions, end-use, customer and reputational diligence.
Matchpoint applies its corporate-finance capability across equity, venture debt, structured finance, asset-backed capital and M&A to this technology vertical. Sector-specific experience and transaction evidence are stated only where supported by the published track record.
Our role on defencetech & dual-use financing mandates
- Strategic, sovereign and specialist growth equity
- Contract, purchase-order and receivables finance for eligible customers and programmes
- Equipment and asset finance for qualified production and deployment assets
- Joint ventures, industrial partnerships and carefully diligenced M&A
What investors and lenders will test in DefenceTech & Dual-Use Financing
Capital providers will test export controls, sanctions and end-use, customer eligibility, security clearances, procurement and acceptance milestones, intellectual-property restrictions, supply-chain resilience, programme concentration, receivables assignability, governance and reputational risk.
Matchpoint ordinarily undertakes technology financing mandates from USD 5m upwards, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation, capacity and a written engagement.
DefenceTech & Dual-Use Financing — frequently asked questions
Dual-use technology has legitimate commercial applications and potential defence or security applications. Financing requires clear end-use, customer, jurisdiction, export-control and sanctions diligence.
Potentially, where the customer, contract, milestones, acceptance, assignment rights and payment terms are financeable and all legal, export-control and end-use requirements are satisfied.
AI, fintech, blockchain and digital-asset infrastructure, cybersecurity and digital trust, deep tech, semiconductors, robotics, EV and autonomous mobility, climate and energy technology, genomics and biotech, 5G, edge and IoT, additive manufacturing, SpaceTech, defence and dual-use, AgriTech, WaterTech, PropTech and ConTech businesses.
The available routes can include venture and growth equity, venture debt, recurring-revenue facilities, equipment and asset finance, project finance, contract or receivables-backed working capital, strategic investment, joint ventures and M&A.
Potentially, where the mandate is at least USD 5m and the company can evidence defensible technology, credible milestones, relevant approvals, a capable team and a fundable path to commercial adoption. Pre-revenue companies ordinarily rely on equity, strategic, sovereign or grant-linked capital rather than cash-flow debt.
A clear financing requirement and use of proceeds, ownership and authority, product and intellectual-property evidence, commercial pipeline or contracts, regulatory position, financial model, milestone plan, data room and acceptance of a written retainer and success-fee engagement.
Engagements ordinarily combine a retainer with a success fee. Terms are agreed in writing before work begins and calibrated to the mandate’s size, scope and complexity.
Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.
A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.
Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.
Matchpoint undertakes corporate finance, financing, M&A and fund-placement mandates from USD 5m upwards, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation, capacity and a written engagement. The partner team has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions.
Use the enquiry form, email contact@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.
Yes. Confidential information is handled under the engagement terms and any applicable non-disclosure agreement.
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