Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky

Patrick Schneider-Sikorsky is a London-based venture capitalist currently serving as a Member of the Senior Management Team at the NATO Innovation Fund and Director at NIF Investment Advisor UK Ltd. Before joining the fund in 2023, he spent eight years as the Founder and Partner at Beast Ventures, where he deployed $100,000 to $5 million checks into seed and Series A deep tech startups. His investment portfolio includes dual-use technology developers like TEKEVER, and he previously co-founded the MIT Alumni Angels U.K. network. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Oxford and a Master of Science in Management Science from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Schneider-Sikorsky currently focuses on building defense and security technology ecosystems across Central and Eastern Europe to bridge the gap between startups, governments, and institutional investors.