Border Profiteers
The Border Profiteers List is a database compiling companies which are involved with and profiting from the European border system. The fortification and externalisation of borders is not only driven by political interests but also by being a source of profit for an array of different companies from producers of surveillance equipment and weapons to concrete and food distribution for camps, consultant companies and research facilities.
The Border Profiteers List is a non-exhaustive and growing resource for civil society actors, researchers and activists. An online form to submit contributions to this list will be available here shortly.
As the Border Profiteers List relies on open and public sources we make no warranties about the completeness of information provided in this list. We also do not assume any legal liability or responsibility for outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information. However, we will address reports of outdated, incorrect, or incomplete information as quickly as possible.
A large proportion of the entries is based on research by the Informationsstelle Militarisierung (Information Centre for Militarisation).
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| Registered office | Austria - Vienna |
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| Categories | AI |
The Austrian Institute of Technology, headquartered in Vienna, is the successor organisation to the Austrian Study Society for Atomic Energy. On Wikipedia, AIT is described as one of the largest non-university research institutions in Austria, giving the impression that it is a public institution. In its web presence, however, AIT presents itself as a company and in fact it is a limited liability company with several "subsidiaries", only 50.46% are owned by the state. The rest of the shares are held by the "Association for the Promotion of Research and Innovation" of the Federation of Austrian Industries.
Read more| Registered office | Israel - Tel Aviv |
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| Categories | AI |
Aleph is a venture capital fund that claims to manage US$850 million and invests primarily in Israeli start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence.
Read more| Registered office | Türkiye - Ankara |
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| Categories | AI |
Aselsan is one of the most important quasi-state owned Turkish arms companies and produces mainly electronic components for the core Turkish weapons systems. In the war over Nagorno-Karabakh in autumn 2020, which was fought mainly with combat drones, weapon systems from Aselsan were also used by Azerbaijan and are said to have contributed significantly to its victory.
Read more| Registered office | France - Bezons |
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| Categories | AI |
Atos has a €11 billion revenue and more than 111,000 employees in 71 countries.
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Meckenheim |
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| Categories | AI |
Elettronica GmbH was initially founded in Meckenheim near Bonn as a branch of the Italian joint stock company of the same name to handle major orders from the German armed forces. It initially specialized on components for electronic reconnaissance and electronic combat and supplied corresponding components for the Starfighter, the Eurofighter and the NATO NH90 combat helicopter, among others.
Meckenheim is also the location of the federally owned IT service provider of the Bundeswehr (BWI GmbH) as well as the Federal Criminal Police Office. It is virtually in sight of two Fraunhofer Institutes (FHR and FKIE), which are very active …
Read more| Registered office | Netherlands - Leusden, Utrecht |
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| Categories | AI |
Pandora Intelligence is a Dutch start-up that specializes on the evaluation of publicly available data (open source intelligence), but also gives the option to include additional non-public data from the respective "customers".
Read more| Registered office | Germany - Siegburg |
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| Categories | AI |
Schönhofer Sales & Engineering is a medium-sized company that was founded in 1983 by a former lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr and initially specialized on the maintenance of the communication systems of the Bundeswehr.
Read more| Registered office | France - Paris |
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| Categories | AI |
Sopra Steria is a result of the merger of the two French companies Sopra and Steria in 2014. Sopra began as a software company, while Steria was initially active primarily in research and development and increasingly in IT infrastructure. However, from 2000 onwards, both companies acquired other companies on a large scale and expanded their portfolios. Today (as of 2020), Sopra Steria describes itself with "46,000 employees" as a "leading European management and technology consultant" with the goal of "driving digital transformation." The German homepage lists a total of 13 business units, including "Aerospace", "Defence", "Government" and "Homeland Security".
Read more| Registered office | Israel - Tel Aviv |
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| Categories | AI |
Windward was founded in 2011 by two former members of the Israeli Navy. It specializes on AI-based analysis of data on shipping traffic. The startup received US$5 million from Israeli venture capital fund Aleph in a first round of funding in 2013. When the capital fund Horizon Ventures joined in 2015, the value of the still relatively small company was already estimated at US$ 100 million. With its databases and evaluation tools, it contributes to the implementation of trade sanctions against North Korea and the observation and classification of Iranian cargo ships, among other things.
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