US investors back Acutronic with 25 million dollars
Bubikon/Omaha/New York - Acutronic Holding AG has received a total investment of 25 million US dollars from InterAlpen Partners and Hale Capital Partners based in the United States. The established Swiss supplier to the global defense industry plans to use the funds to boost production and growth.
(CONNECT) The venture capital firm InterAlpen Partners, based in Omaha in Nebraska, has invested in the Acutronic Group. Hale Capital Partners of New York also participated in the investment. Together, the two firms raised a total of 25 million US dollars to support the company from Bubikon in the Swiss canton of Zurich, which supplies propulsion, simulation, and motion control systems – primarily for drones – to the world’s largest defense contractors. Founded in 1983, the Acutronic Group employs approximately 350 people at its headquarters in Bubikon and Austin, as well as at additional locations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and in Germany, France, and India.
As CEO Florian Aigrain explaines in a statement, the investment “infuses our company with the capital and strategic backing to do what the moment demands: build the world’s best micro-turbines, expand our European commercial footprint, and invest in next-generation technology to meet our customers’ needs.”
The statement continues that Acutronic is entering this partnership from a position of strength. In 2025, it achieved record figures for revenue, bookings, and profitability for the fourth consecutive year, and also managed to expand its EBITDA margin each year during this period. The investment, it writes, comes at a critical moment for global security, as “attritable” systems and one-way attack drones are now being deployed in large numbers. The company’s facility in Austin, Texas is reportedly one of the only in the US capable of mass-producing small jet engines at the scale required for “affordable mass strategies”.
“The structural shift in how nations fight and deter adversaries is not a passing trend – it is a generational transformation,” Stephen George, Founding Partner of InterAlpen Partners, is quoted as saying. “Acutronic sits at the absolute center of it: supplying the propulsion, simulation infrastructure, and autonomous systems hardware that turns defense policy into operational reality.” ce/mm
