Dual-Use Companies Investors Keep Misreading

Most investors approach dual-use companies as either commercial businesses or defence contractors. They are neither, and that is the entire point.

What dual-use actually means

A dual-use company sells the same core technology into commercial and defence customers, with adapted product, contracting, and compliance for each. The economics are blended; the diligence has to be too.

What investors get wrong

Pricing the company on the larger of the two markets
Underestimating the time and cost of defence contracting
Overestimating the speed of commercial adoption
Ignoring export control and ITAR posture

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