Organisations
2680 entities tracked across Lowdown briefings. Page 27 of 45.
Moa Technology
Oxford Plant Sciences spinout developing herbicides against weed resistance.
Mobarakeh Steel IndustriesIran's largest steel producer in Isfahan; struck twice in a week, killing one worker on Day 30.
Mobian
Advertising technology firm converting publisher pages to markdown and serving ads to AI agents.
MODAFL
Iran's defence-industrial ministry, overseeing military procurement, weapons production, and the IRGC supply chain.
MOD defence unicorn fundPS20m MOD fund targeting defence-native startups with unicorn-scale potential.
Moderna
US mRNA vaccine company; running Phase 3 H5N1 trial and new CEPI-backed Bundibugyo Phase 1 programme.
Modo Energy
Energy market data company that raised £12.7m in July 2026.
MOFCOM
China's Ministry of Commerce; activates Blocking Rules to counter OFAC Iran secondary sanctions.
MOL Group
Hungarian integrated oil & gas major; operates the Százhalombatta refinery and INA Croatia subsidiary.
Molten Ventures
London-listed European venture firm (formerly Draper Esprit); co-led IMU Biosciences' £40m Series A.
Moments Lab
French AI metadata vendor (ex-Newsbridge) powering SMART Stories' NEARLIVE Moments layer.
Monday.com
Israeli work-management software firm that cut 630 jobs while denying AI replaced any of them.
Monee
Firm selected for the FCA stablecoin regulatory sandbox.
Montel News
Oslo-based energy news and data service for European power, gas and carbon markets.
More in Common
UK polling and research organisation whose Holyrood MRP projected the SNP short of a majority in April 2026.
Morgan Murphy Media
A family-owned US local TV and radio group based in Madison, Wisconsin, spanning eight markets.
Morgan Stanley
Major US investment bank whose forecasts shape markets in AI, energy, and global finance.
Morrison Foerster
Major US law firm; among the first to publish client analysis on China's Decree No. 835 and its counter-sanctions compliance implications.
Moscow Exchange
Russia's main stock exchange, whose index has fallen for 17 straight weeks.
Moscow Times
Independent Russian-language newspaper, Amsterdam-based since 2022, banned in Russia as foreign agent.
Mossad
Israel's foreign intelligence and covert-action service; Iran executed an alleged Mossad asset on 22 April.
Motion Picture Association
Hollywood's trade body; sent the first major AI copyright cease-and-desist to ByteDance in 2026.
Mountain Horse Solutions
US defence company and Global Ordnance subsidiary; winner of the Pentagon's first Drone Dominance Lethality Prize Challenge on 29 April 2026.
Movement for an Open Web
The Movement for an Open Web (MOW) is a UK publisher advocacy group that on 15 June 2026 launched Search-Only Contracts allowing 31 publisher sites to charge AI crawlers £500 per article via county-court small-claims enforcement.
MovingTo
Attorney-led Portugal relocation platform offering D8, D7, Golden Visa, and D2 visa services with software-led workflow.
MRF
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms is Bulgaria's ethnic-Turkish minority party, which took 7.120% in the April 2026 election; Radev ruled out coalition with its leader Delyan Peevski.
MuddyWater
Iran-nexus threat group attributed to Iranian intelligence; active since at least 2017 and documented exploiting LLM orchestration infrastructure including the Langflow vulnerability.
MUFG
Japan's largest bank; one of the world's largest by total assets.
Mulago National Referral Hospital
Uganda's national referral hospital in Kampala, which treated the country's Ebola patients.
Multinational Military Mission for the Strait of Hormuz
26-nation defensive naval coalition for Strait of Hormuz freedom of navigation, signed 12 May 2026.
MultiStateBipartisan state-affairs firm cited on Florida redistricting special session timing.
Multiverse
London AI upskilling unicorn founded by Euan Blair; closed $70m Series E at $2.1bn, first cash-positive quarter.
MVM
Hungary's state energy group; holds a 3.5 bcm TurkStream contract exempt from the EU ban until September 2027.
Mykor
Bristol-based materials startup growing structural insulated panels from engineered mycelium and agricultural waste, branded MykoSIP.
NAACPAmerica's oldest civil rights organisation; suing to block Trump's voting restrictions and redistricting rollbacks.
Naftogaz
Ukraine's state oil and gas company, now managing Druzhba pipeline repairs for the EU.
Nakilat
Qatar Gas Transport Company (Nakilat), the Qatari state-linked operator of LNG carriers including Al Rekayyat.
NAM
Shell/ExxonMobil JV; took over Norg and Grijpskerk gas storage from GasTerra at zero carry-in on 1 April 2026.
NanoIC
EU Chips Act pilot-line programme for nano-scale integrated circuits, approved €700m in February 2026.
Napoli
Naples-based Serie A club, 2023 champions, at the heart of Italian football reform debate.
Narodno Sabranie
Bulgaria's unicameral National Assembly (Narodno Sabranie); Progressive Bulgaria's 131-seat majority is the first single-party majority in the chamber since 1997.
NASAUS civil space agency running the crewed Artemis Moon programme despite deep budget cuts.
NASA Black Marble
NASA's calibrated nighttime-lights data product derived from VIIRS; used by Bloomberg to document Cuba's grid collapse.
NASA Office of Inspector General
NASA's independent watchdog; two active Artemis reports covering heat shield failures and programme costs.
Nasdaq
US electronic stock exchange; lists most drone and defence tech companies covered by Lowdown.
Nasdaq Ventures
Nasdaq Inc strategic investment arm; co-invested in Elliptic Series D May 2026.
NASSCOM
National Association of Software and Service Companies, India's IT industry body; published FY2026 figures showing 140,000 net hires and major US multinational GCC expansion.
Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin
Nate Silver's subscription forecaster; its generic ballot aggregate is the industry's most-cited midterm indicator.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
US congressionally chartered scientific advisory body; sponsors NASA space policy studies via its Space Studies Board.
National Advanced Mobility Consortium
US industry consortium used to award Army autonomous-vehicle contracts.
National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine
Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau; investigating Fire Point, the Flamingo missile manufacturer, as of April 2026.
National Art Museum
Kyiv's 40,000-work national art collection; closed indefinitely after Russian missile blast on 24 May 2026.
National Assembly of Hungary
Hungary's 199-seat unicameral parliament; new session convenes 9 May 2026 after Tisza's landslide.
National Assembly of People's Power
Cuba's unicameral national legislature, which passed the June 2026 reform package.
National Bureau of Economic Research
Private US research body that officially dates recessions; published 2026 study on US-Europe GenAI adoption gap.
National Civil Defense Staff
Cuba's civil-defence command authority; on 16 May 2026 ordered households to prepare three-day food backpacks during Meteor 2026.
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
Paris-based Iranian opposition coalition affiliated with the PMOI/MEK; reports on executions and political prosecutions inside Iran.
National Counterterrorism Centre
US intelligence hub integrating all-source counterterrorism analysis; director resigned over Iran war in 2026.
National Crime Agency
UK's lead agency for serious and organised crime; arrested a man after the Royal Marines' Smyrtos boarding.
National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority
UAE emergency authority coordinating civilian response to Iranian strikes