{"id":382065,"date":"2026-05-14T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/anduril-doubles-valuation-to-over-60-billion-as-defense-tech-funding-boom-continues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T22:01:46","slug":"anduril-doubles-valuation-to-over-60-billion-as-defense-tech-funding-boom-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prostartup.it\/ru\/anduril-doubles-valuation-to-over-60-billion-as-defense-tech-funding-boom-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Anduril doubles valuation to over $60 billion as defense tech funding boom continues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Anduril Industries headquarters in Costa Mesa, California, US, on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Defense tech startup Anduril on Wednesday said it raised $5 billion, doubling its valuation to $61 billion in a funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. <\/p>\n

CEO Brian Schimpf said in a release that the company will “aggressively” invest in manufacturing, research and infrastructure to scale defense systems for the U.S. as it faces rising geopolitical risks. <\/p>\n

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The latest funding round doubles Anduril’s valuation from $30.5 billion ahead of a widely anticipated IPO. <\/p>\n

Oculus headset creator Palmer Luckey, who founded the company in 2017, said he would “definitely” take the company public in an interview with CNBC last year. <\/p>\n

“When we founded Anduril in 2017, defense was not a category that attracted significant venture investment. That has changed meaningfully over the last several years,” Schimpf said.<\/p>\n

Defense tech startups have seen a bonanza in funding, including recent rounds from Shield AI, autonomous shipmaker Saronic, and several space companies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Anduril is also positioning itself as a key beneficiary of the U.S. government’s race to reindustrialize the U.S. military under President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n

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    The company recently joined a group of companies working on space interceptors for Trump’s ambitious $185 billion missile defense system dubbed the Golden Dome. <\/p>\n

    This year, Anduril landed a 10-year U.S. Army enterprise contract with a $20 billion ceiling and acquired a space missile and satellite tracking company. <\/p>\n

    Anduril is also one of several Silicon Valley-backed firms shaking up the defense contractor space dominated by companies like\u00a0Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and RTX