Anduril, the startup Defense-Tech founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed an official gazette for capital with an assessment of $ 28 billion.
The company plans to collect up to 2.5 billion US dollars in the round, said the people who did not want to be named because the details are confidential. The latest financing would double anduril's assessment from August.
Anduril, the three -time CNBC Disruptor 50 Company, which took number 2 in 2024, aims to disturb traditional defense companies Lockheed MartinRaytheon and Northrop Grumman By developing your own products and selling to customers in contrast to the traditional military process of the contract and then building.
An anduril spokesman rejected a statement.
Luckey, who sold Virtual Reality Company Oculus in 2014 for 2 billion US dollars, was a public supporter of Donald Trump long before the president's return to the White House.
“I was longer than any other in the tech-for-trump train,” said Luckey, who started the company in 2017, on November 6, directly after Trump's election victory, compared to CNBCs “Closing Bell overtime”. “The idea that we have to be the strongest military in the world is really impartial.”
In December, Anduril announced a partnership with the artificial intelligence startup Openai's startup, which made it possible for the Defense Tech company to use advanced AI systems for “national security missions”.
It is part of a wider and controversial trend of AI companies that go back to bans for the military use of their products and in partnerships with defense companies and the US Department of Defense. In December, Anthropic and Palantir announced a partnership Amazon Web services to “make intelligence and defense agencies accessible” to Anthropics KI models.
While Anduril is still held privately, Palantir, who sells software and services to defense agencies, was publicly traded and one of the best performers on the stock exchange last year. It rose 370% over this route, with the past of the market capitalization increasing 250 billion US dollars. In its latest profit report this week, the company reported that the government's income had increased by 45% compared to the previous year to 343 million US dollars.
According to Sources, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is the latest Anduril financing with a commitment of 1 billion US dollar. The biggest check ever for the company. Thiel, who was a big Trump supporter in the 2016 campaign, is one of the co-founders of Palantir. Trae Stephens, partner of the Founders Fund, is a co -founder of Anduril.
The sales of Anduril in 2024 doubled to around $ 1 billion and the annual contract value achieved 1.5 billion US dollars, people said.
In 2023, Anduril started several new drones, which rely on the command and control software used by the US military and the allies for the grid AI-powered robotics systems for carrying out complex missions.
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