Anduril, a startup defense technology founded by Palmer Luckey, has signed a termino list to collect capital with a value estimate of $ 28 billion, according to people familiar with the issue.
The company plans to raise up to $ 2.5 billion in a circle, they said that people who asked them to be not appointed because the details were confidential. The latest funds would double the Anduril value since August.
Anduril, triple CNBC Disruptor 50 ranked No. 2 2024has aim to interfere with traditional defense performers like Lockheed MartinRaytheon and Northrop Grumman By developing their own products and selling clients, unlike the traditional military contract process and then construction.
A spokesman Anduril refused to comment.
Luckey, who in 2014 sold the Oculus virtual reality company for two billion dollars, was a public supporter Donald Trump From the time before the president returned to the White House.
“I was on the Tech-For-Trump train longer than anyone,” said Luckey, who launched a company in 2017, November 6th of the CNBC “Final Bel for Bell extension”, immediately after Trump’s election victory . “The idea that we have to be the strongest army in the world is truly non -partisan.”
In December, Anduril announced a Partnership with the launch of artificial intelligence of the OpeniEnabling a company of defense technology to implement advanced AI systems for “national security missions”.
It is part of the wider and controversial trend of AI companies walking backward prohibitions of military use of their products and entering partnerships with defense companies and the US Ministry of Defense. In December, anthropic and Palantir announced the partnership with Amazon Web services to “enable US intelligence and defense agencies” access to Anthropin’s AI models.
While Anduril is still holding privately, Palantir, who sells software and services to defense agencies, is publicly traded and is one of the best performers In the stock market last year, jumping 370% during this stretch, raising its market cap in the past $ 250 billion. Company reported In his latest earning report this week that state income has jumped 45% compared to a year earlier to $ 343 million.
Fund of the founder of Peter Thiela led the latest financing of Anduril, with liabilities of $ 1 billion, sources, the largest check for the company, said. Thiel, who was the main Trump fan in the 2016 campaign, is one of the co -founders of Palante. Trae Stephens, a partner at the founder fund, is the co-founder of Anduril.
Anduril’s income in 2024 doubled at about $ 1 billion, and the annual value of the contract reached $ 1.5 billion, people said.
2023. Anduril launched several new drones It relies on its grid software for command and control with AI drive used by the US army and allies to direct the robotics system aided by a man to perform complex missions.
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