Fund’s founders in conversations with a return defense firm Anduril worth of $ 28 billion, sources say
Krystal Hu, Anna Tong and Kenrick Cai
(Reuters) -I startup for defense Andril Industries discusses a new circle of financing that could increase the assessment of a company based on Palmer Luckey to $ 28 billion, sources said on Friday.
The founders of the Fund of the Technical Biliana Peter Thiela should lead a circle, which could be as much as $ 2.5 billion, according to sources, signaling a strong appetite from investors in this rapidly growing technological company of defense. The circle would come just a few months after the last increase of $ 1.5 billion with an estimate of $ 14 billion in August.
The founder fund has been an assistant to Anduril since his beginning of 2017, and one of the co-founders of Anduril, Trae Stephens, is a partner at the company.
The founder fund refused to comment on funding, which was first reported by the CNBC.
Anduril, based at Costa Mesi, California, develops autonomous weapons on a wide range of sensors, including drones. The company announced last month to plan to build a weapon plant in Central Ohi because it uses funds to invest in the construction of production abilities.
In 2023, the startup launched its Mission Autonomy grille, a software that was enabled to cooperate with the teams of autonomous systems during missions under the supervision of human supervision.
Before Anduril, Luckey is responsible for the founding company for the virtual reality of Oculus VR, which Facebook gained in 2014 for $ 2.3 billion.
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Thiel, who also confronted the Military Technology Company Palantor, was a long -standing Republican donor, including the support of the first successful running of President Donald Trump in 2016 and Vance’s candidate for Senate 2022.
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