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Anduril Secures $2.5 Billion in Funding, Plans IPO to Fuel Defense Tech Expansion

The Series G round lifts the company’s valuation to $30.5 billion as it scales manufacturing and forges new AI and AR partnerships

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Overview

  • A $2.5 billion Series G round led by Founders Fund more than doubles Anduril’s valuation to $30.5 billion in under a year.
  • Founder and CEO Palmer Luckey says the company will become publicly traded to compete for larger trillion-dollar defense contracts.
  • Anduril is investing roughly $1 billion in its Arsenal-1 facility in Ohio to ramp up production of drones, sensors and augmented-reality headsets.
  • The company took over Microsoft’s $22 billion Integrated Visual Augmentation System program and is developing AR headsets with Meta for the U.S. Army.
  • Anduril has partnered with OpenAI on AI-driven counter-unmanned aircraft systems and will use funding to expand operations in Europe and Australia.