Anduril raises $2.5B at $30.5B valuation led by Founders Fund

Founder Fund has led another huge round for Defense Tech Startup Anduril with a $ 1 billion investment as part of a new $ 2.5 billion, the firm is the largest check so far. Anduril’s spokesman told TechCrunch that existing investors also piled.

Anduril has now doubled its evaluation with this series G Rise for $ 30.5 billion. A spokesman for Anduril said that the round was 8x times more oversscreen, which means that many more investors wanted to buy stock Anduril than the stock that was selling.

Anduril, which created autonomous weapons and software under their control, said that in 2021, the company had doubled its income after being transmitted to about $ 1 billion.

The company is enjoying a telwind from granting a lot of US Army contracts to develop new AR/VR headsets for soldiers. The agreement was originally approved by Microsoft with a total of $ 22 billion budget, but he was re -appointed to Anduril in February. This deal is so big, even it happened Palmer Luski, the founder of Anduril to publicly forgive Last week his former employer announced the partnership to create devices for the project for the project.

Anduril’s Executive Chair and Co-Founder Trey Stephens, who is also a founder’s fund partner, has published new funds in one Bloomberg Interview on TelevisionThe