{"id":566648,"date":"2026-03-27T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T00:06:08","slug":"shield-ai-nabs-2-9-billion-underscoring-demand-for-defence-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566648\/","title":{"rendered":"Shield AI nabs $2.9 billion, underscoring demand for defence stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shield AI has raised $US2 billion ($2.9 billion) at a valuation of $US12.7 billion, more than doubling its value from a year ago, underscoring investor demand for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/policy\/foreign-affairs\/labor-sets-up-1-billion-fund-for-high-tech-military-investment-20260217-p5o35k\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defence technology<\/a> and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Advent International and the Strategic Investment Group of JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co\u2019s Security and Resiliency Initiative co-led a $US1.5 billion series G funding round, the start-up said on Thursday (Friday AEDT).<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shield AI has raised $US2 billion ($2.9 billion) at a valuation of $US12.7 billion, more than doubling its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-566648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}