{"id":641060,"date":"2026-05-13T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641060\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:15:17","slug":"anduril-raises-5b-doubles-valuation-to-61b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/641060\/","title":{"rendered":"Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another year, another massive influx of capital for Anduril: The funding round that was rumored to be in process<\/a> in March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 billion Series H round at a $61 billion valuation, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, the company announced<\/a> Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This is more than double the valuation it landed just under a year ago, when it raised $2.5 billion at a $30.5 billion valuation<\/a> led by Founders Fund. (Founder\u2019s Fund invested a $1 billion check, the largest check it has ever written, it told TechCrunch at the time.)<\/p>\n

This latest raise comes after the nine-year-old defense tech company doubled revenue in 2025 to $2.2 billion, CEO Brian Schimpf wrote in the blog post announcing the raise.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, as much as Anduril is the clear-cut winner among VC investors, the Department of Defense is already giving signs that it won\u2019t lock itself into any one rising-star startup.<\/p>\n

Shield AI, another U.S. drone company, recently had its software selected<\/a> by the Air Force to work with Anduril\u2019s \u201cFury\u201d autonomous fighter jet, rather than granting the whole hardware and software contract to either one of them.<\/p>\n

Still, Anduril is hardly hurting by sharing. In the past few weeks, it has announced a number of contracts, expanding outside the U.S., too. <\/p>\n

In May it announced it was part of a contract with others to develop a space-based \u201cgolden dome\u201d<\/a> defensive system \u2014 a missile defense shield designed to protect the continental U.S. \u2014 for America. Anduril also announced a contract win from the Dutch Ministry of Defence and a U.S. Army contract for battle manager software, using its Lattice platform to analyze data from joint missile defense systems.<\/p>\n

“When we founded Anduril in 2017, defense was not a category that attracted significant venture investment. That has changed meaningfully over the last several years,” Schimpf wrote in the post.<\/p>\n

It has. To offer just a few recent examples: In March, Shield AI raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a $12.7 billion valuation. Last month, Hermeus, maker of hypersonic unmanned fighter jets, raised $350 million at a $1 billion+ valuation<\/a>, led by Khosla Ventures. And European defense tech darling Helsing is reportedly close to raising a new $1.2 billion<\/a> round at about an $18 billion valuation, led by Dragoneer and earlier Helsing investor Lightspeed.<\/p>\n

Anduril has now raised more than $11 billion<\/a> from investors altogether.<\/p>\n

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