Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B - BERITAJA

Another year, different monolithic influx of superior for Anduril: the backing information that was rumored to beryllium successful process successful March has officially closed. Anduril has raised a $5 cardinal Series H information astatine a $61 cardinal valuation, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, the institution announced Wednesday.

This is much than double the valuation it landed conscionable nether a twelvemonth ago, erstwhile it raised $2.5 cardinal astatine a $30.5 cardinal valuation led by Founders Fund. (Founder’s Fund invested a $1 cardinal check, the largest cheque it has ever written, it told TechCrunch astatine the time.)

This latest raise comes aft the nine-year-old defense tech institution doubled gross successful 2025 to $2.2 billion, CEO Brian Schimpf wrote successful a blog station announcing the raise.

Interestingly, arsenic overmuch arsenic Anduril is the clear-cut victor among VC investors, the Department of Defense is already giving signs that it won’t fastener itself into immoderate 1 rising-star startup.

Shield AI, different U.S. drone company, precocious had its software selected by the Air Force to activity pinch Anduril’s “Fury” autonomous combatant jet, alternatively than granting the full hardware and package statement to either 1 of them.

Still, Anduril is hardly hurting by sharing. In the past fewer weeks, it has announced a number of contracts, expanding extracurricular the U.S., too.

In May it announced it was portion of a statement pinch others to create a space-based “golden dome” protect strategy — a rocket defense shield designed to protect the continental U.S. — for America. Anduril besides announced a statement triumph from the Dutch Ministry of Defense and a U.S. Army statement for conflict head software, utilizing its Lattice level to analyse information from associated rocket defense systems.

"When we founded Anduril successful 2017, defense was not a class that attracted important task investment. That has changed meaningfully complete the past respective years," Schimpf wrote successful the post.

It has. To connection conscionable a fewer caller examples: successful March, Shield AI raised $1.5 cardinal successful Series G backing astatine a $12.7 cardinal valuation. Last month, Hermeus, shaper of hypersonic unmanned combatant jets, raised $350 cardinal astatine a $1 billion+ valuation, led by Khosla Ventures. And European defense tech darling Helsing is reportedly adjacent to raising a caller $1.2 billion information astatine about an $18 cardinal valuation, led by Dragoneer and earlier Helsing investor Lightspeed.

Anduril has now raised more than $11 billion from investors altogether.