Anduril in talks to raise funds in rating $ 28 billion

Just months after collecting $ 1.5 billion in a $ 14 billion rating, a anduril defense technology giant is in talks to raise another round of funding that would estimate it with $ 28 billion, stale has learned.

Round, a round G of $ 2.5 billion G, according to numerous sources familiar with the talks, is being run by the founders’ fund, where the leader of the Anduril Trae Stephens is a partner, which is expected to contribute $ 1 billion. It is unclear who is involved in talks, but the previous leading supporters include Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst and 8VC.

Anduril refused to comment. The founders’ fund did not respond immediately to a comment request.

The news of the talks comes among the interest of investors in technology companies that develop national security products to get to the Pentagon. Anduril was one of the first to build a business about improving US military skills. In recent years, it has provided billions in government contracts for the drones of attack and detection, autonomous maritime ships and software with it. And races with a growing staff that follow in its trail-unicorous value such as Dronemaker Shieldai, Autonomous Start of Saronic Boat and the Countess-Drone Epirus Company.

If it came, the new A anduril funds will last a hell of a run. In April, it won a US first phase air force contract along with General Atomics to provide autonomous drones to serve as “wings” to run fighter planes, beating mass tasks such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing.

Then in August, she landed her $ 1.5 billion funding round, led by Fund’s Fund and Sands Capital, which valued the company at $ 14 billion. Most of those cash are set for a 5 million -square -foot production structure in Columbus, Ohio to increase the production of drones and other products. He plans to invest “hundreds of millions” in the factory, which he claims to one day hire 4,000 people. It would be the fourth company of company production with others in Mississippi, Australia and Rhode Island.

Anduril recently announced that it was starting a consortium of defense technology companies along with Parantir, to rival the main defense contractors such as Northrup Grumann, Lockheed Martin and Boeing – in an effort to speed up the adoption of him in the army.

On Thursday, the Director General of Anduril Brian Schimpf participated in a Samit of the Hawaii Hawaii Government with high -ranking leaders by other prominent protection technology companies to discuss it. The meeting, which has not been reported earlier, was received by the Pentagon Indo-Indo command, which oversees all US forces in the region. He was one of the first high-level Summits of the Military to be held by the Pentagon since President Trump took office ..

Participated by leaders from Parantir, Openai, Shieldai and Saronic, according to a list of participants received from staleThe summit was held just weeks after the Chinese start of Ai Deepseek released a model that rivaled those of American counterparts, but cost much less to build. Anduril refused to comment on the summit. Pentagon and other companies listed above did not respond to a comment request.

Particularly missing from the list of participants: Defense tasks such as Northrup, Boeing Andlockheed, as well as companies led by Elon Musk, Xai and Spacex (who has billions of dollars in military contracts).

The possible result in A anduril’s rating comes as other defense -focused technology companies have recorded great benefits in the rating since President Donald Trump was elected, signaling the growth of defense companies; Parantir shares have been almost tripled since the beginning of November, and is now estimated at $ 256 billion. It also comes between open questions if, or when, anduril will be released-would be among the first manufacturers of weapons backed by the enterprise to be released in recent years.

The CNBC, who first reported the talks, revealed that the company’s revenues doubled to $ 1 billion in 2024.

Anduril’s associates, who includes Palmer Luckey, the company’s enigmatic public face, founded the company to produce sophisticated software equipment, something Dod and traditional protection contractors have struggled to do well. They have also designed their weapons systems to connect together to provide a comprehensive view of the battlefield and give soldiers easy to command them from distance.

The company has used its cash piles ready to collect smaller protection technology companies, acquiring blue strength technologies, which developed a anduril arm drone; The area, which made delightful ammunition; And DIE, whose divers a anduril is now producing for the Australian army.

Additional reporting by Jeremy Bogaisis.