{"id":194355,"date":"2024-08-11T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/weapons-startup-anduril-hits-14-billion-valuation-plans-huge-new-facility"},"modified":"2024-08-11T07:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T12:25:22","slug":"weapons-startup-anduril-hits-14-billion-valuation-plans-huge-new-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/weapons-startup-anduril-hits-14-billion-valuation-plans-huge-new-facility","title":{"rendered":"Weapons startup Anduril hits $14-billion valuation, plans huge new facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/weapons-startup-anduril-hits-14-billion-valuation-plans-huge-new-facility.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. has raised $1.5 billion in a new funding round and plans to spend hundreds of millions on a new facility to manufacture its rockets, underwater vehicles and other autonomous weapons systems at greater scale and speed.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, which values Anduril at $14 billion, is one of the largest venture capital financings of the year so far, and reflects the company\u2019s success getting government contracts, as well as rising investor enthusiasm for defense technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Thiel\u2019s Founders Fund and Sands Capital co-led the Series F funding round, which has been in the works for more than a month. The deal nearly doubles the startup\u2019s valuation from its previous <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.anduril.com\/anduril-raises-1-48-billion-in-series-e-funding-ac8c7299d182\" target=\"_blank\" >funding round in 2022<\/a>, which raised $1.48 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense technology startup Anduril Industries Inc. has raised $1.5 billion in a new funding round and plans to spend hundreds of millions on a new facility to manufacture its rockets, underwater vehicles and other autonomous weapons systems at greater scale and speed. The deal, which values Anduril at $14 billion, is one of the largest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}