Simply six months after protection tech Anduril raised a large $1.5 billion spherical that valued the corporate at $14 billion, it’s in talks to lift some other $2.5 billion, at a valuation of as much as $28 billion, assets instructed CNBC.
The deal would, now not unusually, be led by means of Founders Fund, which is reportedly writing a $1 billion test that represents its greatest test ever. Whilst Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is the face of the corporate, it names 5 males as co-founders, amongst them Founders Fund spouse Trae Stephens. Founders Fund has been an investor in Anduril from the beginning, main its seed spherical in 2017. It additionally co-led Anduril’s 2024 financing.
That earlier spherical was once to assist pay for Anduril’s billion-dollar guns megafactory it’s construction in Ohio. Resources additionally instructed CNBC that the corporate’s 2024 income doubled to $1 billion. Anduril declined additional remark.
