Two years ago, Vishaal Mali, Kai Yin and Aiden Jenkins left their engineering jobs at Anduril’s futuristic, high-ceiling office to spend their days in a two-car garage building defense tech startup Salient Motion. For 15 hours a day, the three men soldered airplane parts together, huddled around a propane tank heater (the only source of […]
Anduril speeds up launch of defense payloads by buying Apex satellite buses off the shelf
Anduril is expanding even further into the “ultimate high ground.” The company, which is best known for AI-powered defense products that span air, land and sea, is partnering with satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space to rapidly deploy payloads on orbit for the U.S. Department of Defense. It is a rare instance of the growing […]
Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Palmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $ 2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense. Anduril will soon embed its software into the Integrated Visual Augmentation System headset developed by Microsoft for the U.S. military in 2021. According to […]
Anduril raises $1.5B at a $14B valuation
Defense tech startup Anduril has closed what will almost certainly end up being one of the largest funding rounds of the year: a $ 1.5 billion deal that values the company at $ 14 billion. Anduril has ambitions of becoming the next great American defense contractor, joining a class of companies that has shrunk to […]
Anduril moves ahead in Pentagon program to develop unmanned fighter jets
Anduril Industries has taken another step forward in its quest to become the next great American prime, this time by beating out major defense companies to develop and test small unmanned fighter jet prototypes. The venture capital darling beat out Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman on the deal, under the Air Force’s Collaborative Combat […]