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Anduril Industries

Defense technology company building autonomous systems, drones and sensors.

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About Anduril Industries

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company based in Costa Mesa, California, that builds autonomous systems, drones, sensors, weapons and the software that connects them for the U.S. military and allied governments.Source [3]Source [13]

Its products run on Lattice, an AI software platform that fuses data from many sensors into a single operating picture and controls Anduril hardware such as Sentry towers, Ghost drones, the Altius and Barracuda families, undersea vehicles and the YFQ-44A Fury collaborative combat aircraft.Source [12]Source [3]Source [14]

Unlike traditional cost-plus defense contractors, Anduril invests its own capital to build products before contracts exist and then sells them to government customers. It is building Arsenal-1, a manufacturing facility in Ohio, and announced a second Southern California campus in Long Beach in 2026.Source [3]Source [15]Source [13]

The company remains privately held. It raised $5 billion at a $61 billion valuation in May 2026, after its CEO said revenue doubled in 2025 to $2.2 billion, and in July 2026 the CEO said it was in no rush to go public.Source [6]Source [7]Source [16]

What happened

Founded in 2017 by Palmer Luckey, Trae Stephens, Brian Schimpf, Matt Grimm and Joe Chen to build autonomous military systems. Brian Schimpf is CEO. It remains privately held; in July 2026 Schimpf said the company was in no rush to go public.Source [3]Source [4]Source [16]

Timeline

  1. 2026-05Raised a $5 billion Series H at a $61 billion valuation.Source [6]Source [7]
  2. 2026-03Agreed to acquire ExoAnalytic Solutions, a space domain awareness company.Source [11]
  3. 2026-01Announced a second Southern California campus in Long Beach; headquarters remain in Costa Mesa.Source [13]
  4. 2025-10YFQ-44A Fury began flight testing for the Air Force Collaborative Combat Aircraft program.Source [14]Source [11]
  5. 2025-09Won a $159 million Army prototyping award for Soldier Borne Mission Command, the follow-on to IVAS.Source [17]
  6. 2025-06Raised $2.5 billion at a $30.5 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund.Source [8]
  7. 2025-02Partnered with Microsoft to take over production and development for the Army's IVAS program.Source [11]Source [17]
  8. 2025-01Announced Arsenal-1, a manufacturing facility in Ohio backed by nearly $1 billion of its own investment.Source [15]Source [17]
  9. 2024-08Raised $1.5 billion at a $14 billion valuation.Source [9]Source [10]
  10. 2022-12Raised $1.48 billion in Series E funding.Source [11]
  11. 2022-02Acquired Dive Technologies, expanding into undersea vehicles.Source [18]
  12. 2021-06Raised $450 million at a $4.6 billion valuation.Source [12]
  13. 2021-04Acquired Area-I, maker of the Altius air-launched drones.Source [19]
  14. 2017Founded by Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens, Matt Grimm and Joe Chen.Source [3]Source [1]

Products and brands

How it makes money: Anduril funds product development itself and sells finished systems and software to defense customers, rather than relying mainly on cost-plus development contracts; as of 2025 it spent more than 60% of revenue on R&D, according to Contrary Research.Source [3]

Leadership

Brian SchimpfCo-founder and CEOSource [3]Source [12]Source [6]Since 2017
Trae StephensCo-founder and Executive ChairmanSource [3]Source [10]
Matt GrimmCo-founder and Chief Operating OfficerSource [3]
Christian BrosePresident and Chief Strategy OfficerSource [21]Since 2025
Matthew SteckmanPresident and Chief Business OfficerSource [21]Since 2025

Funding and financials

Valuation
$61 billion (May 2026)Source [6]Source [7]
Revenue
$2.2 billion (2025)Source [7]
Revenue
About $1 billion (2024)Source [8]
DateRoundAmountInvestors
2026-05Series HSource [6]Source [7]$5 billionLed by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz; $61 billion valuation
2025-06Series GSource [8]$2.5 billionLed by Founders Fund; $30.5 billion valuation
2024-08Series FSource [9]Source [10]$1.5 billionCo-led by Founders Fund and Sands Capital; $14 billion valuation
2022-12Series ESource [11]Source [10]$1.48 billion$8.5 billion valuation
2021-06Series DSource [12]$450 millionLed by Elad Gil; $4.6 billion post-money

Notable acquisitions

ExoAnalytic SolutionsSource [11]2026
American Infrared SolutionsSource [11]2025
KlasSource [22]Source [11]2025
Numerica (radar and command-and-control businesses)Source [11]2025
Blue Force TechnologiesSource [11]2023
AdranosSource [11]2023
Dive TechnologiesSource [18]Source [11]2022
Copious ImagingSource [11]2021
Area-ISource [19]Source [11]2021

People on Founded, and where they went next

1 person on record, connected to 1 other company.

PersonHereAlso built
Palmer LuckeyCo-founder2017 to nowOculus VR2012 to 2017Acquired

Sources

  1. Cramer Announces UAS Summit Guest, Office of U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, 2024-08-15. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  2. Anduril Goes Big With Costa Mesa HQ, Orange County Business Journal, 2021-02-07. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  3. Anduril Industries Business Breakdown & Founding Story, Contrary Research, 2026-04-28. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  4. Anduril Industries, Wikipedia. Accessed Sep 28, 2026.
  5. Palmer Luckey says the coolest thing about Anduril expanding to Long Beach is the fighter jets, TechCrunch, 2026-01-22. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  6. Anduril Announces $5B Series H Raise, Anduril Industries, 2026-05-13. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  7. Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B, TechCrunch, 2026-05-13. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  8. Anduril raises $2.5B at $30.5B valuation led by Founders Fund, TechCrunch, 2025-06-05. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  9. Anduril Raises $1.5 Billion to Rebuild the Arsenal of Democracy, Anduril Industries, 2024-08-07. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  10. Anduril raises $1.5B at a $14B valuation, TechCrunch, 2024-08-07. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  11. Anduril Newsroom (RSS feed of news releases), Anduril Industries. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  12. Anduril Raises $450 Million in Series D Funding, Anduril Industries, 2021-06-17. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  13. Anduril Announces Major California Expansion with New Long Beach Campus, Anduril Industries, 2026-01-22. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  14. Anduril's YFQ-44A Begins Flight Testing for the Collaborative Combat Aircraft Program, Anduril Industries, 2025-10-31. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  15. Anduril Building Arsenal-1 Hyperscale Manufacturing Facility in Ohio, Anduril Industries, 2025-01-16. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  16. Anduril CEO says it's bad to IPO in 'middle of a hype cycle', CNBC, 2026-07-09. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  17. Anduril Awarded Contract to Redefine the Future of Mixed Reality, Anduril Industries, 2025-09-08. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  18. Anduril Industries Acquires Dive Technologies, Anduril Industries, 2022-02-02. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  19. Anduril Industries Acquires Area-I, Adds ALTIUS Capabilities to Hardware Portfolio, Anduril Industries, 2021-04-01. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  20. Newsroom, Anduril Industries. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  21. Anduril Announces Key Leadership Promotions, Anduril Industries, 2025-01-23. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.
  22. Anduril to Acquire Klas to Build the Future of Tactical Compute and Communications, Anduril Industries, 2025-05-05. Accessed Oct 2, 2026.

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