Peter Thiel-Backed Surveillance Startup Anduril Is Valued at $1.9 Billion
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July 13, 2020
(Bloomberg) — Anduril Industries Inc., a Southern California startup that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance, said it raised a new funding round nearly doubling the company’s valuation to $1.9 billion. Silicon Valley…
Trump administration pays Peter Thiel-backed startup hundreds of millions of dollars to build a virtual border wall
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May 19, 2020
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images The Silicon Valley military-contracting startup Anduril has been awarded a contract with US Customs and Border Protection to build a virtual “wall” as a means to monitor crossings…
Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall
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April 15, 2020
Trump’s xenophobic dream of building a “big, beautiful wall” along the Mexico–US border has moved a step closer to (virtual) reality. The White House just struck a deal with Palmer Luckey’s Anduril Industrial to erect an AI-powered partition along the…