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| Field | 🇺🇸 Anduril Industries | 🇺🇸 K2 Space | 🇺🇸 Impulse Space | 🇺🇸 True Anomaly |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | private | private | private | private |
| Country | 🇺🇸 United States | 🇺🇸 United States | 🇺🇸 United States | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Founded | 2017 | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 |
| CEO | Brian Schimpf | Karan Kunjur | Tom Mueller | Even Rogers |
| Mkt Cap / Valuation | $61 billion post-money (a further round in talks at a reported, unconfirmed ~$100B was still open as of July 2026) | $3 billion | $4.26 billion post-money (Reuters-syndicated wire; not company-confirmed) | — |
| Employees | — | — | — | 250 at end-2025, targeting 500+ by end-2026 and 1,000+ by 2028 |
| Sector | Defence technology / autonomous systems | Satellite manufacturing — large, high-power satellite buses | In-space transportation / orbital transfer vehicles | Space domain awareness / space defence |
| Last raise / Last filing | $5.0B (2026-05-13) | $250M (2025-12) | $500M (2026-06-03) | $650M equity + $50M debt from Stifel Bank (2026-04-28) |
| Top risks | Golden Dome is a politically defined programme; a re-scoping under a future administration would strand Anduril's space investment thesis.; The $61B valuation (and a rumored, unclosed ~$100B round) rests on unaudited, undisclosed financials with no SEC reporting obligation. | Single-article flight heritage — one Mega Class spacecraft on orbit, mid-demonstration, against a $3B valuation and $500M backlog that assumes the platform works.; The Giga Class roadmap and '10 satellites per launch' economics assume Starship and New Glenn reach routine, cheap, high-cadence service — a dependency K2 does not control. | Helios has never flown — roughly $1B raised and a $4.26B valuation are underwritten by a vehicle with zero flight history, and the target date has already slipped from 2026 to 2027.; Customer concentration in national security — TacRS and NSSL revenue is politically driven and schedule-fragile. | Effectively a single-customer company — every listed contract is US Space Force or SDA, with no meaningful commercial revenue to offset a budget shift.; Capital intensity with undisclosed valuation — $650M raised in one round plus $50M debt and headcount quadrupling to 1,000 by 2028, with no disclosed valuation or revenue. |
| Next catalyst | Golden Dome SBI down-select (2026-2027) | GRAVITAS orbit-raise and 20 kW thruster demonstration results (2026) | First Helios flight (2027) | Kronos delivery (2026-2027) |
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