An Anduril Ghost surveillance drone. The company has raised a fresh $200 million in a C Series funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, it announced Wednesday. Under pressure from employees uncomfortable with defense work, many big consumer tech companies like Google GOOGL have shied away from security contracts in recent years. He sketches out an ambitious vision of leveraging its Lattice AI platform to network older ships, aircraft and radar systems. Brian Schimpf John Joh / Courtesy of Anduril IndustriesSchimpf says creating a pure-play defense tech company has allowed it to avoid the backlash from employees that consumer tech companies like Google, Amazon AMZN and Microsoft MSFT have faced over their defense work.

Source: Forbes July 01, 2020 14:01 UTC