Anduril is in talks to sell insider shares at a roughly $90 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported on 14 October 2026, citing people familiar with the situation. The defense technology company is allowing employees to sell shares in a tender priced at $94.80 a share, with the offer capped at about $1.3 billion.
TechCrunch reported in May that Anduril’s $5 billion Series H valued it at $61 billion. A representative for Anduril declined to comment to Bloomberg.
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The key insight: As we read it, the number that moved is the private mark, not the cash: Bloomberg describes employees selling up to about $1.3 billion of shares at a price that would value Anduril at roughly $90 billion, five months after a $61 billion Series H.
According to Bloomberg, Anduril is allowing employees to sell shares “as part of a tender that stands to value the defense technology startup at roughly $90 billion”. Its sources asked not to be identified because the plans are not public.
The tender would give employees the chance to sell shares at $94.80 each, Bloomberg said, with the overall size of the offer capped at about $1.3 billion. Bloomberg said the tender opened on 13 October and is set to close on 9 November, citing one of the people.
Anduril’s valuation by round: $30.5 billion (June 2025) and $61 billion (Series H, May 2026), as TechCrunch reported, and roughly $90 billion in the October 2026 staff tender, as Bloomberg reported citing people familiar. The October figure is a tender price, not a new round.
The Step-Up From May
In May, Anduril announced a $5 billion Series H at a $61 billion valuation, led by returning investors Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, as TechCrunch reported on 13 May 2026. TechCrunch put the round at more than double the $30.5 billion valuation of the $2.5 billion raise led by Founders Fund in June 2025.
By our arithmetic, roughly $90 billion would be about $29 billion above the Series H mark, five months later. TechCrunch also reported that CEO Brian Schimpf wrote that Anduril doubled revenue in 2025 to $2.2 billion.
A tender of this kind lets existing holders, here employees, sell shares they already own. In general, money in such a sale goes to the sellers rather than to the company. Bloomberg described a sale of insider shares; it did not report new capital raised by Anduril.
By our arithmetic, an offer capped at about $1.3 billion is about 1.4% of a roughly $90 billion valuation.
The Structural Read
As we read it, a tender sets a price for existing shares without new money reaching the company, so it tests what buyers will pay for Anduril stock between priced rounds.
As we read it, the step-up is large for five months: by our arithmetic roughly $90 billion is about $29 billion above May’s $61 billion, which TechCrunch reported was itself more than double the June 2025 mark.
As we read it, the size is modest against the mark: by our arithmetic an offer capped at about $1.3 billion is about 1.4% of the valuation Bloomberg reports.
Bloomberg, 14 October 2026
“as part of a tender that stands to value the defense technology startup at roughly $90 billion”
Three Implications
ANDURIL EMPLOYEES Bloomberg says they can sell shares at $94.80 each in a tender that opened on 13 October and is set to close on 9 November.
ANDURIL’S INVESTORS TechCrunch reported that Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz led the $61 billion Series H in May; Bloomberg’s figure would mark the company roughly $29 billion higher, by our arithmetic.
OTHER DEFENSE TECH STARTUPS TechCrunch’s May report listed Shield AI’s $1.5 billion Series G at a $12.7 billion valuation among recent defense tech rounds.
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As we read it, Anduril’s mark sits at the application surface of that stack: autonomous systems sold to defense customers, priced by private buyers rather than a public market.
The tender’s terms as Bloomberg reported them on 14 October 2026, citing people familiar: $94.80 a share, an offer capped at about $1.3 billion, open from 13 October to 9 November. Anduril declined to comment.
What Is Not Established
The terms rest on Bloomberg’s unnamed sources, and Anduril declined to comment. The page we read did not say who is buying the shares, and we do not guess.
The page we read gave no figure for how many employees are selling, or for how much of the cap has been taken up.
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Bloomberg reported on 14 October 2026 that Anduril is letting employees sell up to about $1.3 billion of shares at $94.80 each, in a tender that would value it at roughly $90 billion. That compares with the $61 billion Series H valuation TechCrunch reported in May.
A note on sourcing. On 14 October 2026 we read Bloomberg’s report on Anduril’s employee tender as far as the page served it, and TechCrunch’s 13 May 2026 report on Anduril’s Series H. The tender’s terms are Bloomberg’s reporting from people familiar with the situation; Anduril declined to comment. The arithmetic is ours.
Gennaro Cuofano is a CRO and tech executive who has worked in AI since late 2015, starting with bringing NLP, natural-language generation, voice and chatbot products to the marketing industry. His background is in law and finance: he holds a Master's degree in Law and an International MBA with an emphasis on corporate finance (LUISS Business School and the University of San Diego, 2012), and worked as a financial analyst at a real-estate investment firm in San Diego and as an assistant controller. His work focuses on business model strategy, business engineering and, more broadly, structural analysis: how companies make money, read from their own filings. He created FourWeekMBA and leads research there and at The Business Engineer, his newsletter on AI and business strategy, with over 95,000 subscribers and more than 1,000 published analyses. His writing has also appeared on Entrepreneur, HackerNoon and Search Engine People. Find him on LinkedIn and Substack. See how we source.
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