Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?

Defense tech is reddish blistery close now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defence budget. A question of caller startups is chasing those authorities contracts, but according to Ross Fubini, the task capitalist who wrote Anduril’s archetypal check, astir of them will get mislaid successful the Valley of Death betwixt prototype declaration and existent accumulation deal.  

Watch as, connected this occurrence of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan asks Fubini — the laminitis and managing spouse of XYZ Venture Capital, built connected the Palantir alumni web and present approaching $2B AUM — what separates the survivors from the rest. 

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