True Anomaly raises $650M

True Anomaly said Tuesday it raised $650 million in a Series D round, valuing the Colorado defense-space startup at $2.2 billion. (trueanomaly.space) (bloomberg.com) The company said the financing was co-led by Eclipse and Riot Ventures, with new investors including Paradigm, Atreides, G Squared, The Private Shares Fund and VanEck. Existing backers Accel, Menlo Ventures, ACME Capital, Space VC, Meritech Capital, Narya and 645 Ventures also joined. (trueanomaly.space) (markets.financialcontent.com) True Anomaly said the round included $50 million of debt from Stifel Bank and brought total capital raised since its 2022 founding to $1 billion. Bloomberg reported the company plans to use the money to hire more employees and scale its satellite business. (markets.financialcontent.com) (bloomberg.com) The company builds autonomous spacecraft and software for military missions in orbit. Its main spacecraft, called Jackal, is designed to operate in multiple orbits as the Pentagon and its contractors put more money into space defense. (bloomberg.com) (trueanomaly.space) CNBC reported True Anomaly is building space interceptors tied to President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense push. SpaceNews said the new funding backs the company’s entry into that program. (cnbc.com) (spacenews.com) The new round comes almost exactly one year after True Anomaly announced a $260 million fundraise on April 30, 2025. That earlier round was framed as capital for spacecraft, software and autonomy products for U.S. and allied defense customers. (trueanomaly.space) (prnewswire.com) True Anomaly said the Series D will help it deliver “space superiority” systems at scale, language that reflects a market where startups are selling orbital hardware as part of national-security infrastructure. Reuters-style deal coverage from Bloomberg and sector outlets showed investors still willing to write very large checks for that pitch on April 28, 2026. (trueanomaly.space) (bloomberg.com) (aviationweek.com) With $1 billion raised in four years, True Anomaly has moved from startup pitch to heavily financed defense supplier. The next test is whether it can turn that capital into spacecraft deployed fast enough for the Pentagon’s timetable. (trueanomaly.space) (cnbc.com)