$260M says this crew isn’t playing defense in orbit. They’re launching a full-court press on the future of space superiority, and they’re doing it with precision, swagger, and a hell of a lot more edge than your average aerospace PR fluff.
Founded in 2022 by former United States Air Force operators who saw too many blind spots in our national space defenses, True Anomaly isn’t here to make satellites prettier. They’re here to make space a domain where threats are tracked, countered, and neutralized, before the rest of the room even notices the lights flickered.
Props to Even Rogers, whose doctrine-writing days at the Pentagon now fuel a vision backed by cold, hard capital. And salute to Kyle Zakrzewski, the engineer-turned-orbital-warfare tactician who built battle-ready platforms long before “dual-use tech” became VC buzz.
Let’s not leave out Tom N. and Daniel Brunski, two more ex-military minds who traded uniforms for flight hardware and algorithms. Together, they didn’t identify the gaps, they built the system that fills them. Hardware, software, AI, ops, the whole kit and kaboodle.
Series C wasn’t some victory lap. It’s a war chest. Accel led the round with Meritech Capital joining, while the regulars, Riot Ventures, Eclipse, Menlo Ventures, ACME Capital, Narya, 645 Ventures, and others, doubled down like they’ve seen the classified deck. Stifel Bank brought the debt, and now the total haul clocks in at $400M.
Where’s it going? Straight into metal and mission. Jackal, the autonomous orbital vehicle, is scaling. Mosaic, the operating system for space domain awareness, is integrating. Four missions across LEO, GEO, and cislunar coming fast. 90,000 square feet in Long Beach is humming. Colorado's 35,000-square-foot satellite shop is lit. And the team? From four people to 170, and hiring toward 250 by year’s end.
Defense ain’t slow anymore. True Anomaly’s “fly, fix, fly” approach puts legacy primes in the slow lane. Their edge? Real-time AI. Operator-first design. Full-stack vertical integration. They don’t wait to see what space throws at them, they meet it head-on, with an OS, a spacecraft, and a plan.
And the customers? They wear flags. U.S. Space Force. Allies. Firefly Aerospace. The R2C2 program. When your software’s licensed by NOAA: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and your missions have “classified” clearance, you’re not pitching sci-fi. You’re executing strategy.
This isn’t about playing catch-up in orbit. It’s about building systems that don’t blink under pressure, and leadership that’s been there when it mattered.
Congrats to Even, Kyle, Thomas, Daniel and the True Anomaly team. And respect to the investors who saw what’s coming and backed it. The space race is back, and this time, it’s not about the moon. It’s about control. Total, tactical, AI-driven control.
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