Hermeus moves HQ to El Segundo with new funding.
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Hermeus moves HQ to El Segundo with new funding. Published on April 07, 2026 Hermeus, the Atlanta-born hypersonic aircraft startup that wants to make "really, really fast" the new normal, is shifting its headquarters to El Segundo and settling into executive offices at the revamped 888 North Douglas campus. The company will hang on to its large Atlanta production factory for assembly work, while executive, design, and prototyping teams head to the South Bay, adding one more high-profile aerospace name to the growing cluster near Los Angeles International Airport. Funding and A West Coast push. The headquarters news dropped the same day Hermeus revealed a $350 million financing round led by Khosla Ventures that pegs the company's value at about $1 billion, according to the Los Angeles Times. The paper reports Hermeus has now raised roughly $500 million in equity and debt, including a $100 million round led by Sam Altman in 2022, as it races to get hardware in the air. CEO AJ Piplica told the Los Angeles Times the startup has pulled in engineering talent from SpaceX while it builds toward a faster, more iterative aircraft development cycle. The outlet also notes that Hermeus is keeping its 110,000-square-foot Atlanta facility as a production hub, even as the corporate center of gravity shifts west. Prototype flights and testing. On the flight-test front, Hermeus says...
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