Saronic closes $1.75B Series D at $9.25B valuation to accelerate a new era of maritime autonomy.
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Saronic closes $1.75B Series D at $9.25B valuation to accelerate a new era of maritime autonomy. Saronic welcomes Advent International, Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, BAM Elevate, and other new partners and recognizes the continued commitment of its existing investors, including 8VC, Caffeinated Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Franklin Templeton. At a pivotal moment for global security and economic competition, Saronic is delivering net new shipbuilding capacity made possible by its autonomy-first design approach coupled with modern manufacturing infrastructure. The ability to produce advanced, highly capable autonomous ships at scale is critical to preserving the industrial strength required to project power, protect trade, and sustain long-term resilience at sea. "Over the past decades, the U.S. has experienced a steady erosion of its ability to build ships and manufacture critical maritime infrastructure," said Dino Mavrookas, Co-Founder and CEO of Saronic. "We are confronting this challenge with a fundamentally new model of American shipbuilding, one that integrates first-principles engineering, advanced manufacturing, and software-defined production to deliver autonomous vessels with unprecedented speed, precision, and scale. The new capital will accelerate Saronic's ability to bring that model to life, generate entirely new classes of autonomous...
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Further, Saronic expanded its Austin headquarters to more than 500,000 sq. ft., opened new hubs in San Diego and Washington, D.C., and launched operations in the UK and Australia.
