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CHAOS Industries funding, valuation and investors
Builds distributed radars and sensing systems for air-defense and counter-drone detection.
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Funding, valuation & investors
Answer-first snapshotLatest funding
Series D
$510M · November 13, 2025
Latest known valuation
$4.5B
Series D · November 13, 2025
Total disclosed equity funding
$785M
Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.
Current status
private
growth · Los Angeles, California, United States
Overview
Los Angeles defense technology company founded in 2022. CHAOS Industries develops the VANQUISH distributed radar and ASTRIA long-range tracking system for defense and national-security missions. In November 2025 it announced a $510 million Series D led by Valor Equity Partners at a reported $4.5 billion valuation.
Why CHAOS Industries is interesting
CHAOS has a disclosed $510 million Series D at a $4.5 billion valuation and is attempting to shift radar manufacturing from bespoke systems to volume production. Its products address a growing requirement for detecting low-cost aerial threats.
Product & use cases
CHAOS deploys smaller distributed radar arrays and integrated sensing software to detect and track aerial threats, including small unmanned aircraft. Its VANQUISH and ASTRIA systems target different detection and tracking requirements.
- Counter-uncrewed-aerial-system detection
- Distributed early warning around military infrastructure
- Precision tracking for integrated air and missile defense
Key facts
- November 13, 2025: $510 million Series D led by Valor Equity Partners at a reported $4.5 billion valuation.
- May 2025: $275 million Series C; participants included NEA and Accel.
- 2026 a16z newsletter reports the company was making around 40 radars per month and targeting 100 monthly; the higher figure is a target, not observed output.
- VANQUISH is a distributed early-warning radar; ASTRIA is intended for long-range tracking.
Funding history (newest first)
Series D
2025-11-13 $510M Valuation: $4.5BSource: Read source · chaosinc.com
Series C
2025-05 $275MSource: Read source · chaosinc.com
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Competitive landscape
Edge: Distributed radar hardware can be produced and deployed differently from traditional large radar installations; performance claims should be checked against published range, detection-rate and false-positive data.
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Epirus adjacent
Electronic warfare and counter-drone defense, more focused on high-power microwave effects.
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Anduril adjacent
Integrated autonomous defense platforms, sensor networks and command software.
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RTX incumbent
Major defense supplier of radar and air-defense equipment.
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