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Furientis

Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2025

Furientis builds low-cost interceptor missiles designed for high-rate production, starting with ship-based interceptors. It makes its own solid rocket motors and seekers in Los Angeles.

Profile

What it builds and who buys it

  • ·It builds the interceptor’s seeker, control actuation, airframe and rocket motor itself, with its own solid rocket motor chemistry.Furientis
  • ·Every design decision is weighed against a rate of 1,000 units per factory per year and a final assembly time of 30 minutes per vehicle, according to the company.Furientis (company update), Oct 6, 2026
  • ·Tectonic reported that the company targets a price below $250,000 per interceptor.Tectonic, Oct 8, 2026
  • ·The company says it ran 21 vehicle tests in 10 months, 13 flight tests and 8 static fires.Furientis (company update), Oct 6, 2026
  • ·It has opened the first of two planned propellant manufacturing facilities, sized for up to dozens of motors a month.Furientis (company update), Oct 6, 2026
  • ·Its first funded government contract is a prototyping Other Transaction Agreement with the Department of War for a 100-mile-range interceptor for homeland defense; its value was not disclosed.Pulse 2.0, Oct 6, 2026
  • ·It was one of five finalists, with Anduril and Kratos, in the Tactical Missile Innovation Challenge run by the Naval Postgraduate School with the Office of Naval Research, and signed a cooperative research agreement with the school.Furientis (release via Venture Capital Access Online), May 14, 2026
  • ·It works from a facility in Los Angeles and flies its prototypes at White Sands, New Mexico.TechCrunch, Oct 6, 2026

Founders and leadership

  • Brody FranzenCo-founder and chief executive

    Started in rocketry at the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab, then spent seven years at Virgin Galactic in structural design, structural test and deputy chief engineer roles. He spent a year at Castelion, among its first engineering hires.Furientis

  • Aris SimsarianCo-founder and head of propulsion

    Spent five years at Virgin Orbit as a propulsion test engineer and later head of engine test, and worked in systems test of electric VTOL aircraft at Supernal.Furientis

Funding

Last valuation

$125M

Post-money, Seed, reportedTechCrunch, Oct 6, 2026

Last round or tender

$25Mraised

SeedFurientis (company update), Oct 6, 2026

Led by Benchmark, its first investment in a pure defense company; general partner Chetan Puttagunta joined the board. The company stated no valuation. TechCrunch reported a $125 million valuation, citing a person familiar with the company, without saying pre- or post-money.

Latest revenue figure

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Valuation to revenue

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Post-money valuation by round

Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.

DateRoundRaisedPost-money
Oct 6, 2026SeedLed by Benchmark, its first investment in a pure defense company; general partner Chetan Puttagunta joined the board. The company stated no valuation. TechCrunch reported a $125 million valuation, citing a person familiar with the company, without saying pre- or post-money.$25M$125Mreported
May 14, 2026Pre-seedLed by Silent Ventures, with Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel and others, including repeat founders from Anduril, Erebor and Armada. Announced as the company came out of stealth. No valuation was stated.$5M—

Primary capital across the rounds on file: $30M

Revenue

No citable revenue figure on file.

Secondary venues

  • Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

    No price on the public page.

    No public MarketPrice: historical pricing is behind a login, and the page says no recent secondary market data is available. It dates the seed August 6, 2026, two months before the announcement, and shows an estimated valuation of $125 million and total funding of $5 million, Caplight’s own figures.

A venue is listed when its public page named the company on the date shown. A price is the figure that page showed, under the venue’s own name for it and dated as the venue dated it; it is a level the venue publishes, not a trade. Nothing is recorded from behind a login.

Reads

Tracked only. No read has been prepared for this company; the figures above are the record.

Sources

Researched Oct 15, 2026