Senior managers of US protection firm Anduril Industries made a twenty-four hour go to to Israel to advertise offers with Elbit Systems, Rafael, and the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (MAFAT) on the Ministry of Defense. It seems nevertheless that a few of them invested privately in an Israeli startup.
The startup produces engineering elements and digging machines to be used towards terrorist tunnels and underground army bases. The Israeli firm, Traysar, which employs former staff of Elon Musk’s The Boring Company, introduced that it had raised $25 million from founders of Anduril and Erebor, senior engineers at SpaceX, Lux Capital (which invests intensively in Israeli defense-tech), Ora Global, strategic angel traders together with Steve Blank, NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista, Entree Capital, co-founded by Avi Eyal, and Craft Ventures, based by David Sacks, chairperson of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The firm valuation was not disclosed, however is estimated at $100 million.
Is Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey himself among the many traders? The firm refuses to substantiate it, however from issues that Luckey has stated on a number of events he emerges as nearly the one outstanding voice within the US protection trade calling for funding in subterranean warfare. “I actually believe that the subterranean domain will be the defining space. But nobody agrees with me, and every time I talk about it, I sound insane to people,” he stated final 12 months. Besides Luckey, Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf, chairperson Trae Stephens chairperson, COO Matt Grimm, and Joseph Chen might be among the many traders.
The Israeli firm was unveiled final week at an trade convention in Detroit. It has developed a miniature mechanical digger designed to dismantle and destroy terrorist tunnels with a hydraulic drill and a mechanism for planting explosives in tunnel partitions. The system has already been used towards terrorist tunnels within the Gaza Strip, and can also be meant to be used towards smuggling tunnels between Mexico and the US. The firm additionally revealed a tunnel boring machine designed to achieve bases deep underground similar to in Iran.
Israeli-US firm Traysar was based in 2024 by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, and Gilad Adin. Soffer, who for the previous decade has lived in Austin, Texas and serves as CEO of Traysar, is a serial entrepreneur who previously bought fintech firm Xperiti to Ipsos, and he was among the many founders of the TED group in Israel. Katz served in a secret IDF tunnel discovering unit, and Adin was an officer within the IDF 8200 alerts intelligence unit however is best referred to as the previous CEO of Channel 10 News, and is Soffer’s son-in-law.
The firm already operates miniature engineering automobiles towards tunnels on Israel’s borders, however the huge potential for it’s the US protection trade. “No-one will spend money on Traysar as a result of Israel suffers from tunnels. It has to return from a must hit subterranean installations in Iran, and to win a marketing campaign in Russia or North Korea or China, which declared three years in the past that its protection technique will embody warfare deep underground.
Published by Globes, Israel enterprise news – en.globes.co.il – on July 1, 2026.
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