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North America has emerged as the epicenter of private capital flow into defense and space technology. What once was a slow trickle of early-stage interest has transformed into robust strategic investment from both traditional venture firms and corporate venture arms tied to major defense and aerospace players. VC Momentum in Defense Tech Venture investment in defense & aerospace startups has climbed from just over $10B in 2024 to more than $19B in 2025 (as of late November) —

Source: Shutterstock Safety-First AGI as a Capital Strategy Anthropic represents a different frontier in artificial intelligence: not embodied, but aligned . Founded in 2021 by ex-OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei, the company has raised $3.3 billion  to date and is positioning itself as a global leader in safe, steerable, and scalable language models . Claude, its flagship assistant, is designed with Constitutional AI —a unique framework that allows the model to gov