{"id":1000302,"date":"2026-04-01T07:46:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000302"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:31:50","slug":"autonomous-shipmaker-saronic-valued-at-9-25-billion-in-latest-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/autonomous-shipmaker-saronic-valued-at-9-25-billion-in-latest-funding-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous shipmaker Saronic valued at $9.25 billion in latest funding round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saronic Technologies said on Tuesday it had raised $1.75 billion in a late-stage funding round led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, more than doubling the valuation of the maker of autonomous ships in just over a year.<\/p>\n<p>The defense company has drawn big-name \u200cinvestors as governments \u2060ramp \u2060up spending and seek to secure supply chains and maritime trade routes amid rising geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saronic Technologies said on Tuesday it had raised $1.75 billion in a late-stage funding round led by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, more than doubling the valuation of the maker of autonomous ships in just over a year. The defense company has drawn big-name \u200cinvestors as governments \u2060ramp \u2060up spending and seek to secure supply chains and maritime trade routes amid rising geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}