Overview
- The company, called Cathedral, closed a $160 million funding round that sources say valued it at $1.4 billion with Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital leading and taking board seats.
- The startup was founded by former Department of Government Efficiency staffers Gavin Kliger, Luke Farritor, Marko Elez and Jack Stein and is positioning itself to pursue U.S. government contracts for military cyber work.
- Cathedral is exploring acquiring or partnering with a data center to secure dedicated compute power needed to run sustained, classified AI cyber operations.
- Reporting notes prior controversies involving co-founder Marko Elez and Gavin Kliger’s recent Pentagon role in the Anthropic dispute, which could fuel political and reputational scrutiny of future contracts.
- Industry coverage places the deal in a wider trend of heavy investor interest in DOGE alumni startups and warns that cooling‑off rules and possible congressional oversight could shape the company’s ability to win government work.