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Sacra

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction.

Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Markets, Angel and Secondary Investing

Bringing transparency to private markets so investors, founders, and employees can build on conviction. Sacra delivers deeply researched insights on the private companies shaping tomorrow's markets. By surfacing the data, context, and operator perspective that are missing from private markets today, we help secondary buyers and sellers price equity accurately and unlock liquidity for the people building these businesses.

Private Capital Markets

<ul><li>For 80 years, the U.S. Navy projected power through $13B Ford-class aircraft carriers and $2.5B Arleigh Burke destroyers, but China&#39;s shipyards now outproduce U.S. yards by more than 100x in tonnage &amp; China&#39;s fleet already exceeds the U.S. by ship count.</li><li>Trump&#39;s &quot;One Big Beautiful Bill&quot; allocated $5.7B specifically to maritime autonomous systems including $1.5B for small unmanned surface vessels, $2.1B for medium unmanned surface vessels, and $1.3B for unmanned underwater vehicles, while the Navy&#39;s Force Design plan calls for more than 150 new platforms as the service gameplans for Taiwan invasion scenarios where traditional carrier groups are liabilities.</li><li>The unmanned maritime market is sorting into three mission-driven segments based on endurance, speed, and depth, with Saildrone ($43M revenue in 2024, up 231% YoY) building wind-and-solar-powered surveillance drones that sail for 365 days on less than 100 watts, Saronic ($12.5M revenue in 2024) building hybrid attack-and-recon boats that run for 4 weeks at a time, and Anduril ($1B revenue in 2024, up 138% YoY) building heavyweight undersea strike vehicles that slot into the Navy's big-ticket submarine budget.</li></ul>

For 80 years, the U.S. Navy projected power through $13B Ford-class aircraft carriers and $2.5B Arleigh Burke destroyers, but China&#39;s shipyards now outproduce U.S. yards by more than 100x in tonnage &amp; China&#39;s fleet already exceeds the U.S. by ship count.Trump&#39;s &quot;One Big Beautiful Bill&quot; allocated $5.7B specifically to maritime autonomous systems including $1.5B for small unmanned surface vessels, $2.1B for medium unmanned surface vessels, and $1.3B for unmanned underwater vehicles, while the Navy&#39;s Force Design plan calls for more than 150 new platforms as the service gameplans for Taiwan invasion scenarios where traditional carrier groups are liabilities.The unmanned maritime market is sorting into three mission-driven segments based on endurance, speed, and depth, with Saildrone ($43M revenue in 2024, up 231% YoY) building wind-and-solar-powered surveillance drones that sail for 365 days on less than 100 watts, Saronic ($12.5M revenue in 2024) building hybrid attack-and-recon boats that run for 4 weeks at a time, and Anduril ($1B revenue in 2024, up 138% YoY) building heavyweight undersea strike vehicles that slot into the Navy's big-ticket submarine budget.

Saildrone

$216B Drone Navy