The game is always the same. Josh Kushner leads a funding round, then someone in the Trump environment boosts the company:

It happened with Cursor, where Musk completely overpaid (what will he get in return? a new kind of circular deal?)

It happened with Anduril (topic of this submission). Kushner led a round and days after Anduril got a huge Pentagon contract:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-admin-hands-mega-d...