Nominal on Thursday announced a fresh $80 million Series B extension round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Founders Fund.

This followed the company’s $75 million Series B round led by Sequoia in September.

The company offers software that helps hardware engineers test their designs and began as a picks-and-shovels type of startup for the defense industry.

The three-and-a-half-year-old, L. -based company says that in the last 10 months, it has landed four of the five largest defense contractors as customers.

CEO and co-founder Cameron McCord (pictured) is a former U.

Navy submarine officer and an alum of defense tech company Anduril, which is also one of Nominal’s marquee customers.

So perhaps it’s no surprise that Anduril co-founder and executive chairman Trae Stephens, who is also a Founders Fund partner, led this as a preemptive deal, McCord told Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch.

Sequoia, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Red Glass, and Lightspeed also participated

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