Boom Supersonic just landed a fresh $300M Series B, and it feels like someone plugged the future straight into a power socket. Darsana Capital Partners led the charge, with Altimeter Capital, ARK Invest, Bessemer Venture Partners, Robinhood Ventures, and Y Combinator stacking in behind them. That lineup does not chase shiny objects. It bets on inevitabilities. Blake Scholl, Joe Wilding, and Josh Krall built Boom on the idea that speed still matters in a world drowning in delays, and now the capital is catching up to the conviction. When your privately developed XB 1 breaks Mach 1.1 and the only follow up is to say you are just getting warmed up, investors tend to lean forward.
The beauty of what Boom is doing is the dual track strategy. Overture aims straight at 600+ global routes where time is still the ultimate luxury, and United Airlines, American Airlines, and Japan Airlines have already locked in 130+ pre orders. Then Boom engineered Symphony, a supersonic turbofan designed without afterburners, and spun out Superpower, a 42 MW turbine built for AI datacenters. Crusoe immediately dropped a 1.25B order for 29 units that deliver 1.21 GW of generating capacity starting in 2027. That is not a side hustle. That is aerospace funding itself by selling the future’s electricity to the companies feeding the GPU boom.
Leadership depth is the reason this machine keeps accelerating. Senior VP Finance Adam Dubas ensures every dollar pushes the mission forward. VP Manufacturing Chris Taylor turns steel, composites, and ambition into a 400K sq ft superfactory in Greensboro. SVP Programs Jeff Mabry brings the test discipline you only get from the US Naval Test Pilot School. SVP Gov’t Relations Rachel Devine keeps federal momentum aligned with engineering reality. Chief Legal Officer Rich Harris makes sure every certification path stays clean. SVP Supply and Ops Chris Chadwick ensures the engine of production never chokes. It is a roster built for turbulence.
The real lesson here is that Boom never waited for the market to make space. It forced the market to acknowledge what was possible. Build the demo plane. Prove it can break the sound barrier. Build the factory. Build the engine. Sell the engine. Use that revenue to fund the airliner. It is a play that blends scrappiness with scale, the kind of move founders wish they could pull and investors hope they can catch early. This $300M round is more than capital. It is confirmation that flight, power, and compute are converging into a single narrative where speed becomes a competitive advantage again. And Boom Supersonic is writing that narrative in real time, one supersonic milestone at a time.
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