Founder Profile
Joe Chen
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Joe Chen?
Joe Chen is a founder of Anduril Industries, Inc., which was founded in 2017 with Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm.
- Company founded
- Anduril Industries, Inc.
- Founded
- 2017
- Co-founders
- Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm
Background
Joe Chen was one of the first employees at Oculus VR, where he worked on hardware as a product lead and ran non-gaming developer relations, then continued in virtual reality content and camera capture work before co-founding Anduril.
Founding Story
Joe Chen is a co-founder of Anduril Industries and one of two founders who came from Oculus VR rather than Palantir. His work sits on the hardware side of the company, the sensors, optics and airframes that feed the Lattice software, and reflects the early Oculus practice of building and testing quickly with commercial parts. He co-founded the company in 2017 with Palmer Luckey, Brian Schimpf, Trae Stephens and Matt Grimm. (Exact birth year remains publicly undisclosed).
Sources
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- CNBC: Anduril doubles valuation to $61 billion in $5 billion funding round (Anduril Industries, Inc.)
- CNBC: Anduril in talks to raise at a $28 billion valuation, with 2024 revenue of about $1 billion (Anduril Industries, Inc.)