Covenant is legally an American\u00a0company, incorporated in the United States in 2024 and listed with a US\u00a0headquarters address. Its capital and branding are US-based.<\/p>\n
But its founder and CEO, Michael Kaufman, is a US\u00a0and Israeli national who served in the IDF. The company has a registered subsidiary, Covenant Technologies Ltd, which is based in Tel Aviv, and much of the research and development is done in Israel.<\/p>\n
Although the US\u00a0Army’s announcement avoided any mention of the Israeli connection, Covenant functions in practice as much as an Israeli entity as an American one.<\/p>\n
The testing of the Anthem missile took place at the Africa Multi-domain Training and Experimentation Centre (AMTEC), a new joint US-Moroccan military testing and training hub that was formally established in July 2026.<\/p>\n
Israel is not a part of AMTEC and no Israeli forces took part in the exercise, but the presence of an Israeli-linked firm testing a long-range strike system on Moroccan soil signals how the Accords are moving from\u00a0diplomatic normalisation<\/a> into concrete military-industrial cooperation.<\/p>\n Covenant has reportedly raised hundreds of millions of dollars from major Silicon Valley investors, including Founders Fund \u2013 founded by Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and an early Facebook investor \u2013\u00a0and Andreessen Horowitz, one of the largest venture capital firms, managing over \u00a370 billion of assets.<\/p>\n Until this summer, Covenant operated in near-total secrecy. It has only just emerged from stealth, it has no official public website, and its managers have largely avoided the press.<\/p>\n The company’s pitch is that Anthem is a lower-cost, long-range strike weapon designed for eventual mass production, potentially offering an alternative to larger and more expensive systems such as the US-made Tomahawk cruise missile.<\/p>\n