Stand's Disaster-Resilience Pitch Draws $70M Series C at $1 Billion Valuation

Stand, the company that says it is making the world's homes resilient against natural disasters, has raised $70M in Series C funding. The round was announced in a PR Newswire release dated Oct. 15, 2026, and the release states the raise came at a $1 billion valuation.

The announcement describes the company's purpose in a single line: making homes resilient against natural disasters. It does not break out what Stand builds or sells to do that — no product list, no deployment numbers, no geography.

Nor does the release name a lead investor. That leaves the Series C without a publicly identified anchor backer. Stand's announcement also does not state what the new capital will be used for, and offers no revenue, headcount or prior-funding figures for comparison. The $1 billion valuation appears in the headline of the release rather than in a quoted investor statement.

A Series C is a later-stage round, the third in the traditional venture sequence after seed and Series A, and follows a company's early product and market validation. In this case, the announcement supplies no detail on Stand's commercial traction, customer base, or the scale of the housing stock it has reached to date.

What the release does fix is the round's size, its stage, and the posture Stand is taking publicly: a company selling disaster resilience for homes, now backed by $70M and priced at $1 billion.