Thoronton told Tech Crunch that Sequrea -backed Mach Industries, Defense Tech, was established by 21 -year -old Ethan Thornton, contracted with the US Army and has its first factory projects.
The factory will be 115,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, California, where the headquarters of the Mitch is located, CEO Thotten said. Although it looks like an expensive zip code for a weapons factory, in the shadow of southern California – SpaceX – the growing defense tech industry has become a hotspot.
Mach is also announcing that he was chosen by him Army Applications Laboratory The vertical take -off presented cruise missiles are called the “Strategic Strike”. It was a development contract that was given in the third quarter of 2024.
Thoronton told Tech Crunch that he and the US military are now announcing the deal because the technology successfully fulfilled its initial flight tests last month.
As far as the factory is concerned, this is another area where defensive tech companies like Mitch, Pls AndurilTrying to innovate, innovation. Mach factory, called it forge 1, plans to build the company.
He explained, “Instead of a lot of central factories, we will build a lot of small factories so that there are really survival defense industrial bases.” The factories will be designed to take raw materials through the final assembly.
In addition to the other sets in the United States so far, he also expects international locations.
The Huntington Factory is already building both the company’s major products, a weapon called glide and a super -light jet -powered vertical take -off and landing unmanned air vehicle (UAV), called Veper. Viper is known for his fully vertical tech office, which does not require a runway, and Mach says 300 times less expensive for its construction than traditional United Arab Emirates.
“This type of wiper factories can be manufactured in the web, and this is a big deal. You do not need special special tooling to make it, which means that if the United States wants to increase production, we will not rely on these central places.
Glide is a bomb deployed by a balloon -like car on the edge of the space. It is understood that the glide will be further enhanced (Mach claims that it will have an unlimited limit on the goals of the earth) and makes it difficult to shoot.
The first factory should be able to produce 1,000 wipers and 3,000 glides a day a day, Thornton says.
Teen founder, m 85m in funding
Mach Industries is a Boose Defense Tech Startup because it was Sequrea’s first defense tech investment and even when it founded the company, Thorntan was teenager.
When he was only 19 years old, he was out of MIT to work on the Mitch and soon Stephanie Jean and Sean Maguer of Sequrea landed as an investor. They led the mitch’s $ 7.7 million seed round Announced In June 2023. A few months later, in October, 2023, the founder of Jeff Lewis Baderick Capital led Mitch Million 79 million series A.
While there are many founders of the Defense Tech Industry (Palm Loki was in the mid -20s when it founded Andorel), the company’s motivation came when Thornton was still in high school.
“At high school, I operated a wood and metal workshop to bootstream and start making the initial products. And then probably the most dangerous task I did, I got out of MIT – before we had the capital, or before I had a team.
Subsequently, Mach has become one of the “IT” companies in Defense Tech. For example, this is one of the handful of companies Patterson Connewing the famous ex -Palmator recruiting Works with. Now it hires dozens.