• Hybron Technologies

  Led · Seed · Apr 2026

  Hybron Technologies develops proprietary composite manufacturing processes—including a hybrid chopped-fiber polymer approach—that the company says can produce complex parts up to 100 times faster than conventional composite methods while delivering structural performance comparable to continuous carbon-fiber materials. Hybron asserts its components can be up to 90% lighter than many aerospace-grade metals and that its all-U.S. supply chain helps reduce costs. The company’s initial product efforts are focused on composite 155mm artillery shell casings and turbine fan blades, both in advanced prototyping. Hybron was founded in 2022, is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and is a graduate of the Northrop Grumman Technology Accelerator. With the recent $20 million Series Seed, Hybron plans to expand engineering and manufacturing capacity and move toward low-rate initial munitions production and broader commercial deployment.

• Space Kinetic

  Participated · Seed · Aug 2025

  Space Kinetic is a space and missile defense company developing a propellant-free electromechanical payload-deployment system. Its core innovation is a patented mechanism that ejects a diverse range of smaller payloads at high velocities from a host satellite without firing a thruster. The company was founded in 2022 by Scott Ziegler and Ryan Sullivan from a garage-built prototype and a springboard from the New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It is a cleared U.S. national security innovator headquartered in Albuquerque. Space Kinetic raised $12 million in seed funding, which establishes its current financing position. The company targets multi-billion-dollar space superiority and missile defense mission markets amid rising geopolitical tensions.

• Labrys Technologies

  Participated · Series A · Jun 2025

  Labrys builds Axiom, an end-to-end, military-grade command and control platform tailored to humanitarian, defence, and logistics users. Axiom combines biometric identity verification, encrypted communications, geo-tagged task tracking, and built-in audit trails, and includes stablecoin-based payments for areas with limited banking. The company was founded in 2023 by Royal Marine veteran August Lersten and former British Army officer Luke Wattam. Labrys targets large NGOs, defence contractors, peacekeeping agencies, and crisis response units that have historically relied on fragmented tools like email and unsecured messaging. The business has raised $25.5M to date, including a $20M Series A, and plans to use the new capital to expand AI-driven features, stablecoin payment functionality, and customer deployments. Planned product enhancements also include deeper identity infrastructure and stronger access controls to reduce fraud, impersonation, and operational risk. Labrys builds Axiom C2 and Axiom Communicator, a platform that combines encrypted messaging, KYC/e-verification, task management, real-time geolocation and digital payments (via crypto stablecoins) for coordinating teams in high-risk and humanitarian environments. The offering is described as a Slack-meets-location-meets-payments solution designed to replace ad-hoc tools like WhatsApp by enabling verified identities, networked coordination trees and integrated payments. The company says its platform has been used in the field, including assisting evacuations in Afghanistan (claiming 5,000 people helped) and supporting Ukrainian State Emergency Services during the Kakhovka Dam breach. Labrys is veteran-owned; co-founders include CEO August Lersten and COO Luke Wattam, who bring military and government field experience. The startup plans to use new funding to expand development and R&D teams and to build out a commercial sales team. There is no revenue or other financial metric disclosed in the article beyond the recent seed financing.

• Extropic AI

  Participated · Seed · Dec 2023

  Extropic is a US stealth-mode startup building a physics-based computing paradigm that harnesses out-of-equilibrium thermodynamics to merge generative AI with the physics of the world. Founded in 2022 and led by Guillaume Verdon (CEO), Trevor McCourt (CTO), and Christopher Chamberland (Principal Architect), the company is developing a new computing approach informed by physics. The core product is a novel computing paradigm intended to fundamentally merge generative AI with the physics of the world. Extropic raised $14.1M in seed funding to support its work. The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts. It remains in stealth mode while it develops its technology.

• Mach Industries

  Participated · Series A · Oct 2023

  Founded in 2023 and based in Huntington Beach, California, Mach Industries develops autonomous aerial vehicles and related weapons and propulsion systems. In roughly three years the company has grown from about a dozen employees to roughly 350 and operates a 115,000-square-foot manufacturing facility with additional design and production sites. Mach has five vehicles in development and expects production to begin next year on at least three systems, and it recently won a Department of Defense contract to develop a runway-independent strike aircraft. The company acquired solid rocket motor startup Exquadrum in a $50 million cash-and-equity deal and launched Mach Energetics to commercialize engines. Thornton declined to disclose revenue, but said current sales are split roughly 50/50 between government customers and other companies, and the firm is rapidly scaling manufacturing and production capacity.

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