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Ethan Thornton

Founder & CEO, Mach Industries

About

Ethan Thornton founded Mach Industries at 19 after dropping out of MIT, building a vertically integrated American weapons manufacturer focused on unmanned systems and hypersonic-adjacent propulsion. Backed by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures, and Bedrock, Mach raised a $100M Series B in 2025 and is scaling Forge Huntington, its 115,000 sq ft Huntington Beach factory producing the Viper VTOL UAV, Glide, and Stratos under U.S. Army contracts.

Notable work

  • Mach Industries
  • Defense
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Propulsion
  • defense
  • uav

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