Machina Labs vs Stoke Space
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Raised $124M Series C in February 2026 backed by Toyota Woven Capital and Lockheed Martin Ventures, launching its first large-scale intelligent factory producing airframe skins, missile structures, and hypersonic components for the U.S. Air Force.
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Machina Labs is an advanced manufacturing company that has developed a robotic metal forming process combining AI-controlled robotic arms, force sensing, and electromagnetic forming (EMF) to manufacture complex sheet metal parts without traditional stamping dies. Founded in 2019 by former SpaceX engineers Edward Mehr and Babak Raeisinia, the company's Roboforming technology uses two industrial robot arms, each equipped with a force-sensing forming tool, to precisely shape metal sheets into complex 3D geometries through incremental forming movements controlled by AI path-planning algorithms. Dies — which cost $100,000+ and take months to produce — are eliminated entirely.
Kent WA aerospace company developing fully reusable two-stage Nova rocket; $990M total raised with $510M Series D in 2025 from USIT plus Space Force contract competing with SpaceX for medium-lift reusable launch.
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Stoke Space Technologies is a Kent, Washington-based aerospace launch company developing Nova — the first fully reusable two-stage rocket with both a reusable booster (first stage) and a reusable upper stage (second stage) — targeting the medium-lift launch market with a 4,500 kg to LEO payload capacity at economics enabled by full vehicle reuse rather than expendable second stages. Founded by Andy Lapsa and Tom Feldman (both Boeing engineers) and backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $990 million total raised including a $510 million Series D in September 2025 led by Thomas Tull's US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), a $260 million Series C in January 2025 led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and a US Space Force National Security Space Launch contract award in 2025.
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