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Upfront Ventures’ 2025 LA Hard Tech 50 showcases Southern California companies building breakthroughs across aerospace, defense, climate, manufacturing, and deep tech.
Reusable rockets, Starlink, and AI infrastructure to make human life multiplanetary.
High-power satellite platforms for multiple orbits.
Advanced space systems for connecting, observing, and operating.
AI-enabled hardware and software for electromagnetic spectrum dominance.
From spacecraft parts to orbit: a space company building the whole mission in-house.
Commercial space stations, research facilities, and satellite platforms.
Autonomous defense systems for air, land, and sea, connected by Lattice software.
American-made tactical drones and control systems, built for mass production.
Reusable rockets and launch services for orbital missions.
In-space manufacturing and reentry infrastructure for products made in microgravity.
Integration software and field hardware for connected mission systems.
Advanced American weapons, fielded at startup speed and scale.
Productized spacecraft platforms, delivered in weeks not years.
Take space missions further faster
High-power microwave and directed-energy systems for electronic warfare and counter-UAS defense.
Defense manufacturing company developing unmanned aerospace and defense systems.
Spacecraft and transportation services for moving payloads between orbits.
Building defense systems for domain dominance.
America’s new industrial base
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