CEO @M3aerospace | Building the hardware infrastructure behind the word’s most critical systems | Berkeley Haas MBA
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Sebastian retweeted
I am hiring an absolute killer generalist / right hand type of person to come build america with me for decades - DM me
>writes code
>super organized
>wanting to work very long hours
>wanting to travel
>help stand up new factories
>talk to customers
>can manage teams
>hires superstars
>self autonomous
>ideas ideas ideas
>attention to immense detail
willing to pay well and significant equity
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My father worked every day of my life from 4am to 9pm. I didn’t get to see him much. His sacrifice was the reason we made it in the USA.
Now, through manufacturing and @M3Aerospace, I get to spend almost every hour with him.
Breakfast talks about financials with mom, loading material, running the shop, dreaming at night.
Manufacturing isn’t just about reindustrializing America for me.
It’s given me an opportunity to reclaim lost time with my dad. 🇺🇸
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the house just passed h.r. 3174 which doubles sba manufacturing loan limits to $10m.
the critical question is whether this is actually useful for manufacturing/deep tech/hardware startups that are burning cash. i read the guidance and the answer is yes but the mechanism is subtle.
normally sba loans are disqualified by negative cash flow. but the associated MARC program explicitly allows "projection-based underwriting." you do not need coverage today. you only need to demonstrate you reach it within 2 years.
this bridges the specific valley of death where you have orders but lack the working capital to buy the inventory to fulfill them.
it is not free money. the constraint is that unlike vc checks this requires personal guarantees and usually a 20% equity injection if you are a new firm.
but $5m was often too low to fund serious industrial capacity. at $10m this becomes a legitimate alternative to equity for financing the physical plant. startups may finally have a useful financial instrument to play with.
sba.gov/article/2025/12/01/a…
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Australia makes commercial space history
- @quantumdrones has raised €180 million in additional funding, bringing its valuation to €3 billion. Based in Gilching, Germany, the company develops a range of UAS, sensors, and mission-planning software.
- Terma Group, the Danish defense tech firm, has acquired OSL Technology, which develops C-UAS technology for critical infrastructure, airports, and more.
- @sfcompute has raised a $40M Series A. The startup operates a marketplace for compute.
- Endolith, the Denver-based startup, has raised a $13.5M Series A. The company develops technology that enables the extraction of critical minerals from low-grade ores using microbes and artificial intelligence.
- @M3aerospace, the El Paso–based precision manufacturing firm, has been fully onboarded as an official supplier to SpaceX for mission-critical components.
- David Kelly has joined @Parallel, the rail tech startup, as Head of Government & Regulatory Affairs.
- Maximilian Eichler has joined Isembard as Chief of Staff; Isembard is a U.K.-based manufacturing technology firm.
- SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday. The mission carried 140 different payloads.
- @SouthernLaunch, the Australian spaceport company, has announced the successful launch of AtSpace’s rocket, reportedly the highest commercial Australian rocket launch in history.
ALT Source: Southern Launch
Sebastian retweeted
What if years of critical supply-chain delays could be collapsed into months or even weeks?
Excited to share that Ad Astra Group, the organization I created for this work, is launching a national series of Industrial Base Hackathons to tackle the systemic bottlenecks slowing America’s critical supply chains across energy, defense, food, medical devices, aerospace and more.
Our first hackathon is happening Wednesday December 10, 2025 in Austin, TX, co-hosted with @Oracle, @exodysenergy and Texas Nuclear Alliance (@NuclearTexas), with early interest from leaders across government, industry, and manufacturing.
Apply to join here: luma.com/36bxlr6o
Submit bottlenecks and learn more: industrialbasehackathons.com
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To every veteran who raised their right hand and answered the call — thank you.
Today, and every day, we honor you. We are free because of you.
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We’ve bootstrapped something bigger and better than Heliux. If you’re a hardware company scaling from prototype to production we’d love to show it to you (or try it for yourself on our GitHub)
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This should look like a giant pot of gold for young entrepreneurs. Now is a great time to start a manufacturing business.
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📣 Meet M3 Aerospace!
From El Paso, TX, they are a family-founded, advanced manufacturing company specializing in precision CNC machining for aerospace, defense, and high-tech industries.
They're AS9100D certified and are committed to reshoring American production.
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Glad to have them on NORAMARK. 🇺🇸
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Isn’t it awesome you can log onto X any day of the week and there are 20 dudes building and posting about their factories?
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1/18 Introducing Frontier Valley: A new special regulation district in SV that’s larger than SoMa.
Once approved, it will be America's epicenter for physical AI and deep tech innovation, and will also be a template for "robotics-first" cities that can be replicated nationwide.
