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Machina Labs

Los Angeles, CA · Founded 2019

Machina Labs builds RoboCraftsman robotic cells that form, weld and assemble metal structures directly from a digital design, without hard tooling. It makes missile, airframe and automotive structures in its own factories and calls itself Machina in its 2026 releases.

Profile

What it builds and who buys it

  • ·A RoboCraftsman cell forms, scans, trims and drills sheet metal and adds welding and assembly, without conventional tooling.Machina Labs (company release), Dec 11, 2025
  • ·A significant portion of the Series C goes to a 200,000-square-foot factory, its third facility, designed for up to 50 RoboCraftsman cells and thousands of structural assemblies a year for defense and aerospace customers.Machina Labs (company release), Feb 4, 2026
  • ·The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded it a multiyear contract, with the ARM Institute, to automate tool path generation for airframe skins and panels for sustainment.Machina Labs (company release), Sep 17, 2025
  • ·In July 2026 it set up Machina Bellator as its defense contracting subsidiary, with John Borrego as president. Bellator operates in a CMMC Level 2 certified environment.Machina (company release), Jul 7, 2026
  • ·Lockheed Martin awarded it a qualification contract for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program, the first time an assembly from its factories entered qualification for a missile system.Machina (company release), Jul 15, 2026
  • ·Strategic Development Fund, an Abu Dhabi investor wholly owned by EDGE Group, signed an initial investment and partnership agreement toward a joint venture for metal structures in the region. SDF said its funding may reach AED 125 million.Machina Labs (company release), Dec 11, 2025
  • ·It works with Toyota on production-quality automotive panels.Machina Labs (company release), Feb 4, 2026

Founders and leadership

  • Edward MehrCo-founder and chief executive

    Worked at Google and Microsoft, joined SpaceX in 2014 as a software and control engineer, and was on the founding team of Relativity Space in 2016.dot.LA, Feb 2, 2022

  • Babak RaeisiniaCo-founder

    A former lead scientist at the aluminum maker Novelis. dot.LA described him as the company’s chief technology officer in February 2022.dot.LA, Feb 2, 2022

Funding

Last valuation

No citable valuation

Last round or tender

$124Mraised

Series CMachina Labs (company release), Feb 4, 2026

Woven Capital (Toyota’s growth-stage venture arm), Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures and Strategic Development Fund invested. The Form D for an equity offering begun June 27, 2025 records $38.9 million sold to 23 investors of $52.6 million offered, and does not name the round. No valuation was stated.

Latest revenue figure

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Valuation to revenue

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Post-money valuation by round

Fewer than two dated figures on file to plot; the table carries what there is.

DateRoundRaisedPost-money
Feb 4, 2026Series CWoven Capital (Toyota’s growth-stage venture arm), Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures and Strategic Development Fund invested. The Form D for an equity offering begun June 27, 2025 records $38.9 million sold to 23 investors of $52.6 million offered, and does not name the round. No valuation was stated.$124M—
Oct 6, 2023Series BCo-led by NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture arm, and Innovation Endeavors. The company said total funding reached $45 million. The Form D for an equity offering begun September 19, 2023 records $31.2 million sold to 31 investors of $31.8 million offered. No valuation was stated.$32M—
Nov 17, 2021Series ATechCrunch reported a $14 million Series A led by Innovation Endeavors, with Congruent Ventures and Embark Ventures, bringing total funding to $16.3 million. No valuation was stated.$14M—

Primary capital across the rounds on file: $170M

Revenue

No citable revenue figure on file.

Secondary venues

  • Caplightpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

    No price on the public page.

    No public MarketPrice; historical pricing is behind a login. The page shows Caplight’s last-round figures, the February 2026 Series C with a $346 million estimated valuation, an aggregator’s figure. It lists the company in Chatsworth, California.

  • Nasdaq Private Marketpublic page seen Oct 15, 2026

    No price on the public page.

    The page shows no figure in its text or its title. Price estimates and valuation history are behind sign-up.

A venue is listed when its public page named the company on the date shown. A price is the figure that page showed, under the venue’s own name for it and dated as the venue dated it; it is a level the venue publishes, not a trade. Nothing is recorded from behind a login.

Reads

Tracked only. No read has been prepared for this company; the figures above are the record.

Sources

Researched Oct 15, 2026