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Apex CEO Ian Cinnamon joins the a16z Podcast, discussing the answer to the question "What is American Dynamism?"

As more and more satellites are launched every year, manufacturers are scaling up to keep up with their customer demand. One new entrant, Apex Space, aims to shrink the timeline for manufacturing buses down to months and then weeks.

Meet Jimmy Downs, Apex's Senior Avionics Engineer

Meet Nirav, Apex's first mission manager!

CEO Ian Cinnamon speaks at the annual a16z American Dynamism summit.

Meet Chris, Apex's Supply Chain Manager!

LA-based satellite manufacturer Apex Space Systems has assembled, integrated, and tested its first satellite bus less than a year after beginning the design process.

Meet Mo, our new GNC engineer!

Meet Trung, Apex's lead HITL engineer!

When Apex Space emerged from stealth last October, the company had a provocative goal: remove the “new bottleneck” hitting the space industry by manufacturing satellite buses at scale.

Satellite manufacturer Apex will open a new factory next year to ramp up production of small satellites. The company announced Dec. 14 it signed a lease for a nearly 4,300-square-meter building in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles that will be a production facility it calls Factory One.

Apex is getting new digs as it preps to ramp up its satellite manufacturing. The LA-based satellite bus startup is moving into a permanent factory space in Playa Vista in 2024.

Meet Ashot Avetisyan, Apex's new Electrical Engineer

Meet Lauren Waltz, Apex's first Test Engineer.

Meet Paul "Chip" Cipparone, Apex's first Manufacturing Engineer!

Meet Philip, a software engineer at Apex! Philip brings years of experience and has been invaluable to the team!

On this episode of America Builds, Will Allen interviews Ian Cinnamon, CEO of Apex.

Learn more about Paul Attalla, Apex's talent lead.

Meet Adam Corey, Apex's new Head of Operations. Adam comes from Village Global, where he was one of venture firm's co-founders and Operating Partner.

Meet Nick, Apex's new systems integration engineer!

Meet Patrick Willard, a Power Systems Engineer working on avionics, electronics, and more!

Charlie Horowitz joins Apex from Palantir. Charlie works as Chief of Staff at Apex, helping with everything from supply chain to operations to recruiting.

Jacob Acosta, Caltech students, joins Apex as a summer intern to work on software engineering

Meet Richard Kalantar, who works on electrical engineering at Apex. Hear about his background, what drives him, and more about what electrical engineering is.

Apex is solving this bottleneck by building spacecraft platforms for this growing industry. Spacecraft consists of a payload (the thing you are launching into space) and a bus (the set of components that let the payload survive in space). Buses provide the propulsion, power, coordination, and communications f

Mike Tanzini joins Apex as a Structures Engineer. Mike brings a wealth of knowledge to the Apex team, with his career spanning form SpaceX to Virgin Orbit,

Apex is building its first Aries satellite, dubbed “Call to Adventure,” that it announced in April. That spacecraft remains on schedule to launch on the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission in early 2024.

Satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space has closed a $16 million Series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and new investor Shield Capital, as it prepares for its first demonstration mission early next year.

Apex's first bus will carry payloads from 3 customers, including a defense contractor, who Cinnamon noted is “one the largest established players." The startup raised an additional $16 million in a round led by VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Shield Capital, bringing its total raised to over $27 million.

Without question, we have entered a new space race that is moving faster than many anticipated it could. While the United States government continues to lead in satellite launches, the CCP is quickly gaining ground, a narrowing delta that highlights the growing concern in defense circles about the fragility of America’s defense industrial base.