Amca announced a $300 million Series B funding round at a valuation exceeding $1 billion as the company looks to accelerate the development of a modernized industrial base for aerospace and defense manufacturing. The funding round was led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and continued backing from existing investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, Construct Capital, and House Capital.
Founded just eighteen months ago, Amca has rapidly scaled its manufacturing footprint and now operates six critical component factories across California, Iowa, and New York. The company also recently opened an advanced prototyping and testing facility in El Segundo, where it is headquartered.
Amca develops and manufactures aerospace and defense components by integrating engineering, qualification testing, technical data development, and certified manufacturing into a single platform. The company said it is focused on helping modernize a domestic supply chain that has struggled with declining capacity, increasing lead times, and workforce shortages.
The company’s manufacturing footprint now includes more than 123,000 square feet of qualified production capacity spanning major component categories including hydraulics, avionics, and power electronics. Amca also acquired BC Systems, a power electronics supplier that supports multiple classified defense programs.
Amca is also deploying RAPID, its vertically integrated AI-powered product development platform, across its manufacturing network. RAPID combines design engineering, prototyping, testing, technical documentation, and manufacturing support into a unified workflow. According to the company, the platform reduces the time needed to move production-grade hardware from development into deployment by more than 67% compared to standard industry timelines.
The RAPID platform is being used to engineer, qualify, and manufacture components for major aerospace and defense platforms including the F-35 and commercial widebody and narrowbody aircraft.
Amca currently supplies products to customers including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Airbus, Embraer, Honeywell, and Raytheon, while also supporting U.S. military sustainment programs focused on readiness-related shortages and declining supply sources.
The company plans to use the new funding to expand the deployment of RAPID across its manufacturing network, create and acquire additional factories nationwide, and accelerate production of components considered essential to national readiness.
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“For decades, America’s industrial base has become increasingly uncompetitive and capacity-constrained, leaving critical supply chains slow-moving and difficult to surge. To address today’s bottlenecks, Amca is building a new industrial base that is faster, distributed, multi-sourced, and ready to support the unprecedented industrial production the country needs, at scale.”
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