Salient Motion, a Culver City, CA-based aerospace and defense component supplier, raised $12M in total funding.
The Pre-Seed and Seed rounds were led by Cantos Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, AE Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, and BoxGroup.
The company intends to use the funds to scale its engineering team, accelerate product development, and expand its manufacturing footprint in Southern California with a new lease in Torrance.
Founded in 2022 and led by CEO Vishaal Mali, Salient Motion improves motion control design, focusing on building and certifying modular actuation systems for highly regulated industries such as aerospace, military defense, and advanced manufacturing. The team was built with an initial focus on building flight certifiable systems for commercial aviation that can be reused across multiple component categories. Since the initial inception, it has expanded its product portfolio to serve a multitude of industries including military, aviation, and the industrial sector. This expansion leverages the company’s core expertise in stringent regulatory environments to address similar challenges in adjacent markets.
Salient Motion’s technology aims to address challenges across these industries, driven by stringent, but often necessary regulatory processes, that result in high costs, supply chain vulnerabilities, and lengthy certification timelines.
Key features of the Motion Control Platform include:
- Modular design architecture enabling significant reusability across different components and DALs.
- Increased reliance on software for functionality traditionally managed by hardware.
- A streamlined approach to FAA certification, with the goal of reducing approval times by 50%.
- Enhanced reliability and maintainability, extending component lifespans and decreasing time and cost dedicated to maintenance.
- Focus on partnership, not purchase orders, with OEMs. Customers benefit from zero NRE and aftermarket revenue shares.
FinSMEs
01/10/2024