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The @FT feature of Atomic and reindustrialization of America, out today, link below for the full short film.
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We're honored to be named to the AD 50. Every company on this list is betting that America can build again, at scale, and it's truly special to share this with so many incredible builders. Thank you to our team, customers, and partners. Back to work!
The 2026 American Dynamism 50 is here: our annual list of 50 companies, from within the a16z portfolio and beyond, building for America's future.
This year's theme is Production is Deterrence. "America's ability to prevent conflict depends on what it can build, how fast it can t can keep going."
A new generation of defense companies is moving from prototypes to full-scale production, and the industrial base has to keep pace. This year's list is organized around three pillars:
1. Systems: the drones, ships, missiles, aircraft, and spacecraft that deter conflict.
2. Factories: the plants, tools, and software that build them.
3. Inputs: the materials and power they're made of and run on.
Get all three right, and the impact reaches well beyond defense, to skilled jobs, revitalized communities, and the supply chains behind energy, housing, and everyday goods.
Meet all 50: a16z.news/p/ad-50-2026-p…
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Atomic Industries retweeted
there are only a few thousand people left in america that know how to design an injection mold, even fewer for die casting and other molds/dies. a dying art that will cost the economy trillions of dollars over the next generation if we let it slip away.
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Atomic Industries retweeted
we are reindustrializing so hard at atomic we keep needing these 20 ton cranes 🦾🏭🇺🇸
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Atomic Industries retweeted
When America innovates, we win.
Atomic Industries is proof that America First policies can produce globally competitive production at home.
Atomic Industries is proof that America First policies can produce globally competitive production at home.
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The father of modern forming methods
• be john wesley hyatt
• a printer from albany, new york, 1863
• a billiard ball company is offering $10,000 to anyone who can replace ivory. elephants are being slaughtered by the thousands to supply america's pool halls
• you soak cotton in nitric acid and add camphor t made the first synthetic plastic. you call it celluloid
• you test the billiard balls
• they explode. not every time. randomly.
• a colorado saloon owner writes you a letter: every time two balls collide hard enough, every man in the room reaches for his gun. sounds like a gunshot
• your factories keep burning down
• you never collect the $10,000
• but to process the material at all, you had to invent something nobody had ever built: a machine that heats raw material until soft, then forces it into a mold under pressure
• you file the patent in 1872 and think nothing of it
• you move on. you invent a water purification system, a sugarcane mill, a roller bearing
• you hire a 28-year-old draftsman named alfred sloan
• you promote him to president, then sell the whole firm to general motors in 1916
• sloan goes on to run GM, invents the modern corporate org chart, and builds the management template every large company on earth still runs on
• you die in 1920 having never collected your prize and not fully understanding what you built
• the machine you invented to make combs and denture plates is now how the world makes M1 helmet liners, javelin missile housings, UAV fuselages, body armor backing plates, M16 stocks, IV syringes, car dashboards, lego bricks, and iPhone casings
• 8 trillion parts per year. every one of them made by forcing hot material into a mold under pressure
• the entire polymer layer of modern civilization -- consumer, medical, automotive, defense -- runs through one process
• patented by a printer who was trying to win a contest he lost
• absolute, relentless consequence from a single failed billiard ball
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Atomic Industries retweeted
back in september, @patrickc posed an interesting question about manufacturing, is it some anachronistic pursuit to make us feel good, or a real existential threat that we should be winning across the board at.
i offered up my experience over an exchange here on X, and he o lunch at stripe hq. we had a fruitful conversation, i hope i tipped the scales more in favor of reindustrialization being a noble and worthy pursuit.
a few weeks after that i received an email from his team, they wanted to send a crew to make a short feature on @atomic_inc, as part of a series called lesser known frontiers - which they show their entire company during stripe's internal annual conference.
it's so cool they do this, so thank you again for everything @stripe, and please enjoy this little feature on Atomic
i offered up my experience over an exchange here on X, and he o lunch at stripe hq. we had a fruitful conversation, i hope i tipped the scales more in favor of reindustrialization being a noble and worthy pursuit.
a few weeks after that i received an email from his team, they wanted to send a crew to make a short feature on @atomic_inc, as part of a series called lesser known frontiers - which they show their entire company during stripe's internal annual conference.
it's so cool they do this, so thank you again for everything @stripe, and please enjoy this little feature on Atomic
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Atomic Industries retweeted
America may have one chance at catching up to and perhaps surpassing China in manufacturing and it's inside this factory in Detroit. We went to visit @atomic_inc and @aphysicist with the full episode down below on our YouTube channel
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Atomic Industries retweeted
the full core memory episode for atomic + reindustrialize summit just dropped, go check it out now!! youtu.be/EbFZ24Lffo0
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Atomic Industries retweeted
please redirect your eyeballs to this video right now. ashlee has been a champion of telling the story of hard tech for so long it's not even funny, and now he's telling the story of american reindustrialization. it's an epic adventure that only he can pull off. enjoy!
And episode 2 of our Detroit journey is up with visits to @atomic_inc, the @reindsummit, an interview with the robot form of @PalmerLuckey and the human form of @aphysicist
corememory.com/p/detroit-woul…
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2025 Wrapped:
> Series A complete
> Factory 2.0 underway
> SOTA mold design and simulation continue to make extraordinary progress
> Major software achievements in quoting and production planning
> AI designed molds achieving greater performance
> Shift to mass production using Atomic molds underway
> Massive pipeline exceeding capacity
> Ripping on all cylinders
> See you next year!
- Atomic Industries
> Series A complete
> Factory 2.0 underway
> SOTA mold design and simulation continue to make extraordinary progress
> Major software achievements in quoting and production planning
> AI designed molds achieving greater performance
> Shift to mass production using Atomic molds underway
> Massive pipeline exceeding capacity
> Ripping on all cylinders
> See you next year!
- Atomic Industries
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Atomic Industries retweeted
America. It's time to build and build better.
Our interview with @aphysicist on @atomic_inc and the @reindsummit movement youtube.com/watch?v=CyKqUU…
Our interview with @aphysicist on @atomic_inc and the @reindsummit movement youtube.com/watch?v=CyKqUU…
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Atomic Industries retweeted
The Krach Institute is proud to announce the recipients of our 2025 Trusted Tech Leadership Awards: @atomic_inc, @ReElementTech, Strider Technologies and the Government of Sweden 🇸🇪
Read more: techdiplomacy.org/news/krach-ins…
Read more: techdiplomacy.org/news/krach-ins…
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Atomic Industries retweeted
proud to announce Atomic Industries has raised a $25M Series A led by MaC Venture Capital and DTX Ventures, with participation from the University of Michigan, S&A, Calm Ventures, Blackwing, Narya, and others, to build America's next generation industrial base.
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Atomic Industries retweeted
i’ve worked on dozens of plastics supply chains… and i’ve seen 90% of them choke at the same exact point.
not capacity. not quality. not even materials.
the main bottleneck was actually tooling.
BUT in factory visit #51 (@atomic_inc), we saw what the future of tooling can the script using tech.
with traditional mold design & fab, most projects get delayed or derailed because it’s so complex - so takes too long and costs too much.
… or some program manager tries to squeeze the lead time and it all falls apart (i have seen and done this too many times in past lives🤦♂️)
there’s also a big domestic skills gap - that’s why people default to cheap offshore options. domestic often can’t compete on cost, timing, or capability when it comes to toolmaking.
also - lots of plastic parts end up plagued for life with efficiency or quality issues - because the tool design was never right to begin with.
💡 one of the basics in lean mfg is thateverything flows at the speed of the bottleneck. so you optimize that constraint above all else.
Atomic is essentially doing this ^ but for America’s entire plastics supply chain - using tech to overhaul injection molding tool design:
1) molds are designed with AI (holy grail design for ideal efficiency & quality)
2) molds are fabricated using state of the art 3d-printing and CNC machines
3) molds are highly instrumented to close the feedback loop and improve performance
the result? parts roll off the line 30-50% faster, making tooling & production competitive with China on both cost and lead time.
and the shop is just as impressive as you’d think.
thanks to @aphysicist and the team for the visit, for letting us host a mfg meetup with a hot dog truck in the parking lot, and for showing us the biggest 5-axis cnc machine i’ve seen in 100+ factory visits. 🦾
not capacity. not quality. not even materials.
the main bottleneck was actually tooling.
BUT in factory visit #51 (@atomic_inc), we saw what the future of tooling can the script using tech.
with traditional mold design & fab, most projects get delayed or derailed because it’s so complex - so takes too long and costs too much.
… or some program manager tries to squeeze the lead time and it all falls apart (i have seen and done this too many times in past lives🤦♂️)
there’s also a big domestic skills gap - that’s why people default to cheap offshore options. domestic often can’t compete on cost, timing, or capability when it comes to toolmaking.
also - lots of plastic parts end up plagued for life with efficiency or quality issues - because the tool design was never right to begin with.
💡 one of the basics in lean mfg is thateverything flows at the speed of the bottleneck. so you optimize that constraint above all else.
Atomic is essentially doing this ^ but for America’s entire plastics supply chain - using tech to overhaul injection molding tool design:
1) molds are designed with AI (holy grail design for ideal efficiency & quality)
2) molds are fabricated using state of the art 3d-printing and CNC machines
3) molds are highly instrumented to close the feedback loop and improve performance
the result? parts roll off the line 30-50% faster, making tooling & production competitive with China on both cost and lead time.
and the shop is just as impressive as you’d think.
thanks to @aphysicist and the team for the visit, for letting us host a mfg meetup with a hot dog truck in the parking lot, and for showing us the biggest 5-axis cnc machine i’ve seen in 100+ factory visits. 🦾
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