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Tech Crunch – How a hydrogen explosion led a teenage founder to become Sequoia’s first defense tech investment

Posted on April 9, 2025

As Sequoia Capital’s first defense tech investment, Mach Industries is an industry darling, raising over $80 million since its founding in 2023. Its founder, Ethan Thornton, now 21, began Mach as a teenage MIT student before dropping out to focus full-time on his startup. But a few months before landing a seed investment from Sequoia […] Read more: Read More 

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