Long Beach’s presence as an aerospace juggernaut is getting even larger.
True Anomaly Inc., a Colorado-based defense technology firm working on advance space systems, is expanding into the city with a 90,000-square-foot factory. The company is expected to start working out of the facility in the next few weeks. It is its first factory in the Golden State.
The property will be used for product development and vertical integration and will contain 20,000 square feet of office space. The company’s headquarters will remain in Colorado.
“Expanding to Southern California is a logical next step for True Anomaly,” Even Rogers, chief executive and co-founder of Ture Anomaly, said in a statement. “Long Beach has a deep history tied to aerospace and we’re currently at the forefront of historic innovations in the defense sector. I’m excited to grow our footprint in a critically important region as we develop new products and scale our capabilities this year.”
Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said the city looked “forward to the opportunities they will bring across defense, tech and aerospace that will make our community thrive.”
True Anomaly, which currently has 150 employees, has plans to double in size this year. The Long Beach facility specifically can hold a few hundred employees.
True Anomaly has been growing since its founding in 2022. In 2023, the company closed a $100 million Series B equity raise led by Venice-based Riot Ventures. Eclipse, ACME Capital, Menlo Ventures, Narya, 645 Ventures, Rocketship.vc, Champion Hill Ventures, and FiveNine Ventures also participated in the fundraise.
True Anomaly reached a milestone last year when its second mission, Mission X-2, launched its Jackal Autonomous Orbital Vehicle into orbit on the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission with Hawthorne-based SpaceX.
The mission came just nine months after its first mission and incorporated “product improvements and learnings” from that mission, according to the…
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