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Custom Aerospace-Grade Battery Packs

Winter 2026Founded 20262 peopleSeattle, WA, USA
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Aerospace Battery ManufacturingHardwareDrone, submarine, and satellite manufacturersLow competition
Moat
Manufacturing scale; Starlink pedigree; aerospace certifications and relationships.
Key risk
Capital intensity; supply chain dependencies on raw materials; customer concentration risk.
Why now
Aerospace/drone/satellite production ramping; supply chain crisis makes in-house battery production valuable.
Competitors
Saft, Panasonic Aerospace, legacy battery suppliers

About

Kyten Technologies is building a factory to manufacture custom aerospace-grade battery packs. 100,000+ drones, submarines, and satellites are being built in the US, but the legacy supply chain can't keep up. During our six years at Starlink, we put 5,000+ battery packs into space. Now, we're bringing rapid development and volume production of aerospace-grade battery packs to the entire industry.

Founders ยท 2

Cooper McBride
Cooper McBrideCo-Founder
TeslaSpaceX

In the span of six years, Cooper went from an intern at Tesla to building and leading 30+ person engineering teams at SpaceX and Shield AI. His teams played a critical role in each company's industry-leading development pace, production rates, and reliability.

Lucas Maddox
Lucas MaddoxCo-Founder
SpaceX๐ŸŽ“ University of Wisconsin's

For nearly three years at Starlink, Lucas owned some of the program's most difficult and urgent test and manufacturing challenges. Before SpaceX, Lucas cofounded the University of Wisconsin's solar car team, building its electrical system and organization from scratch.

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