Salient Motion
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Salient Motion Raises $12 Million to Scale Motion Control Business
Salient Motion, an aerospace and defense component supplier, announced it has closed $12 million in total funding, preseed and seed rounds, to transform the design and manufacturing of critical motion control components. The funding was led by Cantos Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, AE Ventures, Hummingbird Ventures, and BoxGroup.
Founded in 2022, Salient Motion is reimagining 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, Salient Motion 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. Underpinning every Salient Motion product is a proprietary motion control library driving electrical efficiency and cost improvements across a wide variety of electromechanical components.