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Dominic Iannitti and the art of making paperwork disappear
A college idea about reusing data became a 37-year pursuit of faster, more reliable mortgage transactions. Along the way, DocMagic’s founder made room for long-serving colleagues, an architectural detour and a rabbit with a wardrobe.
Nick Callegari and the wall that carries its own builder
The son of a Florida construction worker went from spacecraft structures to a housing startup. At Verustruct, Nick Callegari is developing robots that climb the walls they build - with the aim of making a home easier to afford.
Karan Kunjur and the Case for a Bigger Satellite
Karan Kunjur left consulting, learned to run a startup, then joined his brother Neel to make satellites bigger. Their bet has moved from a factory-floor outline to a working spacecraft in orbit.
Nationwide Property Management lives in the small print
A Torrance property manager connects duplex sales, condo communities and a coastal mobile-home park. Its paper trail reveals a business where the details land on somebody’s doorstep.
United Customhouse Brokers and the 0.2 mm border
Two ceiling panels. Two tariff classifications. Inside the California customs brokerage that deals with the small details behind international trade.
Impact Production does the work after the logo
A hotel review card, a lobby sign, a conference booklet: the Torrance agency turns brand ideas into things people can actually use. Its business lives in the details that a design presentation leaves out.
Lukas Czinger
Lukas Czinger is the co-founder and CEO of Divergent Technologies, a Torrance-based company that built an end-to-end digital manufacturing platform fusing AI-driven generative design, metal 3D printing, and automated robotic assembly. He is also co-founder of Czinger Vehicles, whose 3D-printed 21C hypercar has shattered production-car lap records at tracks like Laguna Seca. A Yale electrical engineering graduate and former investment banker, he joined his father Kevin's startup at the most junior rung and climbed to run the company, holding close to 60 personal patents while pushing the platform from supercars into aerospace and defense.
Antares
Antares is a nuclear fission energy company building factory-produced, transportable microreactors that deliver strategic power for mission-critical systems across land, sea, and space. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Torrance, California, its R1 reactor uses TRISO fuel, sodium heat pipes, and a nitrogen Brayton cycle to produce 100kWe-1MWe for six-plus years. In June 2026 its Mark-0 reactor became the first privately developed advanced reactor to achieve criticality under the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program.