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 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.