A place for builders.
A place for builders.
Junto is built for the people designing, building, and funding the future of American industry. Most are operators and founders at hard tech companies — SpaceX, Anduril, Hadrian, Castelion, Varda. Engineers and designers working in atoms instead of bits. Investors who back this space and want a place to gather with the people they fund.
What they share is harder to name than what they do. Long time horizons. Skin in the game. A quiet respect for craft.
Membership is by referral and application. Intentional — the room is only valuable if everyone in it belongs there.
A members-only space to train, work, and keep good company.
Southern California has a long history of makers and builders. From the aerospace pioneers who shaped Hughes and Lockheed, to the engineers who launched the jet age out of El Segundo and Burbank, the region has always been where America builds hard things.
Today, the Los Angeles metro area embodies that same spirit and is home to companies like SpaceX in Hawthorne, Hadrian in Torrance, Anduril in Costa Mesa, and a wave of operator-led companies — Radiant, Varda, Castelion, and others — building defense, manufacturing, and space across the Southland.
Ten thousand square feet built around the things hard tech operators actually use day to day.
In 1727, Benjamin Franklin gathered a small group of Philadelphia printers, artisans, and shopkeepers — the Junto — to meet every Friday for mutual improvement and to help one another in business. Over the next half-century, they founded the American Philosophical Society, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Hospital, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Franklin was a builder. Junto was the builder's society.
Founding members, capital partners, and advisors are welcome to introduce themselves. Robert reads each one.