MiLA Capital is Southern California's only hardware-focused accelerator that built and operates Toolbox LA, a large makerspace where founders prototype on the same mass-manufacturing equipment they'll later scale on, including PCB lines, injection molding, and CNC machines. Their program forces founders to "stay ugly longer" through a structured four-month process with daily accountability tracking, while their founding team brings unusually operations-heavy backgrounds from Boeing satellites, contract manufacturing, and cultural anthropology rather than pure finance pedigrees.