---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-26-083154"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BURU"
cik: "0001814215"
company_name: "Nuburu, Inc."
filed_at: "2026-02-27T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-15T23:09:49.789401+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nuburu enters defense JV with Maddox to develop mobile additive manufacturing platform

## Summary
- Nuburu funds up to $4M in Phase I for Maddox's development of a containerized additive manufacturing platform for drone components.
- Phase II forms NewCo (60% owned by Nuburu, 40% by Maddox) as exclusive commercial vehicle for the product.
- Nuburu gets a governance allocation of 10% of Development Funds; NewCo's distributable profits repay Nuburu first.
- Steering Committee with 2 reps each oversees Phase I; deadlock resolved per agreement procedures.
- Initial 5-year term with auto-renewal; NewCo to act as prime contractor for US and EU/NATO contracts as permissible.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-26-083154
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BURU
- cik: 0001814215
- company_name: Nuburu, Inc.
- filed_at: 2026-02-27T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000119312526083154/0001193125-26-083154-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000119312526083154/buru-20260226.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Nuburu, Inc. entered into Contractual Joint Venture Agreement with Maddox Defense Incorporated (effective 2026-02-26).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: collaboration
  - Counterparty: Maddox Defense Incorporated
  - Effective: 2026-02-26
  source text: On February 26, 2026, Nuburu, Inc. and Nuburu Defense, LLC (jointly, the “Company”) entered into a Contractual Joint Venture Agreement (the “Agreement”), with Maddox Defense Incorporated (“Maddox”), pursuant to which the Company and Maddox have established a contractual joint venture for the development of a modular, containerized, mobile additive manufacturing platform capable of producing drone components, pods, mission-critical structural parts and related components for defense and security applications (the “Program” or the “Product”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000119312526083154/0001193125-26-083154-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.