8090 Industries
Verified$250M+ venture firm backing the industrial complex from energy to defense.
A directory of American reindustrialization — semiconductors, aerospace, defense, energy, robotics, shipbuilding, nuclear, machine tools. Filter by category, stage, and state.
$250M+ venture firm backing the industrial complex from energy to defense.
Factory-manufactured nuclear microreactors for AI data centers
Rebranded to Long Wall; building interceptors and hypersonic test vehicles.
Decision intelligence and behavioral simulation for high-stakes strategy
Closing the capital, talent, narrative, and coordination gaps holding back America's industrial base.
Radiation-hardened edge computing for autonomous spacecraft
Autonomous precision weapon stations — the Bullfrog counter-drone gun.
The source of truth for the global supply chain
Acquiring + modernizing legacy aerospace and defense suppliers
US arm of the global industrial gases giant — oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and electronic gases for American manufacturing
Americas textile manufacturer
AI-first defense prime built for the new industrial age.
Mass-manufactured nuclear microreactors for Earth, sea, and space.
AI-powered AWS and cloud cost optimization for engineering teams.
Mobilizing America to build for defense — early-stage A&D manufacturing and community.
The autonomy stack for every moving machine
Carbon-negative power plants built with rocket-engine combustion technology
Vertically integrated eVTOL airline building Midnight aircraft for urban air mobility and defense
Mass-manufacturable low-cost cruise missiles
Coordinated radar satellite swarms producing a real-time 3D map of Earth
Dedicated GEO broadband satellites at startup speed
Distraction-free writing hardware, designed and assembled near Detroit.
Electric-adaptive jet engine that's efficient from takeoff to Mach 3+
AI-powered tool and die maker reshoring critical manufacturing tooling
Desktop chip foundries — small, fast, radically simplified semiconductor fabs
Whole-home batteries that double as a virtual power plant
Brand consultancy for the institutions of the new American intelligentsia.
Autonomous retrofits for excavators, dozers, and loaders on real construction sites
AI-powered quoting and production scheduling for real machine shops.
Real-time geospatial intelligence from a high-revisit electro-optical constellation
Nonprofit accelerating the US Submarine Industrial Base
Autonomous warships for the open ocean, built to scale for the US Navy.
Bringing supersonic passenger flight back to commercial aviation.
Structural masonry and walkable urbanism — designed and built end-to-end in Oklahoma City.
Solo-GP venture firm backing category-defining American technology companies
An accredited online two-year college taught by Ivy-league instructors for less than a Pell Grant.
High-end autonomous drones engineered to carry third-party autonomy payloads
Privacy-first US mobile carrier with its own cloud-native mobile core
All-weather, day-and-night SAR imagery from US-built radar satellites
Digital Light Synthesis 3D printing for production parts
Mass-producible long-range hypersonic strike weapons for non-nuclear deterrence.
Coherent Distributed Networks — radar and RF sensing that turn many small antennas into one giant one.
Tactical edge power systems — silent, low-signature electricity for the disconnected battlefield.
High-field tokamak fusion, building SPARC and the world's first fusion power plant
Capital markets platform for the clean economy — IRA tax credit transfer marketplace
Binder-jet metal 3D printing at mass-production speed and cost.
Automated work instructions, generated from CAD
El Segundo's hard-tech residency for founders building for the national interest.
Autonomous robotic drill rigs for critical mineral exploration
Solid-state high-power microwave systems that disable drone swarms with directed energy.
AI-powered third-party and supply chain risk for governments and the Fortune 500
Thermodynamic computing for generative AI
Software-powered sheet metal and laser cutting with day-scale turnaround.
End-to-end space transportation: launch, lunar, orbital
3D-printed expeditionary drones, made inside a shipping container.
ION Factory OS for high-mix, complex hardware production
American-made autonomous GPU-equipped drones for delivery, reconnaissance, and industrial work.
Software-enabled CNC job shop turning around custom metal parts in 4 days
Robotics-as-a-service for American manufacturers
Off-road autonomy stack for defense ground vehicles and heavy industrial trucks
American humanoid robots for defense and industry
Software-orchestrated, fully automated apparel factories built in America.
Modular, repairable, upgradable laptops championing right-to-repair.
AI-native autonomous metal 3D printing factories
Pulsed-power fusion driver, today selling neutrons to defense
Vertically integrated missile company built on scalable liquid propulsion
Industrial cybersecurity XDR for factories, refineries, and critical infrastructure.
Building the last factory — machines that make machines
AI-powered autonomous factories for aerospace and defense precision parts.
An AI-native operating system for American manufacturing.
D-He3 fusion with direct electricity capture, targeting 2028 first power
Hypersonic aircraft for the US military and beyond
US-made plug-and-play parts ecosystem for building robots
Science Fiction as a Service — the company behind Deep Tech Week.
Robot-printed homes for Earth and the Moon.
Battery-integrated home appliances — induction first, the rest of the kitchen next.
In-space mobility for payloads — the fast lane to any orbit.
Personal electric vehicles for a post-car urban future.
The microfactory in a box — local manufacturing for schools, retailers, and communities.
All-electric eVTOL air taxi pioneer building production aircraft in California
Mega-class satellite buses for defense and beyond
Thesis-driven early-stage fund investing in emerging technologies.
Bringing Mining Back to America — ion-exchange tech for critical mineral recovery from mining waste.
Factory-built 20 MWe microreactors, deployed in 24 months
All-electric, autonomy-ready bulldozers for American construction.
AI-guided robotic sheet metal forming for elastic factories
Vertically integrated American manufacturer of unmanned and precision-strike systems.
North America's largest custom hydraulic press builder
Rebuilding the American magnesium metal supply base.
Software-first, vertically integrated critical minerals company for energy, AI, and defense
Autonomous AI-native contract manufacturer for mission-critical hardware
Autonomous cyber systems for the U.S. Government, DoD, and Fortune 500
Robotic stone carving factories reviving classical architecture at modern cost.
American-made attritable FPV drones, built at wartime scale.
Venture firm building and backing companies for American renewal.
Unified industrial data stack for hardware teams
Mass-producible satellite ground stations, deployed in days not months
AI-powered, automated metals factories supplying American manufacturers with cut-to-size aluminum at software speed.
Advanced fission powerhouses for AI-era baseload
Industry school for advanced manufacturing — closing the technical-trades skills gap.
Software-driven, on-demand sheet metal fabrication for American hardware engineers.
10x denser, 1/10th-cost lithium-ion batteries — built in Miami
Operating system for the modern enterprise and the warfighter
Reborn American smartwatch — direct-to-consumer hardware done deliberately small.
Unified command-and-control platform for unmanned systems across domains.
Autonomous underground robotic delivery — hyperlogistics for the modern city.
Daily-imaged Earth from a US-built satellite constellation
Unmanned wave-skimming cargo seagliders for contested logistics
Network-state startup building a new American frontier city.
Plastic-free, medical-grade stainless steel coffee makers, designed and built in Austin.
Maker-accessible industrial machine tools — radically cheaper EDM for American shops.
Mass-produced portable nuclear microreactors to replace diesel generators.
Clean, scalable metalmaking — on-site rare-earth production anywhere on Earth.
Cloud-seeding drones to industrialize precipitation and end water scarcity.
Robotic foundry for aerospace and defense investment castings
Building frontier logistics with heavy lift
Sunlight on demand — a satellite constellation that sells daylight after dark.
All-electric seagliders — wing-in-ground-effect craft for fast coastal transport and maritime defense.
3D-printed rockets, now under Eric Schmidt
AI-powered software-defined sheet metal factory
Founder-led communications advisory for tech and hard-tech founders.
AI-enabled predictive logistics for contested operations
Wind- and solar-powered autonomous USVs for ocean-scale defense, surveillance, and survey.
Autonomous surface vessels at scale for U.S. Navy and allied maritime missions.
On-demand laser cutting and sheet metal fabrication for the long tail of American hardware
Software-defined wire harness manufacturing for aerospace and defense
AI pilot 'Hivemind' and the V-BAT VTOL drone — autonomous, GPS- and comms-denied flight at scale.
America's largest drone manufacturer — autonomous quadcopters for defense, public safety, and infrastructure.
A universal flight operating system to make piloting safe and simple
American-made low-cost customizable electric pickup
AI-driven space domain awareness for safer orbits
Robotic micro-factories that 3D-print rockets and pressure vessels end-to-end.
Operator of Vogtle 3 & 4 — the first new US reactors in a generation
AI-designed analog, RF and mixed-signal chips
Reactor-agnostic TRISO fuel manufacturing at industrial scale
100% reusable rockets, built in Washington
America's turbine company — gigawatts to the grid.
Solar + air + water in, pipeline-grade synthetic natural gas out
Building robots with truly dextrous, generalizable manipulation.
Vertically integrated factory-built starter homes
Capital + operating partner for the New Industrial movement
Design-once, build-many fleet deployment of large US reactors
Live-in incubator housing early-stage founders in San Francisco mansions.
Visual positioning for drones that can't trust GPS.
AI-powered CAM that plans, estimates, and programs CNC parts automatically.
The frontline operations platform for industry
Low-cost autonomous underwater and surface vehicles for the world's most strategic and underserved domain.
America's independent rocket propulsion company
High-temperature gas reactors, one standardized design, built thousands of times.
Veteran-staffed data labeling and red-teaming platform for autonomous defense systems.
In-space pharmaceutical manufacturing and hypersonic reentry capsules.
Merchant-bank-inspired firm investing in physical-world tech and strategic sovereign assets.
Rotating detonation rocket engines for hypersonic flight
Two-seat personal eVTOLs for rural property owners
Industrial-scale digital metal additive manufacturing
Turning oilfield wastewater into the world's cheapest fuels.
American motors for drones and robots
Quiet, clean electric propulsion for the next generation of flight
Early-stage manufacturing venture from Em Moshouris.
Reviving the World's Fair to inspire a new industrial era
3D-printed solid rocket motors at speed and scale
World's largest autonomous drone delivery network.
A modern CAD platform built from a new kernel up.