A BVVC BuildCo™ is a rare venture creation initiative born directly from BVVC, The Fund. Each BuildCo is conceived to close a critical conceptual gap in the world, where markets are vast, technologies are mission-essential, and founders are forged. These companies are built from the inside out, leveraging BVVC’s entrepreneurial DNA, deep operational expertise, and our network of trusted NatSec insider investors to accelerate from inception to hyper-scale.
We partner with obsessed founders and world-class engineers, mechanical, industrial, and software, to build venture-scalable businesses in national security’s largest and most consequential markets. With direct stewardship from BVVC Founder and Managing Partner Joe Musselman, each BuildCo receives plug-and-play formation infrastructure, early advisor frameworks, rapid knowledge transfer, and tactical execution support.
This approach ensures that every BVVC BuildCo operates with unfair advantages, moving faster, smarter, and with greater precision, generating significant True Alpha for the world. It’s how we continue to act as a Fund in the Field™: founding, funding, and fortifying the companies that will define the next industrial era of National Security.
The West’s factories are frozen in time. They have been in elegant decay for nearly a century. They are optimized for fixed SKUs, predictable contracts, and slow bureaucratic rhythms. They were built for efficiency, not adaptability and agility, and for cost, not continuity. When demand surges, they seize. When the global supply chain fractures, they wait. Production lines rely on aging machines, foreign tooling, and tribal knowledge that can’t be versioned or scaled. The result is a brittle industrial base. It cannot reconfigure at tempo, cannot replicate itself abroad, and cannot outlast disruption. The problem isn’t even innovation. It’s execution. The West can design anything, but it can no longer build fast enough to matter.
UNION was not inherited. It was engineered for this moment, when the world stopped trusting that production would just ‘show up.’ From the first press install to the last software commit, UNION has been designed to move at a velocity that industry forgot was possible. Our FACTORY-01 in Texas proved it: stood up from keys to production in under seven months, a record in modern heavy manufacturing. That speed is embedded in all UNION does. Contracting, regulatory, construction, ideation, and more are all protected by UNION’s fourth moat: velocity.
At its center lies a doctrine: Factories-as-a-Stockpile, and its logical extension, Mutually Assured Production™ (MAP). UNION believes that deterrence is born from the certainty of industrial response. A network of UNION factories means that the West can never again be cornered by scarcity. Each facility is sovereign, auditable, and instantly surgeable, a self-healing lattice of manufacturing that guarantees resilience through redundancy.
Driving this revolution is a team built like no other: ‘young bloods and greybeards,’ from veterans of Tesla, SpaceX, Anduril, to General Dynamics and the American industrial heartland. Engineers, operators, and builders at UNION are united by a shared mission to restore the West’s capacity to build, forge, fight, and win. Their collaboration fuses the instincts of those who have built factories in parking lots with the vision of those coding the next industrial brain.
That brain is UNION’s software stack: Fabric™ and Faction™ first-of-their-kind systems in industrial history capable of treating UNION’s factories as a neural network. Faction™ orchestrates machines, safety, and precision in real time; Fabric™ renders robotics declarative, version-controlled, and self-correcting across every site. Together they create a manufacturing intelligence that automates and learns from each cell. For the first time in history, national security industrial output will evolve at the speed of software.
More Thoughts From the Team at BVVC:
“UNION is our biggest bet. The largest, loudest, and most deliberate act of conviction BVVC has ever made. We have backed autonomy, intelligence, and infrastructure, but UNION is different. UNION is industrial sovereignty made real. It is the hard edge of a soft world. The company that will decide whether the West can still build the things that guarantee its freedom.
We live in a moment defined by paralysis: supply chains built on hope, factories designed for unending peace, and boardrooms pretending speed doesn’t matter. Every great power competition in history ends the same way: one side runs out of the ability to make. UNION exists so that the West never reaches that moment again.
When a UNION line spins up, the signal is unmistakable: production is back on our side. These are factories that learn faster than they wear down, that replicate across continents, that convert software into steel and time into power. The company’s first facility—stood up in Texas from keys to production in under seven months—proved what we believed all along: the West has not lost its edge; it has only forgotten how to use it.
What makes UNION unstoppable goes beyond machinery. It’s the people. A mix of young bloods and greybeards (hand-sourced by BVVC), of Tesla and SpaceX engineers, Anduril alumni, Navy veterans, and machine whisperers who have built lines in parking lots and welded under floodlights. They are an improbable coalition driven by a shared conclusion: that this is the mission of our lives.
UNION’s software stack is far from incremental innovation. It is manufacturing intelligence capable of governing a factory like code: declarative, auditable, self-learning, sovereign. It represents a philosophical break from everything that came before it. For centuries, factories have been physical; UNION is making them cognitive.
The result is velocity, which really is the fifth moat. The ability to go from concept to output faster than politics, faster than procurement, faster than fear. Velocity compounds. It is the moat competitors cannot cross and the signal adversaries cannot ignore.
BVVC is bullish on UNION because it is a correction. It closes the gap between intention and capacity, between rhetoric and readiness. We are past the point of needing another contractor. What the West needs is an industrial deterrent: a network of sovereign factories that make coercion, dependence, and decline impossible.
UNION is that deterrent. It is the new arsenal, the new standard, and the new measure of resolve. Our adversaries should pray these factories never come online at once.
We invested in and built UNION because we are fed up with defense theater. We are interested in building the infrastructure of freedom. And if the world we inherit demands that we out-produce those who would undermine it, we are certain that UNION is the only company truly prepared to answer that call.
Why are we so certain? We looked for others, could not find any, and finally resolved to build UNION to defend the West itself.”
“America should never encounter a fair fight. We have this decade to win the next century of deterrence; we must forge steel in America once again. Victory in the next 100 years will belong to a new generation of leadership: fearless builders, gritty engineers, thinkers and doers, the patriotic, who focus on problem sets that manufacture in the physical world. UNION will produce peace through strength. The safety of Americans will be won by production, not false promises or panel discussions. UNION will lead the way.”
– Joe Musselman, Co-Founder, Chairman, & Partnerships
“It is of my deepest concern, and it’s what I think about every night before I go to bed that my children or my grandchildren would fight against an adversary that was not afraid of them. And so I believe with my entire heart that what we’re doing in this company, and what UNION is setting out to do, is critical for this nation.”
– Garrett Unclebach, CEO, UNION