A New Solution for Persistent Problems
Too often, the technology developed and designed in the United States is manufactured abroad, creating critical national security vulnerabilities and depriving communities across the country of the economic benefits of scaling industry, achieving global competitiveness, and turning innovations into technologies. Our mission is to reverse this trend by ensuring that critical technology companies start, grow, and remain in the United States.
When enabling and emerging technologies are developed here but produced elsewhere, we sacrifice both strategic autonomy and domestic prosperity. When companies not only innovate in America, but build, scale, and thrive here, we create resilient supply chains, competitive industries, and vibrant communities.
Our Approach
We Identify and Overcome Structural Barriers and Binding Constraints
We pinpoint technologies most critical to national and regional competitiveness, security, resilience, and prosperity.
We break down the capital, talent, technology, and governance barriers preventing regions from converting invention into industrial strength.
We identify clusters and networks across the country that can mature critical emerging and enabling technologies to commercial scale.
We enable public, philanthropic, and private capital to work in concert to drive technology advancement.
We counter the geographic over-concentration of capital by fostering collaboration between investors and innovation hubs across the country.
And we build strong coalitions within and across technology clusters to maximize impact.
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Meet the Team
We bring decades of expertise driving competitiveness, security, and resilience through innovation and technology. We have designed and executed comprehensive investments that accelerate the commercialization of critical technology, drive transformational growth in regional economies, and build strong, enduring coalitions. And we are dedicated to overcoming barriers to producing and delivering these technologies in the United States and with our partners and allies.
Cofounder
Cristina Killingsworth
Cristina served as Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development in the Biden-Harris administration, leading the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) and managing over $8 billion in investments to strengthen U.S. industry and competitiveness. Cristina has also served as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, Vice President at WestExec Advisors, and held positions at the White House National Security Council and the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Cofounder
Eric Smith
Eric was the founding director of the Tech Hubs program, a critical, $10 billion component of the CHIPS and Science Act that accelerated technology advancement and production to strengthen competitiveness and national security. He served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration. His experience spans leading digital transformation at NASA’s SBIR/STTR Program, managing and evaluating telecom patents, and driving growth in fintech and software startups.