​A new age of building has begun. Factories are lighting back up, launch pads are roaring again, and laboratories are filling with the hum of invention. Across America and its allies, a generation of founders is rediscovering something we once knew by instinct: progress is physical. This is the New Industrial Renaissance. It is not nostalgia for the past. It is a renewal of capability, a return to the deep satisfaction of building things that endure. The work is hard, but it matters. For too long, capital was drawn to the weightless. The playbooks of the last era rewarded speed over substance and scale over strength. That era produced extraordinary companies and enduring lessons, but its tools cannot solve the challenges that now define our time. Energy systems, defense architectures, critical manufacturing, and orbital infrastructure cannot be debugged from a laptop. They must be engineered, tested, and refined in the real world. IceNine exists for that work. We invest in the founders building the foundations of a stronger future. They are scientists, engineers, and operators who blur the lines between the digital and the physical. Their companies are not defined by valuation curves, but by what they make possible: new materials, new propulsion systems, new energy sources, new deterrence. The New Industrial Renaissance needs capital with conviction and fluency in the hard sciences. It needs investors who understand that prototypes take time, that scaling production is strategy, and that progress moves in cycles of discovery, failure, and persistence. These founders are not looking for shortcuts. They are looking for partners who can stay the course and amplify their effort. We believe venture capital must evolve from chasing markets to cultivating capability. The next decade will be defined not by the number of apps created, but by the systems rebuilt. The investors who shape it will be those who pair curiosity with competence, and conviction with care. The Renaissance has already begun. It is unfolding in machine shops, clean rooms, wind tunnels, and deserts. It is being written by founders who are restoring our ability to make, launch, and manufacture at the frontier of possibility. Our mission is simple. Fund them. Support them. Stand with them as they rebuild the physical backbone of progress. The New Industrial Renaissance is not a slogan. It is a responsibility. And IceNine was built to carry it.