founders in tennessee
tennessee founders build around music and recording in nashville, auto manufacturing, a national laboratory at oak ridge, and river, rail and air cargo through memphis. reagent logistics fits the memphis freight, reagent creative fits the music, and reagent research fits the lab.
talk to reagenttennessee at a glance
- new business applications
- 115,444
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 18.4% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 31,618
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $586.2 billion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 4.9% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 7.3 million
- residents in 2025, about $80,137 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 354,100
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent creative the community and the craft.
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
also serving
all areas servedsources
- business applications, U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics
- high-propensity business applications, U.S. Census Bureau
- gross domestic product, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
- resident population, U.S. Census Bureau
- manufacturing employees, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
figures retrieved 2026-11-07.