founders in virginia
virginia founders work alongside defense and intelligence agencies in the north, the navy and shipbuilding around hampton roads, and NASA research and launch sites on the coast. reagent defense leads here, with reagent logistics for the ports and reagent research for the labs.
talk to reagentvirginia at a glance
- new business applications
- 151,939
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 14.6% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 39,512
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $807.9 billion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 5.1% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 8.9 million
- residents in 2025, about $90,981 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 232,100
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
- reagent creative the community and the craft.
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.