NOA Salon Vol. 3 - Venture into Defense
Dual-Use Defense, Material Science and Opportunity Zones
📍 Location: TBD
📅 Date: 7/16/25
🎙 Format: Intimate Fireside Chat and Dinner
🥂 Dry Gathering
🪑 NOA Members and By Invitation Only for Founders, Funds, and LPs
Overview
As capital shifts toward resilience and relevance, a new kind of conversation is needed—one rooted not in headlines or hype, but in lived experience, professional candor, and shared questions. NOA’s July salon invites a trusted circle of founders, GPs, LPs, and stewards of industrial development to explore the future of deep science innovation, not through panels or pitches, but through insights and people.
This gathering explores where capital is flowing and why. From dual-use technologies in aerospace, autonomy, and energy, to the evolving role of Opportunity Zones in industrial reinvestment, the evening offers a space to reflect on what’s working, what’s not, and where we go next. The focus is not on performance, but on proximity: between operators and investors, between sectors and systems, between ambition and constraint.
Who It’s For
Founders navigating procurement, partnership, and scale in dual-use or frontier sectors
GPs and LPs are actively recalibrating capital allocations toward sovereign-aligned opportunities.
Family offices and real asset funds engaging in industrial Opportunity Zone investment
Civic stewards and advisors involved in long-horizon infrastructure and innovation strategy
This is a closed-door session with a curated group of allocators, asset managers, operators, and emerging fund leaders.
If you are allocating into hard assets or structuring new access pathways to them, this room is where long-term conviction meets peer-level clarity.
We're not just observing the shift. We're shaping how it's capitalized.