RKKVC backs $50M seed round for U.S. defense startup UNION
Polish VC RKKVC joins oversubscribed $50M seed round for U.S. defense startup UNION Technologies
Polish venture capital firm RKKVC has joined a high-profile, oversubscribed $50 million seed funding round for UNION Technologies, a U.S.-based defense startup aiming to revolutionize ammunition manufacturing with its software-driven “Factories-as-a-Stockpile” model. The funding round marks one of the largest in U.S. defense tech seed history and signals growing European interest in reshaping global security supply chains.
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Led by Bravo Victor Venture Capital (BVVC), a national security-focused venture fund with deep ties to U.S. Special Operations and intelligence communities, the round included strategic co-lead Regulus—a U.S. defense firm focused on logistics and global supply chain security. Other participants include Silent Ventures, Decisive Point, IronGate, Vanderbilt University, prominent U.S. family offices, and Warsaw-based RKKVC.
“We are proud to support UNION as it scales and enters the European defense ecosystem. With multi-million dollar contracts already secured from NATO allies, this is only the beginning,” said Mateusz Bodio, General Partner at RKKVC. The fund plans to support UNION’s future expansion into Central and Eastern Europe, including potential factory deployments in Poland.
UNION Technologies, headquartered in Dallas, was founded by a team of ex-Tesla, General Dynamics, and Anduril engineers, as well as veterans from U.S. Navy SEALS and the Marine Corps. Their goal: reindustrialize America’s defense manufacturing sector with autonomous robotics, precision engineering, and AI-driven control systems. The startup’s flagship mission is to build smart, modular munitions factories capable of rapid scalability in response to national and allied security needs.
Its first production line is already underway in Dallas and will focus on manufacturing high-demand munitions, including 155mm–107, 795, and 120mm calibers. The founders say the current U.S. capacity for defense production is outdated, fragmented, and too slow to adapt to modern geopolitical risks.
Joe Musselman, BVVC’s Managing Partner and co-founder of UNION, underscored the urgency: “Victory in the next 100 years will belong to a new generation of gritty engineers and builders. We must forge steel in America once again. The safety of Americans will be won by production, not panel discussions.”
In parallel, UNION has launched three proprietary technologies:
Faction: A factory operating system for autonomous production.
Fabric: A secure SCADA platform optimized for defense-grade robotics.
Factorial: An intelligence engine for selecting and scaling factory sites.
These platforms serve as the digital backbone of UNION’s goal to build self-reinforcing arsenals—factories that can eventually replicate themselves globally or even extraterrestrially. CEO Will Somerindyke emphasized: “Our factories are smarter and faster—our supply chains resilient. With this Tesla-inspired infrastructure, we become the most lethal deterrent available to the U.S. or its allies.”
Beyond its U.S. ambitions, UNION is working with NATO and non-NATO allies to support allied restockpiling initiatives. It has already secured LOIs with several defense ministries and expects to become a cornerstone in Western security architecture.
For RKKVC, the investment aligns with its broader strategy to back frontier tech startups in security, AI, and robotics across Europe and the U.S. It reflects a long-term bet that Poland and the CEE region can become co-creators—not just recipients—of advanced defense infrastructure.
UNION’s veteran-led team sees this round as a mandate to rebuild Western deterrence with 21st-century tools. With Factory-1 and Line-1 under development, and additional factories on the horizon, the startup aims to meet current stockpile demands and future deterrence challenges through scalable, sovereign supply chains.
