Search Funds Meet Hardtech Supply Chains

June 25, 2025
by a searcher from University of Missouri - Columbia in Chicago, IL, USA
The Midwestern industrial base is converging with advanced manufacturing, defense, climate infrastructure, and quantum. Early-stage hardware founders often struggle sourcing complex electrical components — while industrial distributors are sitting on vendor relationships that could be monetized far beyond traditional MRO.
If you’re in the Midwest and are working on hybrid industrial + tech adjacency plays, let’s compare notes
from Parsons School of Design in Cuxhaven, Germany
from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Portland, OR, USA