founders in connecticut
connecticut founders work around insurance and finance in hartford and along the coast, and around defense manufacturing that builds submarines, jet engines and helicopters. reagent defense fits the submarine and aerospace work, reagent matter the precision parts behind it, and reagent capital the finance side.
talk to reagentconnecticut at a glance
- new business applications
- 56,215
- filed in the twelve months to september 2026, up 17.5% on the twelve months before.
- likely employers
- 15,198
- applications the Census Bureau flags as likely to hire, over the same twelve months.
- economy
- $382.6 billion
- gross domestic product in 2025, up 5.6% on the year before in current dollars.
- population
- 3.7 million
- residents in 2025, about $103,727 of output per person.
- manufacturing jobs
- 157,700
- people employed in manufacturing, september 2026.
our companies
- reagent defense technology that protects.
- reagent matter materials and physical products.
- reagent capital funding the earliest stage.
- reagent logistics moving what we make.
- reagent research open science and new architectures.
- 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.