Hardware shouldn't be this hard.

Between us, we spent two careers building and moving physical products, and the pattern never changed. The engineering was solvable. The demand was real. The thing that slowed everything down was operations: finding the right manufacturer, getting a straight quote, trusting someone to ship lithium cells across the country. Every good partner we ever found, we found by accident, through a friend, a former colleague, a lucky introduction.

That is a terrible way to build an industry. And building an industry is exactly what this country needs to do right now.

The hard part of hardware was never the idea. It is the supply chain behind it: fragmented, opaque, relationship-driven, and impossible to scale without an army of operators and a decade of relationships. So the best hardware companies either raise enormous rounds to build that muscle in-house, or they move slowly and hope. Most move slowly and hope.

Bloom is the network we needed and never had. We connect the companies building the future of drones, robotics, and electric mobility to a vetted network of American manufacturers, logistics partners, and service providers, and we run the operational work alongside them: match, bid, book, and manage, in one place. Membership is the only fixed cost. Everything else flexes with the business.

We started narrow and deep, in the three industries we know best, because trust is earned in specifics, not slogans. And we built it in Detroit on purpose. The talent, the machines, and the will to make things here never left. They were waiting for the demand to come back. It is coming back.

Our bet is simple: if we make it as easy to source, build, and ship hardware in America as it is to spin up a server, more people will build here. The marketplace is the moat. The intelligence we layer on top, the systems and agents that will eventually match and book on their own, is the leverage. But it starts with people, partners, and trust.

If you are building something physical and hard, we would like to help you build it.

Justin Kosmides and Chris Nolte

Founders of Bloom

Detroit, MI