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- Jeff Crusey: General PartnerPast Role: Blacklake, EVP of Technology & Acquisition
The next industrial age won’t be led by pitch decks and platitudes. It will be forged by founders who choose the hard path. Reshaping space, defense, energy, advanced manufacturing, AI, biotech, and the backbone industries that resilience depends on.
IceNine exists because those founders deserve more than capital. Most venture playbooks were
written in the software boom, and they don’t translate to hypersonics, orbital defense, or next-gen manufacturing. We’re operators first. People who have lived the cycle from lab bench to factory floor, from idea to scaled infrastructure. That lived experience lets us help founders accelerate from zero to one with conviction, speed, and clarity.
We don’t hype, we don’t chase consensus, it chases us. We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with rare innovators building the technologies that will define the next industrial age. Fail we may, sail we must.
