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CURRENT INVESTMENTS
Aeron
Defense
Formation date:
November 2025
Sector:
Defense
Location:
United States
Aeron Defense is a new defense group established by Ventus Industrial Partners.
Aeron is dedicated to strengthening America's defense industrial base, and is backed by high profile and growth-oriented investment firms and family offices that specialize in the sector. Aeron Defense’s mission is twofold: to support the US effort to scale the naval shipbuilding supply chain and the broader defense industrial base across key military programs, and to become the employer of choice within the defense sector through its ‘Ownership for All’ workforce model and employee-centric philosophy.
Aeron seeks to build a group of leading manufacturing partners to US defense primes through significant investments in people, facilities and equipment, as well as access to industry-leading core and advisory teams, and both via organic growth and a series of acquisitions.
GTC is a leading manufacturer of mission-critical components for the highest priority programs within the US Navy, Air Force, Army and Space Force.
Founded in 1947 in Reading, Cincinnati, GTC has highly differentiated engineering, machining, fabrication, assembly and integration capabilities across a diverse product portfolio.
GTC is a critical manufacturing partner to a broad range of leading US defense primes and serves the highest priority platforms, including nuclear submarines, aircraft carriers, destroyers, fighter jets, and missile defense systems.
General Tool Company
Investment date:
December 2025
Sector:
Defense
Location:
Cincinnati, OH
Magna Machine is a third generation family-owned manufacturer of critical defense components, specialising in large complex machining and turnkey fully functional assemblies.
Founded together with GTC in 1947 before separating under the second generation of family ownership, Magna became part of GTC once more through its acquisition by Aeron.
The combined GTC business has 550,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities across four sites within a 10-mile radius in northern Cincinnati.
Magna
Machine
Investment date:
December 2025
Sector:
Defense
Location:
Cincinnati, OH