Operating companies

Distinct businesses, one operating discipline.

NuvoNexus builds and operates deep-tech businesses in defense materials, defense technology transition, and industrial asset recovery. Each company below has its own technical leadership, customer base, and contracting infrastructure. NuvoNexus provides the holding-company spine: capital allocation, executive oversight, and the operating discipline that turns funded R&D into transitioned product.

Operating & affiliated4 active
Prior transitions2 deep-tech
Leadership IP125+ patents
Headquarters · Operating centerCocoa Beach, FL · Fairlawn, VA
01 Defense materials

MacroVation, LLC

Defense materials R&D and prototype systems. Four funded programs across USMC, NAVSEA, and ONR — from non-lethal stand-off immobilization systems to additive composite tooling and warfighter recovery materials.

02 Defense technology transition

Helicon Defense

Helicon Defense helps selected allied defense technologies move from operational validation toward trusted U.S./allied evaluation, manufacturing, acquisition, and sustainment pathways. The work centers on moving allied technology into U.S. capability — with IP protection, trusted supply-chain redesign, demonstration readiness, manufacturing-localization planning, and originator value return.

Helicon Defense operates as a NuvoNexus, LLC d/b/a. Additional detail is available at helicondefense.com.

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IP protection
Structuring intellectual-property protection appropriate to a U.S./allied transition pathway.
Trusted supply chain
Redesigning supply chains to meet trusted-source requirements for U.S. defense acquisition.
Demonstration readiness
Preparing technology for evaluation by U.S. and allied defense stakeholders.
Manufacturing localization
Planning the localization of manufacturing to support U.S. capability and sustainment.
Originator value return
Structuring pathways so originating teams and technologies retain value through the transition.
03 Industrial asset recovery

Phoenix Asset Recovery (PARREF)

Phoenix Asset Recovery is NuvoNexus’s industrial equipment recovery and resale business. It turns surplus deep-tech and process-industry assets into deployable capability for the next operator, based in Radford, VA.

Industrial asset recovery Active

Phoenix Asset Recovery

Industrial equipment recovery and resale — turning surplus deep-tech and process-industry assets into deployable capability for the next operator. Radford, VA.

04 Deep-tech investing

Phase Shift Ventures

David Sherrer is an advisor to Phase Shift Ventures, a deep-tech venture fund focused on the Florida Space Coast and adjacent technology corridors.

Deep-tech investing Advisory

Phase Shift Ventures

David Sherrer is an advisor to Phase Shift Ventures, a deep-tech venture fund focused on the Florida Space Coast and adjacent technology corridors.