Brett Bivens

I am the CEO of Production Capital, where we partner with owners of critical industrial and physical service businesses by investing long-term capital in people and technology to accelerate their growth.

I am also an active angel investor in companies rebuilding the physical economy in the West. This includes companies like Isembard, Alpha Machines, Nevoya, Orasio, Brineworks, and several others. 

Previously, I worked at Prima Materia, a European investment company that builds, grows, and owns companies for the long term, and TechNexus, a venture firm focused on industrial transformation.

Essays + Analysis 

The Rise of Production Capital (2025)
Signal Hunters (2025)
The Urgent Buyer Era (2025)
Designing for Industrial Scale (2024)
Towards Productive Capital (2023)
The Business Equation (2020)
The Merits of Bottoms Up Investing (2020)
Spotify: The Ambient Media Company (2019)

Category Research

While leading research at July Fund, I published several analyses on categories where emerging technology, economic models, macro trends, and talent movement lead to outsized value creation and capture opportunities. A few selections:

Benchmarking the Physical World
"Plumbers" of Reindustrialization
Mapping the Nuclear Energy Supply Chain
European Defense
Supply Chain "Virtual Integration"
The Robotics Smiling Curve
European Public Safety Primes