Vannadium Selected for Fuse Ventures Dual-Use Supply Chain Accelerator in Bentonville, Arkansas

Vannadium's Leap™ Platform to Advance Data Integrity and Provenance for Critical Commercial and Defense Supply Chains

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vannadium, the enterprise AI data integrity company behind the Leap™ platform, today announced its selection for the Fuse Ventures dual-use supply chain accelerator cohort in Bentonville, Arkansas. Developed in partnership with the Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, the program brings together breakthrough technologies addressing critical and sensitive supply chains at the intersection of commercial enterprise and defense markets.

Fuse Ventures is a dual-use innovation platform purpose-built for scale-stage startups solving the most pressing supply chain challenges. Arkansas’s unique strengths in contested logistics, rare earth minerals, and aerospace make Bentonville a natural frontier for companies operating at the commercial-defense nexus. The cohort, focused on supply chain, AI, and rare earth minerals, provides direct access to mentors, industry operators, and strategic partners who understand what it takes to build and scale in these environments.

“The caliber of startups that are participating in this accelerator is truly impressive. We are honored to be among them and looking forward to learning from and connecting with our peers in dual-use supply chain, the program mentors, and strategic partners who can help bring Vannadium’s vision to life.”
— Rick Gilchrist, Founder & CEO, Vannadium

For Vannadium, participation in the Fuse cohort accelerates deployment of Leap™ into environments where data integrity and provenance are mission-critical. Leap™ combines blockchain-level data integrity with real-time, on-chain performance, delivering a continuous trust layer for enterprise and government organizations that cannot afford gaps in data sovereignty or auditability.

The Fuse cohort is hands-on and practical, structured around real conversations with founders, operators, and strategic partners. Vannadium joins a focused group of companies building across supply chain, AI, and rare earth minerals, sectors where the stakes of data failure are not measured in downtime, but in national security and economic resilience.

About Vannadium

Vannadium is a trusted data infrastructure company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. Its flagship platform, Leap™, makes the data that AI and automated systems rely on provable, governed, and resilient in real time, powered by the proprietary Diffusion™ Protocol. Leap™ runs as a continuous trust layer with no cloud dependencies and tamper-proof audit trails, keeping critical data verifiable and available even under attack. Vannadium serves organizations in media and entertainment, healthcare, supply chain, and defense and federal markets. Learn more at vannadium.com.

About Fuse Ventures

Fuse Ventures is a dual-use innovation platform for startups scaling across commercial and defense markets. In partnership with the Bentonville Area Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Fuse operates an accelerator program focused on breakthrough technologies in critical and sensitive supply chains, with a particular emphasis on Arkansas’s strengths in contested logistics, rare earth minerals, and aerospace. Learn more at fuseventures.com.