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| 06.08.2026 | Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion as Demand for U.S. Defense Production Explodes | Building modern AI infrastructure requires staggering upfront capital, from massive compute farms to specialized hardware setups that strain budgets before producing a single yield.
The defense sector faces a similar bottleneck as aging leg... |
| 06.08.2026 | Defense-tech startup Hadrian raises $1.37B at nearly $8B valuation to scale AI-powered factories | Hadrian has raised $1.37 billion in fresh funding at a $7.87 billion valuation, more than quadrupling its valuation since January as investors pour record sums into startups rebuilding America’s defense manufacturing base.
The Series D was ... |
| 06.08.2026 | Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion in Series D Funding | Hadrian, a Los Angeles, California-based developer of automated factories for aerospace and defense, raised $1.37 Billion in Series D funding, at $7.87 Billion valuation.
The round was co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour... |
| 31.07.2026 | Fortastra taps Hadrian’s automated factories to speed up satellite production | Spacecraft developer Fortastra is turning to automated manufacturer Hadrian to help it build satellites faster. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) this week laying the groundwork for Hadrian’s precision machining a... |
| 24.06.2026 | Governor Newsom welcomes first public preview of California Science Center’s new Air and Space Center ahead of November opening | Investments into the aerospace and defense sector
Within Governor Newsom’s California Jobs First Economic Blueprint, the first statewide economic development strategy in more than 20 years, aerospace and defense is an “accelerate” sector — ... |
| 14.01.2026 | Biotech Innovator bit.bio Secures $50M to Revolutionize Drug Discovery | bit.bio, a pioneering UK biotech, has secured $50 million in Series C funding, led by M&G Investments. This significant capital infusion will supercharge its human cell programming technology. The company aims to accelerate drug discove... |
| 13.01.2026 | Hadrian Secures $1.6 Billion: Powering U.S. Industrial Future | Hadrian, a leader in automated aerospace and defense manufacturing, just secured $1.6 billion in funding. This capital boosts its valuation to $1.6 billion. T. Rowe Price led the round. The company will expand U.S. factory operations. It ai... |
| 12.01.2026 | bit.bio Raises $50M in Funding | bit.bio, a Cambridge, UK-based biotech company leveraging human cell programming technology, raised $50M in funding.
The round was led by M&G Investments.
The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of, and access... |
| 12.01.2026 | Hadrian Raises Funding at $1.6 Billion Valuation | Hadrian, a Los Angeles, California-based developer of automated factories for aerospace and defense, raised expanded capital at a $1.6 billion valuation.
The round wasled by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. with participation from Altimeter C... |
| 24.07.2025 | Hadrian Secures Major Capital to Revitalize US Defense Manufacturing | Hadrian secures $260 million in Series C funding. Total raised exceeds $500 million. This capital ignites a manufacturing revolution. Hadrian builds AI-driven automated factories for defense and aerospace. New facilities in Mesa, Arizona, a... |
| 24.07.2025 | Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – July 24, 2025 | It’s Thursday, July 24, 2025, and the capital continues to pour in at breakneck speed. Today’s funding news underscores a clear trend: investors are chasing AI-native platforms, defense manufacturing scale-ups, and intelligent tools that re... |
| 18.07.2025 | Top Startup and Tech Funding News Roundup for the Week Ending July 18, 2025 | It’s Friday, July 18, 2025, and we’re back with your top startup and tech funding news roundup for the week ending July 18. The venture engine isn’t slowing down—this week delivered another high-voltage run of funding activity across AI, de... |
| 18.07.2025 | Defense tech startup Hadrian raises $260M to boost U.S. defense manufacturing with AI | For decades, American manufacturing has been on the decline, slowly gutted, outsourced, and left scrambling to keep up with global competitors like China. Now, Hadrian, a California-based defense technology startup, is betting that AI and a... |
| 18.07.2025 | Hadrian Raises $260M in Funding | Hadrian, a Torrance, CA-based defense and aerospace manufacturing startup, raised $260m in funding.
The round was co-led by Founders Fund and Lux Capital, with participation from Altimeter and 1789 Capital as well as existing investors Andr... |
| 17.07.2025 | Hadrian gets $260M in funding to accelerate defense industry manufacturing automation
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Cookies | Defense industry manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation Inc. said today it has closed on a fresh capital infusion of $260 million led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and Lux Capital, bringing its total amount raised to date to more than $5... |
| 13.02.2025 | Overlap Holdings: $33 Million Inaugural Flagship Fund Launched | Overlap Holdings, a VC firm utilizing elements of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, today announced the final close of its first fund, Overlap Holdings Flagship Fund 1 (OHF1). The inaugural fund of $33 million will invest in early-stage (Seed... |
| 16.08.2024 | Hadrian Acquires Datum Source | Hadrian, a Torrance, CA-based advanced manufacturing company, acquired Datum Source, a Newport Beach, California-based provider of a procurement management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform and manufacturing network.
The amount of the d... |
| 21.02.2024 | Hadrian Automation’s CEO wants to defy history and revitalize American industry | Chris Power, founder and CEO of industrial automation startup Hadrian, is a student of history. And in his studies, he observed that history repeats itself: In particular, the cycle of empires ascending and descending, nearly all of them ou... |
| 01.04.2022 | Hadrian Raises $90 Million to Build Second Factory in Torrance | Manufacturing startup Hadrian Automation has raised $90 million to build a second autonomous factory in Torrance, with the goal of getting the new facility up and running by this summer.
Hadrian told CNBC that its planned 100,000-square-foo... |
| 11.01.2022 |
Hadrian Finds $36M for Aerospace Manufacturing
| Hawthorne, California-based Hadrian, which is working on aerospace manufacturing technology, disclosed in a recent regulatory filing that it has raised $36.3M in an ongoing funding. Details of the funding have not yet been announced by the ... |
| 10.01.2022 | Hadrian Raises $36 Million to Make Autonomous Aerospace Factories | Hadrian Automation, a startup developing automated manufacturing plants for the aerospace and defense industries in the Los Angeles area, has raised $36.4 million in new funding, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Had... |
| 15.04.2021 | Hadrian is building the factories of the future for rocket ships and advanced manufacturing | If the eight person team behind the new startup Hadrian has their way, they’ll have transformed the manufacturing industry within the next decade.
At least, that’s the goal for the new San Francisco-based startup, founded only last year, wh... |
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The pandemic quickly changed how the tech w... |
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| - | This Week in 'Raises': Leo DiCaprio Helps Launch a New Sustainable VC Fund | This week in “Raises,” Hadrian Automation lands Silicon Valley backing for a new automated factory in Torrance, while a new sustainable venture capital fund launches with the help of Leo DiCaprio.Venture Capital
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| - | Eplus3D supports Hankook Precision Works in scaling metal additive manufacturing for tire mold production | Eplus3D, a provider of metal additive manufacturing systems, has supported Hankook Precision Works in deploying metal 3D printing for tire sipes production. The collaboration has moved from initial evaluation to stable, repeatable productio... |
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