Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: United States
• Founded: 2020
• Website: https://www.hadrian.co/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

Hadrian builds software-defined factories for aerospace and defence manufacturing. Its production network combines automation, robotics, CNC machining and manufacturing software to produce precision parts for rockets, satellites, aircraft and other high-reliability hardware.

Market context

Hadrian matters as robotics-adjacent manufacturing infrastructure, using automation and factory software to compress lead times for critical hardware. Hadrian is not a robot OEM; it is an automated manufacturing supplier for advanced hardware supply chains.

Facts

• Website: https://www.hadrian.co/
• HQ: Torrance, United States
• Founded: 2020
• Segment: Industrial
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-07-17 - Series C - $260M - Hadrian secures $260M Series C to expand AI-powered factory footprint - source: prnewswire.com

Investors

• Founders Fund - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-17
• Lux Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-07-17

AI-enabled defence manufacturing company

Hadrian operates AI-enabled advanced manufacturing factories for aerospace, defence and industrial hardware production.

• Target environment: Defence manufacturing, aerospace machining, precision parts production, shipbuilding supply chains and automated factory environments.
• Deployment model: Factory-based manufacturing services using Opus software, automation and trained operators to produce precision hardware.
• Customer context: Defence primes, aerospace companies, government programs, industrial hardware buyers and maritime industrial-base customers.
• Workflow context: Precision machining, inspection, factory automation, defence parts production, legacy drawing interpretation and manufacturing throughput improvement.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially scaling manufacturing company with multiple factories and major expansion activity in aerospace and defence production.
• Market position: Advanced manufacturing infrastructure company using factory automation and AI software to expand high-mix industrial production capacity.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on defence qualification, part certification, customer trust, factory utilization, supply-chain security and workforce training.
• Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes automated manufacturing, defence industrial-base modernization, precision machining and AI factory software.
• Source confidence: high

Events

• 2026-01-29 - Deployment - Hadrian opens Factory 3 AI-powered manufacturing facility in Mesa, AZ - Official ribbon cutting for 290,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility focused on next-generation aerospace and…
• 2026-01-15 - Partnership - Hadrian collaborates with Lockheed Martin on advanced manufacturing cells - Lockheed Martin and Hadrian deploy scalable automated CNC and inspection cells to increase production output.
• 2025-07-17 - Funding - Hadrian secures $260M Series C to expand AI-powered factory footprint - Hadrian secures $260M Series C to expand AI-powered factory footprint.

Operations / Deployments

• 2026-01-29 - Deployment - Hadrian opens Factory 3 AI-powered manufacturing facility in Mesa, AZ - Official ribbon cutting for 290,000-square-foot advanced manufacturing facility focused on next-generation aerospace and…
• 2025-07-17 - Funding - Hadrian secures $260M Series C to expand AI-powered factory footprint - Hadrian secures $260M Series C to expand AI-powered factory footprint.

Team

• Chris Power - Founder and CEO - Founder row connects Hadrian's automated factory model to robotics-adjacent industrial production, defence manufacturing and machine-economy infrastructure.

Relationships

• partner - Hadrian has a public partnership relationship with Lockheed Martin.

Context tags

• Factories - Customer Environment
• Autonomous precision machining - Peer Group
• Autonomous machining production - Workflow
• Autonomous machining layer - Stack Layer