Hadrian, the factory builder and defense manufacturer, raised $1.37 billion in venture capital and is now valued just shy of $8 billion, post-money. American reindustrialization is catching on beyond niche national-security and investor communities. What they’re saying: “We were early,” chief executive Chris Power tells Axios. “This has been a five-year slog, and only 18 months ago everyone went, ‘Oh, God, manufacturing is super important, and we really need to create new American manufacturing jobs fast.'” Hadrian pumps out precision parts and provides factories-as-a-service for aerospace and defense markets. It employs skilled human workers and augments that workforce with artificial intelligence, automation and robotics. (Its proprietary software is known as Opus.) Hadrian today has nearly 3 million square-feet across four sites, and a new headquarters in Los Angeles and an engineering and research-and-development hub in San Francisco are being planned.

Full report : Defense tech company Hadrian raised a $1.37 billion Series D at an $8 billion valuation to expand its factories and Opus software platform, after a $260 million Series C in 2025.