Home - Hadrian Raises $1.37B Series D, Valuing Automated Defense Manufacturer at $7.87B Defense Hadrian Raises $1.37B Series D, Valuing Automated Defense Manufacturer at $7.87B Paloma Duran 1 week ago 0 Automated manufacturer Hadrian has raised $1.37 billion in Series D equity financing at a $7.87 billion valuation, roughly five times where the company stood a year ago. The round is aimed at expanding Hadrian’s factory network and pushing the company beyond precision parts toward delivering complete mission-critical systems for munitions, shipbuilding, and autonomous systems programs. From Precision Parts to Full Systems The Series D was co-led by WCM Investment Management , Washington Harbour Partners , Valor Equity Partners , 137 Ventures , and Baillie Gifford , with JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group joining as anchor co-lead through its Security and Resiliency Initiative. Other participants included 1789 Capital , Morgan Stanley Wealth Management , funds managed by Apollo , accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates , CapitalG , Andreessen Horowitz , Founders Fund , Lux Capital , Altimeter , and Construct Capital , alongside existing investors. Founder and CEO Chris Power framed the raise around industrial urgency rather than product roadmap detail. “Production is now the frontline of deterrence,” said Chris Power, founder and CEO of Hadrian. “America’s ability to lead will depend on whether we can build, train, and scale faster. This financing allows Hadrian to accelerate building the Factories of the Future, expand into new mission-critical production capabilities, and invest in the technicians and engineers who will rebuild America’s industrial base.” Hadrian Raises $1.37B Series D. Image via Hadrian. Hadrian operates under a “Factories-as-a-Service” model, pairing its proprietary Opus software platform with robotics and skilled technicians inside highly automated facilities. The company says the new capital will fund additional factories, expanded R&D, and new production lines, with the stated goal of shipping full mission-critical systems rather than individual components. Rapid Footprint Growth Since Series C A year of momentum has followed Hadrian’s Series C funding round. New sites went live in Mesa, Arizona and Muscle Shoals, Alabama, pushing Hadrian’s combined plant space to nearly 3 million square feet spread across four locations, with each addition chosen for its strategic role in rebuilding domestic industrial capacity. Looking ahead, the company intends to break ground on further sites while branching into fresh product categories, munitions and autonomous systems among them, as it works to become the manufacturing backbone the nation’s highest-priority defense programs depend on. This expansion is reshaping how American factories are staffed, too.