Autonomous manufacturing for aerospace and defense.
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Mar 30, 2026
Hadrian is a private defense-and-space manufacturing company building autonomous, AI-powered factories for precision components, assemblies, and eventually complete products. Its stated mission is to reindustrialize U.S. production by combining process engineering, AI, machine learning, robotics, and a rapidly trained workforce. The company sells physical manufacturing capacity and factory systems rather than standalone software.
Primary product
Opus, Hadrian’s full-stack AI-powered Factory Autonomy platform, which interprets legacy designs and automates manufacturing, inspection, factory workflows, and technician training. Hadrian also operates Atlas, a supply-chain/procurement platform acquired through Datum Source.
Founded
2020
Headquarters
Los Angeles metropolitan area; operational headquarters/factory address publicly listed in Torrance, California (19501 S Western Ave). Sources differ between 2020 and 2021 for founding year.
Team size
300–400
Industry
Defense and space manufacturing
Sub-industry
AI-enabled advanced manufacturing, factory automation, precision CNC machining, robotics, and defense-industrial infrastructure
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage private / venture-backed growth company
Total raised
$608M
Latest round
Expanded capital / Series C extension · Jan 2026
Latest amount
$131.3M
Expanded capital / Series C extension
Jan 2026 · T. Rowe Price Associates
Jan 2026 · T. Rowe Price Associates (led accounts advised by T. Rowe Price) [PR Newswire](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hadrian-partners-with-t-rowe-price-to-accelerate-the-reindustrialization-of-america-302657125.html)
Jul 2025 · Founders Fund and Lux Capital [Crunchbase News](https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-funding-rounds-manufacturing-ai-publishing-hadrian)
Series C / factory expansion financing
Jul 2025 · Founders Fund and Lux Capital; Morgan Stanley arranged the factory-expansion loan facility
Feb 2024
Mar 2022 · Lux Capital, a16z, and others [Tracxn summary](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/hadrian/__fvM3NdeRAOM8tlZVrtAjuWTZC7jAoOoHf4OePfeiqE8/funding-and-investors)
Mar 2022 · Lux Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
Jan 2022 · (reported) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/hadrian/__fvM3NdeRAOM8tlZVrtAjuWTZC7jAoOoHf4OePfeiqE8/funding-and-investors)
Apr 2021 · Lux Capital and Founders Fund (reported) [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/hadrian/__fvM3NdeRAOM8tlZVrtAjuWTZC7jAoOoHf4OePfeiqE8/funding-and-investors)
Apr 2021 · Founders Fund and Lux Capital
Leadership
Founder, CEO & CPO
Vice President, Federal
Chief Financial Officer
Ashley Boizelle
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Caleb Sima
Chief Security Officer
Wallis Laughrey
Vice President, Munitions
Founders
Maurice Clin [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/maurice-clin)
Co‑Founder & CFO
Olivier Beg [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/olivierbeg)
Co‑Founder & Chief Hacking Officer
Co‑Founder (previously served as CEO)
Tijl van Vliet [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/tlvnvlt)
Co‑Founder & CTO
Investors
Mission-driven, highly execution-oriented, and focused on rebuilding U.S. industrial capacity. Public recruiting material emphasizes hard technical problems, speed, ownership, software-meets-factory work, and collaboration among machinists, operators, manufacturing engineers, robotics engineers, and software engineers. The company appears fast-growing and demanding; public sources do not provide a formal employee-satisfaction or retention dataset.
Compensation
Public postings show role-specific ranges, including approximately $120,000–$200,000 for a foundational software/data-platform role and $200,000–$270,000 for a lead full-stack engineering role. Benefits and ranges vary by role, location, and eligibility; no company-wide compensation bands were found.
Benefits
Pricing
Not publicly posted. The apparent commercial model is quote- and contract-based pricing for manufactured parts, dedicated cells, and factory deployments; no self-serve software pricing was found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$1M–$10M annual range according to the company’s LinkedIn profile; independent reporting stated approximately $3M revenue in 2023 and described later revenue as undisclosed. Treat this as a low-confidence estimate.
Hadrian closed its acquisition of Datum Source, a procurement SaaS platform. The transaction was announced August 14, 2024; terms were not disclosed. Hadrian said it would retain the Datum Source brand and integrate its design-for-manufacturing and quality-automation capabilities.
SourceHadrian’s rapid factory expansion is capital-intensive. The January 2026 financing valued the company at $1.6 billion, while the amount raised was not disclosed by the company; the approximately $131.3 million figure is reported by third-party financing databases and should be treated as an estimate.
SourceFactory 4 in Cherokee, Alabama opened as part of a $2.4 billion public-private submarine manufacturing plan. Full-rate production is expected to take 18–24 months and requires qualification, including SUBSAFE-related compliance, creating execution and certification risk.
SourceHadrian / PR Newswire · Jun 2026
Hadrian announced Caleb Sima as Chief Security Officer and Wallis Laughrey as Vice President of Munitions while reporting four facilities totaling nearly 3 million square feet.
U.S. Navy · Mar 2026
The Navy and Hadrian opened the 2.2-million-square-foot Factory 4 in Cherokee, Alabama, backed by $900 million in Navy funding and $1.5 billion in private capital, to produce submarine components.
Los Angeles Times · Jan 2026
Business coverage reporting Hadrian secured new capital led by T. Rowe Price that valued the company at $1.6 billion and supports industrial expansion (article available on LA Times business section) [LA Times](https://www.latimes.com/b2b/space-tech/story/2026-01-28/hadrian-manufacturing-1-6b-valuation).
The Robot Report · Jan 2026
Hadrian announced expanded capital that brought its valuation to $1.6 billion and will accelerate factory expansion and its automated manufacturing roadmap; the round was led by T. Rowe Price with participation from major investors [The Robot Report](https://www.therobotreport.com/hadrian-brings-in-additional-funding-bringing-its-valuation-to-1-6b).
VoxelMatters · Jan 2026
Coverage of Hadrian's new Hadrian Additive division to provide scalable, production‑ready additive manufacturing capacity for the U.S. defense industrial base and allied partners, expanding the Opus factory platform [VoxelMatters](https://www.voxelmatters.com/hadrian-launches-additive-manufacturing-division-to-expand-u-s-defense-production-capacity).
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