Hadrian Hits $1.6 Billion Valuation With Growth Capital to Scale AI-Driven U.S. Factories

New updates have been reported about Hadrian.

Hadrian has secured a new round of growth capital led by accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., lifting the company’s valuation to $1.6 billion and positioning it as a key private player in the push for U.S. reindustrialization. The financing, joined by Altimeter Capital, D1 Capital Partners, StepStone Group, 1789 Capital, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, a16z, Construct Capital, and existing backers, will fund rapid expansion of Hadrian’s high-throughput factories serving aerospace, defense, and critical infrastructure customers. Management plans to deploy the capital into new facilities, headcount growth, and acceleration of the company’s AI, software, and automation roadmap that underpins its Factories-as-a-Service (FaaS) model.

Hadrian is building advanced manufacturing sites designed to deliver mission-critical components, assemblies, and full product lines with greater speed and reliability than traditional suppliers, combining AI-driven automation with a workforce that can be trained and scaled quickly. CEO and founder Chris Power framed the raise as a response to fragility in global supply chains and the strategic need to reunite design and production inside the United States, arguing that prior assumptions about offshore manufacturing are no longer tenable. The company will use the fresh capital to accelerate factory rollouts, expand workforce training programs, and deepen investment in AI-driven tooling and real-time manufacturing intelligence to meet rising domestic demand. For executives and investors, the transaction signals growing institutional confidence in Hadrian’s role as an infrastructure-like manufacturing platform for U.S. industrial and defense programs, with scale-up execution and technology deployment now the primary focus areas.