Hadrian

An Australian entrepreneur who studied commerce, accounting, and business law at Monash University and then ran small e-commerce businesses and headed sales and marketing at an enterprise software company before managing a private equity fund focused on aerospace and defense supply chains. In 2019 he emigrated to San Francisco with $6,000 and founded Hadrian in 2020, targeting the critical bottleneck in U.S. precision CNC machining for aerospace and defense. Named to Forbes's next billion-dollar startups list, the company raised a $260M Series C in 2025, bringing total funding past $500M.