Five+ years ago, investing in a company building factories with automation and AI was literally a dream for the future, so after meeting @2112Power over Zoom during the pandemic, we asked ourselves if we don't get on board here, what are we doing @constructcap ? We got on board. Congrats to Chris and the entire @HadrianInc team who announced its $1.37B Series D today to build the next wave of automated factory production that this country desperately needs. Today, Hadrian is one giant step closer to its mission. It has delivered "the factory as the product"—an automated, physical AI-driven, full actualization of a vision for the next 100 years of industrial progress in the US. It’s a true techno-industrial company, one of the only instantiations of physical AI, and one of the only software automation platforms for manufacturing that actually works. Chris’s big realization back then was not just that the industrial base could not meet the wave of demand brewing on the horizon but also that this demand could not be satisfied simply by reinvigorating, modernizing, or otherwise somehow Improving existing suppliers. The supply side of the equation had already massively contracted and the machine shop owners set to retire over the coming decade could not invest in technology--forget rebuilding those with a physical AI approach. We needed a new way forward. Hadrian is not and never was simply building another manufacturer, a supplier, automation of on onesie-twosie parts, or a project with great payback or unit economics (but they have that too!). That is not how you capture a tsunami of demand, modernize our industrial base and fill a huge gap in industrial capacity. His vision was to rebuild that foundation from the ground up. Just as importantly, they're proving that rebuilding American manufacturing isn't only about new facilities, it's about creating new opportunities for people. By bringing physical AI to the factory floor, Hadrian is enabling productivity to compound and attracting a new wave of the workforce to this sector, putting them to work in a fraction of the time it used to take to train a machinist. It's been an honor to serve on the board and watch this company grow from an ambitious vision into one of the defining companies shaping the future of American manufacturing. I'm excited for what comes next.