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Hadrian, the Torrance-based advanced manufacturing company building highly automated "Factories-as-a-Service" for defense and aerospace, raised a $1.37B Series D at a $7.87B valuation on 8/6 — co-led by WCM Investment Management, Washington Harbour Partners, Valor Equity Partners, 137 Ventures, and Baillie Gifford, with JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group as anchor co-lead and participation from 1789 Capital, Apollo, T. Rowe Price, CapitalG, a16z, Founders Fund, Lux, Altimeter, and Construct Capital. Total raised is now ~$2.1B across 9 rounds, with four factories spanning nearly three million square feet.

  1. David Venegas in SF (Founder & CEO @ Edgerun Industries)

    1. Role: Engineering @ Hadrian (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder @ Durin, SWE @ Stoke Space

    3. Description: "Hardware for the human body"

  2. Zach Burg in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Product @ Hadrian (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Incubations @ Atoms, Incubations @ Wavemaker Labs

    3. Description: Stealth since 5/25 — "Physical World"

  3. Steve Cohen in LA (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Automated Manufacturing @ Hadrian (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CEO @ Metal Cross, Founder & CEO @ Atlas White (100+ institutions across 4 continents → exited 2021), Nanophotonics Research @ UCLA, USC Keck MD

    3. Description: Left Metal Cross 6/26

  4. William Carroll in Austin (Co-Founder & CEO @ Observed Matter)

    1. Role: SRE @ Hadrian (3 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: SRE @ Google, SWE @ Google

    3. Description: Founded Observed Matter 3/25

Form Energy, the Somerville-based developer of multi-day iron-air grid batteries, raised a $750M Series G led by T. Rowe Price, joined by Sequoia Capital, Janus Henderson, Franklin Templeton, PEAK6, Prelude Ventures, Engine Ventures, TPG Rise Climate, Capricorn, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, Gigascale Capital, Coatue, Energy Impact Partners, NGP, and GE Vernova.

  1. HoLum Kwok in US (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: 2nd Finance Hire & Interim CFO @ Form Energy (5.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Finance & Strategy @ Tesla, Equity Research @ Goldman Sachs

    3. Description: Left Form Energy 4/26 with no updates

  2. Anna Schneider in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Director of Software Engineering @ Form Energy (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Co-Founder & CTO @ WattTime (day one → acq by Rocky Mountain Institute), Data Science Manager @ Stitch Fix, SWE @ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Berkeley Biophysics PhD

    3. Description: Left Form Energy 3/26

  3. Zac Judkins in SF (CEO & Founder @ Path Power)

    1. Role: VP of Engineering @ Form Energy (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: VP of Engineering @ SunPower, MIT MEng Materials Science, Berkeley BA Physics

    3. Description: Founded Path Power 2/25

  4. Scott Burger in SF (Co-Founder & President @ Firma Power)

    1. Role: Director of Business Development & Analytics @ Form Energy (6 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: MIT PhD, Eng Systems

    3. Description: "Bringing clean firm power to market this decade"

  5. Annie Baldwin in SF (Potential Founder)

    1. Role: Head of Hardware Product Management @ Form Energy (5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Manager @ Farmer's Business Network, Stanford GSB MBA + MS Energy, Harvard AB Chemistry & Physics

    3. Description: Career break since 8/25

  6. Arthur Esswein in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Supply Chain Director @ Form Energy (<1 yr)

    2. Other Experience: Director, Battery Raw Material Supply Chain @ Tesla, Business Development Analyst @ Lockheed Martin, Founding Scientist @ Sun Catalytix (MIT spinout → acq by Lockheed Martin 2014), Postdoctoral Associate @ UC Berkeley

    3. Description: Stealth CEO since 3/26

  7. Bryan McLaughlin in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: Staff Electromechanical Engineer @ Form Energy (2.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Senior Hardware Engineer @ Nuro, 1st Battery Specialist & Senior Battery Engineer @ Fitbit

    3. Description: "Creating a new way to interact with computers"

  8. Gabriele Pozzato in SF (Co-Founder & CTO @ IronGrid)

    1. Role: Staff Battery Modeling Engineer @ Form Energy (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Engineer @ Stanford, Project Manager @ Bosch Italia, Politecnico di Milano PhD

    3. Description: Founded IronGrid 7/25 — systems modeling, optimization, and control for grid storage

    4. Funding: Raised a ~$4.1M seed led by Climactic; Y Combinator (S25).

  9. Michael Plews in SF (Co-Founder & CEO @ Ohmic Labs)

    1. Role: Manager of CA Test Operations @ Form Energy (1.5 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Director of New Product Introduction @ QuantumScape, Postdoctoral Researcher @ Berkeley Lab, UIC Chemistry PhD

    3. Description: "Making battery testing software better"

  10. Sid Radhakrishna in Boston (Stealth)

    1. Role: Finance & Business Operations Senior Associate @ Form Energy (4 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Head of Business Development & Strategy @ Sora Fuel, Associate @ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Founding Team & 1st Employee @ Illumen Capital

    3. Description: Stealth since 9/25

  11. Sushant Thakur in SF (Stealth)

    1. Role: Engineering Manager @ Form Energy (2 yrs)

    2. Other Experience: Infrastructure Engineer, Special Projects @ CloudKitchens, SWE @ Samsara, Head of Wearable Computing @ Orion Labs, UC Berkeley

    3. Description: Stealth since '26

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