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Hadrian Automation’s CEO wants to defy history and revitalize American industry
Chris Power, founder and CEO of industrial automation startup Hadrian, is a student of history. And in his studies, he observed that history repeats
And in his studies, he observed that history repeats itself: in particular, the cycle of empires ascending and descending, nearly all of them outsourcing core industries to lower-cost countries and paying for it in internal stagnation and, eventually, decline. But Power soon became convinced that the only way to move fast enough – to recover Pax Americana from the brink of destruction, essentially – was to leverage software and automation as much as possible: to make the factory the product. As a result, Power started fundraising a venture round last fall, which ballooned as strategic customers put in additional capital and the company secured around $25 million in debt financing for equipment and expansion.
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