Hard tech used to be a hard sell in Silicon Valley. Now, a major venture firm is staffing up to invest in it.

Felicis, the Bay Area venture capital firm best known for bets on Shopify, Notion, and Mercor, has hired Graham Littlehale as a partner to invest in aerospace, defense, energy, manufacturing, and robotics, the firm told Business Insider.

Littlehale joins from Point72 Ventures, where he was an early member of its national security investing team. His investments there included Stoke Space, which is developing reusable rockets, and Rune Technologies, which builds software for military logistics.

The hire signals that Felicis is doubling…

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