Valarian
AI Governance & Compliance
$70Mtotal raised · 10 rounds on record
12open roles
$50Mlatest round · Series A · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
6backers · Founders Factory, IQ Capital
Overview
Valarian gives organisations the control architecture required for high-consequence operations and increasingly capable systems. Built in Britain by operators who have seen what breaks.
How Valarian hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
59 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
43%
Reposted roles
0%
Valarian scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 43% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 59 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$70M
10 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Series A · Jul 2026 · 3 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
14
+8 posted in 30 days
Grants
$349k
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
6
Founders Factory, IQ Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
3 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
43/100
hiring for its size, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 14
Raised a round Series A $50M · led by NEA
Jul 3
Raised a round Venture round
May 8, 2025
Raised a round Seed $20M · PRNewswire
Mar 14, 2025
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 5, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 28, 2022
Raised a round Venture round
Jun 16, 2021
Raised a round Venture round
Nov 1, 2020
Won a grant $349k · CORDIS
Apr 20, 2020
Raised a round Venture round
2020
Founded
Dec 18, 2019
Raised a round Venture round
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | Jul 2026 | $50M | NEA lead | morningstar.com |
| Venture round | Jul 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Seed | May 2025 | $20M | — | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Mar 2025 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Apr 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Nov 2022 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Jun 2021 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Grant | Nov 2020 | $349k | — | CORDIS |
| Venture round | Apr 2020 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Dec 2019 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Policy Valarian Technologies Limited | its site |
| Registered | 4 Nov 2019 |
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Jobs
Hybrid · Full-Time · London
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Terraform
GCP
GitHub Actions
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ArgoCD
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≈ $82k – $194k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
JavaScript
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DevOps
Rest API
gRPC
Helm
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Python
LangGraph
AutoGen
LangChain
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Function Calling
AI Agents
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Ragas
LLM
Structured Outputs
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LLM Guardrails
Machine Learning
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Kubernetes
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IAM
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SOC 2
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Threat Modeling
SIEM
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Go
CI/CD
GitOps
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Service Mesh
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External Secrets
Cybersecurity
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≈ $67k – $153k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · London
Python
GCP
Istio
Consul
Linkerd
Azure
HAProxy
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Service Mesh
eBPF
VPN
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Falco
ISO 27001
SOC 2
CVE
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
64/100
Growing
Open positions
14
7 opened / 7 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
54 days
faster than 25% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
13% ▼
Data Science
13% ▲
DevOps
13% ▼
HR
13% ▲
Frontend
6% ▲
Leadership
6% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Neo4j to stack
Oct 2026
Added Knowledge Graph to stack
Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack
Oct 2026
Added Prefect to stack
Oct 2026
Added Git to stack
Oct 2026
Added Dagster to stack
Oct 2026
Added Perplexity to stack
Oct 2026
Added Framer to stack
Oct 2026
Added Figma to stack
Oct 2026
Added Darktrace to stack
Oct 2026
Added Slack to stack
Oct 2026
Added VPN to stack
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$70.3M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
10
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2026 | $50M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | Details |
| Seed | 2025 | $20M | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | Details |
| Grant | 2020 | $349k | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | — | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Valarian over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
128
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
70/100AI adopter
Languages
Python40%
Go20%
JavaScript15%
SQL10%
Frameworks & libraries
OpenTelemetry20%
React.js10%
AutoGen10%
LangChain10%
Databases
PostgreSQL10%
Neo4j5%
Milvus5%
Pinecone5%
Cloud & platforms
Kubernetes60%
Darktrace25%
Perplexity25%
GCP25%
AI & ML
LLM10%
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128 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Found in company registers, site code, DNS and hiring. Each connection shows how sure we are and the evidence, with its source and date.
Shared investors
Scout VenturesVia a fund
IQ CapitalVia a fund
Playfair CapitalVia a fund
Molten VenturesVia a fund
Founders FactoryVia a fund
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Same group
Likely
News
Valarian Raises $50 Million Series a Led by NEA to Deliver the Sovereign Infrastructure Layer for High-Consequence Operations and AI Driven Systems
LONDON, July 14, 2026--VALARIAN RAISES $50 MILLION SERIES A LED BY NEA TO DELIVER THE SOVEREIGN INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER FOR HIGH-CONSEQUENCE OPERATIONS AND AI DRIVEN SYSTEMS
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Valarian Raises $50 Million Series A To Build Sovereign Infrastructure For AI-Driven Systems
Valarian announced that it raised $50 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates, bringing the company's total funding raised to $70 million.
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Valarian Raises $50 Million Series a Led by NEA to Deliver the Sovereign Infrastructure Layer for High-Consequence Operations and AI Driven Systems
New Funding Brings Total Amount Raised to $70 Million; Focused on Accelerating Delivery of Infrastructure Sovereignty Across Enterprise and Government Environments Valarian, the company building the
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Valarian Raises $50 Million Series a Led by NEA to Deliver the Sovereign Infrastructure Layer for High-Consequence Operations and AI Driven Systems
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Valarian: $20 Million Raised For Isolation And Compartmentalized Infrastructure Platform
Valarian, which is the company behind ACRA, a platform for enforced isolation and compartmentalized infrastructure, emerged from stealth, with $7 million in strategic funding. This brings the company's total seed funding to $20 million.
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VALARIAN EMERGES FROM STEALTH WITH $20M IN SEED FUNDING, LAUNCHES VALARIAN DEFENCE AMID GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE SHIFT
/PRNewswire/ -- Valarian, the company behind ACRA - a platform for enforced isolation and compartmentalized infrastructure - today emerged from stealth,...
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This new Palantir-alumni-founded startup wants to help governments and companies control their data
Data management startup Valarian, founded by a Palantir alumni, raises $20 million to expand its secure ACRA platform into the defense sector.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
London
London
United Kingdom
HQ
14 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 64% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Security
Earlier presence
Manchester, United Kingdom