London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)

<a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260713/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260713/p26#a260713p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Lily Mae Lazarus / <a href="http://www.fortune.com/">Fortune</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://fortune.com/2026/07/13/ai-sovereignty-cloud-valarian-50-million-nea-palantir-europe-microsoft-aws-google-defense/">London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Max Buchan started advocating for infrastructure sovereignty when, as he puts it, &ldquo;globalization and Davos were still cool.&rdquo;</p>