Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation (Bloomberg)

<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/sequoia-leads-1-billion-funding-round-for-nuclear-startup-valar"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260803/i26.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260803/p26#a260803p26" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-03/sequoia-leads-1-billion-funding-round-for-nuclear-startup-valar">Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume.</p>