"We're building the biggest energy company on Earth."
Valar Atomics CEO Isaiah Taylor discusses the startup's $1 billion funding round, its plan to scale nuclear power and why he believes nuclear is critical to winning the AI race https://t.co/HZplrhhHPJ
Announcing Valar Atomics' $1B series B led by Sequoia, with Valor Equity Partners, Atreides, Point72, Conviction, and others.
Alongside the $1B equity, we have closed a $200m credit facility led by Erebor and JPM.
I'm excited to welcome Shaun Maguire from Sequoia to our board.
Sovereignty in the future will be defined by ownership of the robotics supply chain.
America doesn't own it. We're not even close. And we won't notice until the day every American suddenly wants a robot. https://t.co/f89aSZhjfz
Good morning.
Last night at 8:51pm Mountain Time, the Valar Atomics Nuclear Operations team brought Ward 250 to 10kW thermal output. We held this power level throughout the night.
This is another historic milestone from the Valar team, marking first nuclear power by a startup.
Sustained fission. Again. In our power reactor. In our own ground-up facility. Built by us. Operated by us. Outside of the national labs. By request of the President. By America’s 250th. For God’s glory.
Now, we ramp to power before July 4th. 🇺🇸
Westmag is building American robot actuators and drone motors at scale.
In 2025, @westmagco raised $11M led by @a16z, with participation from @FoundersFund, @LuxCapital, NFDG, @MenloVentures, and other top investors.
Since then, we’ve been building industrial capacity, crawling up supply chains, and securing high-volume customers.
Now, we’re ramping production at our factory in South San Francisco to deliver against committed offtake orders from high-volume customers.
Westmag is committed to scaling quickly in the US to deliver millions of drone motors and robot actuators to the surging domestic and global market.
We’re building the great American motor and actuator company.