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BREAKING: Valarian raised $50m Series A: Max Buchan, CEO of Valarian

2026-07-14 · 3 company · 10 thematic
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max buchan

Max Buchan is the founder and CEO of Valarian, a sovereign AI infrastructure company. He was previously on the early founding team of Conchair (which went public) and left at age 24 to start Valarian. His co-founder Josh spent 12 years at Palantir and his chairman co-founded Darktrace.

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“you remember whiz the cyber security company one of the one of the best things that they did super well was be agnostic to cloud right that that enabled a huge um a huge growth spurt and it was kind of similar for us us not being locked in…”
—max buchan
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