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▶ 0:17 · $VALARIAN · BREAKING: Valarian raised $50m Series A: Max Buchan, CEO of Valarian
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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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“we just did a uh 50 million series A uh which you know about led by NEA. Um really cool. It's their first dualpurpose/defense investment in Europe which is really really cool man. So, um, lucky to work with someone really great there, uh,…”
—max buchan
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