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Valar Atomics

Renewable Energy · El Segundo, CA

Valar Atomics, a Hawthorne, California-based nuclear startup making small fission reactors for AI data centers, is in talks to raise $1 billion at approximately a $5 billion pre-money valuation, potentially as a mix of debt and equity. Sequoia Capital is in talks to lead the funding round.

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Los Angeles is a sprawling basin with no single center, home to Hollywood but also, less visibly, to one of the country's largest historic concentrations of aerospace employment — Douglas, Lockheed, and Caltech's JPL all built deep engineering talent there before the "entertainment capital" label took over. USC, UCLA, and Caltech all anchor different corners of that same base, and the render-and-storage infrastructure behind modern film and media is a direct descendant of both industries.

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Companies 44

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