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newrecordconfirmed Series A, Nov 2025: $130M co-led by Snowpoint, Day One and Dream; total raised then 'more than $150 million'
2025-11-10 · fund-004 · Valar Atomics, Snowpoint Ventures, Day One Ventures, Dream Ventures, Doug Philippone, Palmer Luckey, Shyam Sankar, John Donovan · Series A (reported): $130,000,000; total funding after the Series A ('more than', as reported): $150,000,000

ANS Nuclear Newswire (13 Nov 2025) reported a $130 million Series A 'led by venture capital groups Snowpoint, Day One, and Dream', with Snowpoint co-founder Doug Philippone joining the board and total funding above $150 million. Tech Startups (10 Nov 2025) gives the same three leads, names Palmer Luckey (Anduril's founder) and Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar as backers, says Lockheed Martin director and former AT&T executive John Donovan joined the round, and says the raise pushed Valar's total funding to more than $150 million. Contrary Research (an investor, 11 Nov 2025) credits the lead to Philippone at Snowpoint and lists Luckey, Sankar, Dream, Day One and Contrary itself, with a 'Total Funding' figure of $150M. The sum of the earlier rounds ($1.5M + about $19M + $130M) matches the $150 million total. The New Republic reports that much of the $130 million came from Luckey and Sankar (ppl-010); that does not contradict the three named leads, since a lead investor sets the terms of a round and need not supply most of the money, but no source gives the split. No valuation for this round appears in any source read; The Next Web later said only that the Series A valued Valar at 'a fraction' of its March 2026 price. The same month, TriplePoint lent Valar $5 million (fund-005). Valar's library has no Series A article of its own; its Series A items link to a LinkedIn post by Taylor (a TBPN clip), a paywalled Bloomberg story, an Axios Pro Rata item and an LA Times B2B story, none of which could be read (orig-049).

In plain termsIn November 2025 Valar raised $130 million from three venture firms and several well-known defense-technology figures, bringing its total to about $150 million. Nobody published what the company was said to be worth at that point. Its backers include the founders or top executives of Anduril and Palantir, two major defense contractors, and a Lockheed Martin board member.
verified 2026-09-29: Re-verified 2026-09-29: ANS, Tech Startups, Contrary and The Next Web re-read; quotes exact. Fixed a quote-style rendering of Contrary's total and added the Axios item the library also links.

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