Company
Built in Britain.
Valarian did not begin by selling infrastructure. It began by building software for environments where control was non-negotiable: privileged communications, external communications capture, secure collaboration, government deployments and AI products.
Each product forced the same question: what must the underlying platform guarantee before the application can be trusted? The answer kept pushing the team deeper into the stack: more isolation, more visibility, more auditability, clearer blast-radius boundaries, workload-level governance.
The infrastructure became the product. That product is ACRA.
The team building Valarian.
Founded and led by operators — alongside people from US Special Operations, Palantir and Darktrace.
Max Buchan · Co-founder & CEO
Max Buchan
Co-founder & CEO
Max Buchan founded Valarian to give organisations true digital autonomy. His background in international finance has led him to focus on infrastructure where privacy, compliance, and control aren’t optional.
Josh McLaughlin · Co-founder & COO
Josh McLaughlin
Co-founder & COO
Josh McLaughlin is a retired US Army Officer and Ranger with service in conventional and special operations units. He deployed operationally across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. Prior to Valarian Josh led new market expansion at Palantir, including Qatar.
Ryan Radloff · Chief Revenue Officer
Ryan Radloff
Chief Revenue Officer
Co-founded CoinShares, Europe’s largest digital asset investment firm, then spent six years as CEO of retirement platform Choice. A career building regulated financial products for institutions that cannot outsource trust.
Ciaran McKey · Head of Engineering
Ciaran McKey
Head of Engineering
Joined Valarian after designing and building Darktrace’s Cloud Security product. Co-author of six patents in cybersecurity, with a deep understanding of secure system development.
Nick Trim · Chairman
Nick Trim
Chairman
Co-Founder and Former COO of Darktrace, which he helped scale to a $5.3B acquisition by Thoma Bravo, bringing category-defining British security scale-up experience to the board.
Join the team.
Building in Britain, for environments where control is non-negotiable. We’re hiring engineers and operators.
2020
Founded · London
100s
Enclaves deployed
4
Continents deployed
$70M
Raised to date
Our investors
The backing behind the build — a Series A led by NEA, alongside the funds and operators who’ve done this before.
- NEA
- Scout Ventures
- Artis Ventures
- Lightbank
- XTX Ventures
- Sequel
- Litquidity Ventures
- IQ Capital
- Molten Ventures
- Gokul Rajaram
- Nikesh Arora
- + many others