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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 and CEO 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 and COO 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

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

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

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.

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Building in Britain, for environments where control is non-negotiable. We’re hiring engineers and operators.

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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
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