Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
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Valar Atomics, a startup building small modular nuclear reactors, is in talks to raise a new round at a $6 billion valuation, with Sequoia expected to lead. The company previously raised $450 million at a $2 billion valuation, and the deal structure highlights a trend of multi-stage funding rounds where investors pay different prices for the same company. Valar recently demonstrated its reactor powering an Nvidia AI chip and announced a partnership with Nvidia to explore nuclear energy for AI data centers, amid rising demand for data center electricity.