Funding rounds
Announced	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors	Other investors	Confidence
Mar 5, 2026	Series B	$80.0M	$1.00B?	Founders Fund	General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Red Glass, Sequoia Capital	Confirmed
Jun 12, 2025	Series B	$75.0M	—	Sequoia Capital	Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital	Confirmed
Apr 18, 2024	Seed	$7.5M	—	Lux Capital	Founders Fund	Confirmed
Apr 18, 2024	Series A	$20.0M	—	General Catalyst	—	Confirmed

Series B
Led by Founders Fund
With General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital, Red Glass, Sequoia Capital
Valuation $1.00B?
Confirmed
$80.0M
Mar 5, 2026
Series B
Led by Sequoia Capital
With Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lux Capital
Confirmed
$75.0M
Jun 12, 2025
Seed
Led by Lux Capital
With Founders Fund
Confirmed
$7.5M
Apr 18, 2024
Series A
Led by General Catalyst
Confirmed
$20.0M
Apr 18, 2024

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems2

Nominal Connect

Edge software for capturing instrument data, controlling hardware and sequencing tests from Python.

Fielded

Nominal Core

A collaborative workspace that provides test data management, analysis, live monitoring, reporting, and operations for hardware engineering.

Maturity not rated

Newest unveiled first. Open a system for its milestone timeline, components and sources.

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Facilities
Facility	Kind	Location	Status	Confidence
Los Angeles office	Office	Los Angeles, CA, United States	Operating	Confirmed
Nominal — Los Angeles	Office	Los Angeles, CA, United States	Operating	Reported

Los Angeles office
Office · Los Angeles, CA, United States
Operating
Confirmed
Nominal — Los Angeles
Office · Los Angeles, CA, United States
Operating
Reported

People10

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Bryce Strauss · LinkedIn ↗
Co-founder
Cameron McCord
Co-founder and CEO
Jason Hoch · LinkedIn ↗
Co-founder
Alfred Lin
Board member
Brandon Reeves
Board member
Cameron McCord
CEO
Javier Molina
Head of Revenue
Jenn Wilson
Head of Federal
Paul Kwan · LinkedIn ↗
Board member
Stephen Slattery
Head of Product

Company Metrics

LinkedIn employee profiles: 273; Observed Oct 11, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗
LinkedIn followers: 20,567; Observed Oct 11, 2026
Bright Data / LinkedIn · Source ↗

Employee-profile counts reflect LinkedIn profiles associated with the company, not verified headcount. One observation establishes a baseline; it does not establish growth.

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Profile5

1
CompanyNominal Acquires Fid Labs to Bring AI to the Full Hardware Engineering Lifecycle
Nominal (GlobeNewswire) · Apr 30, 2026 · Supports Organization · hq city
“LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)”
2
CompanyNominal Awarded $53 Million IDIQ Contract to Support Modernization of Air Force Test Center Data Infrastructure
Nominal (GlobeNewswire) · Apr 14, 2026 · Supports Organization, Organization · country, Organization · legal name, Organization · name, Organization · website
“Nominal announced it has been awarded a sole-source, multi-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the Air Force Test Center (AFTC).”
3
CompanyNominal | The unified software suite to test and operate hardware
Supports Organization
“Engineering teams rely on Nominal to execute tests, analyze results in real time, collaborate across disciplines, and deliver resilient hardware in days, not months.”
4
CompanyAviation | Nominal - Unified Industrial Data Stack
Nominal · Supports Organization · description
“Nominal accelerates flight test campaigns for advanced aircraft. Despite advancements in flight technologies, the software for testing and validating these systems hasn't kept pace with innovation. Test engineers frequently waste time linking various tools for a tech stack instead of concentrating on new systems, especially for cloud software observability. Some choose to create in-house solutions, which face challenges with growing data scales and reliability as production increases. Where Tests Actually Get Stuck Long waits Data reviews took hours or days, delaying iteration and risking missed test points. Messy data Incompatible formats and changing schemas across simulations, engines, and flight systems. Laborious Manual Work Engineers manually aligned telemetry, logs, and video across disparate test environments. Siloed Knowledge Teams at different sites struggled to share real-time insights, losing historical context. Nominal provides a complete platform for managing and automating flight test review. A Nominal integration can accelerate test cadence by an order of magnitude. Engineers compare test points across all historical flights in clicks, validating behavior in-flight with streaming checklists.”
5
DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory
Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind
“{"group": "startups", "id": "84ac2818-d9f9-4bb8-b1cb-193faa33c72a", "name": "Nominal"}”

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CompanyNominal Core
Nominal · Supports System
“Nominal Core](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/xupoa92h/nominal-2025/68bad0fe5089d13218c8a175b55e7eefad748acc-163x18.svg) # From test to answers in minutes, not days. Test data management, advanced analysis, live monitoring, reporting, and operations. All in one collaborative workspace.”
7
CompanySpace Systems
Supports System
“Nominal connects orbital dynamics with system performance The platform reconciles live ephemeris data with bus and payload telemetry to provide a single synchronized timeline for validation of asset health from single satellites to fu”

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CompanyWe raised $80M to make hardware teams AI-ready
Nominal · Mar 5, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · post money valuation usd, Organization, Organization · description, Organization · ownership
“Nominal raised an additional $80 million at a valuation of $1 billion”
9
NewsFounders Fund Leads $80 Million Bet on Manufacturing Unicorn
Bloomberg · Mar 5, 2026 · Supports Funding round · announced on, Funding round · notes
“March 5, 2026 at 8:00 AM EST”
10
CompanyNominal Valued at $1B as Founders Fund Leads $80M Acceleration Round
Nominal (GlobeNewswire) · Mar 5, 2026 · Supports Facility, Funding round · investors, Organization · hq city
“LOS ANGELES, March 05, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)”
11
CompanyNominal Raises $75 Million, led by Sequoia Capital, to Modernize Hardware Testing
PR Newswire · Jun 12, 2025 · Supports Funding round · amount
“today announced a $75 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital”
12
CompanyNominal Emerges From Stealth With Backing From General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Founders Fund
Business Wire · Apr 18, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount
“The startup raised $7.5M in Seed funding led by Lux Capital with support from Founders Fund”

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CompanyCareers | Nominal
Nominal · Supports Facility
“New York, NY / Los Angeles, CA / Austin, TX”
14
DatabaseLinkedIn company profile
LinkedIn · Supports Facility, Organization · description, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · website, Organization metric · employees in linkedin, Organization metric · followers
“locations: ['Austin, TX, US', 'Los Angeles, CA, US', 'New York, NY, US']”

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CompanyNominal Awarded $53 Million IDIQ Contract to Support Modernization of Air Force Test Center Data Infrastructure
Nominal (GlobeNewswire) · Apr 14, 2026 · Supports Organization · founded year, Role
“Founded in 2022, Nominal is built on the belief that learning from tests faster than the”
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CompanyAbout Us | Nominal
Nominal · Supports Role
“Jenn Wilson Head of Federal”

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