Nominal is Making Hardware Teams AI-Ready

Nominal, providing the tools and infrastructure engineers need to deliver mission-critical
capabilities at scale in the shortest time possible, led by Cameron McCord, Bryce Strauss, Jason Hoch, and the team, has raised an additional $80 million at a valuation of $1 billion. Founders Fund led the round, with continued support from Sequoia, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, Red Glass, and Lightspeed. 

Nominal supports high-stakes engineering programs by managing end-to-end data flows, capturing, structuring, and automating workflows so AI delivers real value.

In the 10 months since its Series B, revenue has grown 7×, the team has tripled to 135 across five cities, and four of the five largest defense contractors now rely on Nominal. Adoption spreads through trust, with teams bringing the platform from one program to the next.

With this funding, Nominal plans to strengthen support for global hardware teams in three ways:

1. Build faster: Iterating on Nominal Core and Nominal Connect to make tools more reliable, intelligent, and AI-ready, compounding value from rich data catalogs and engineering judgment.

2. Expand strategically: Combining organic growth with acquisitions of extraordinary technology and teams across the U.S. and Europe to accelerate AI-ready data supply chains.

3. Broaden impact: Extending beyond aerospace and defense into automotive, energy, manufacturing, robotics, and all industries where engineers test and operate physical systems, delivering trusted “Tools for Progress.”

Nominal was founded on the belief that engineers shaping the future deserve software built for serious work, not incremental legacy tools or lightweight dashboards. The company is creating platforms designed to support modern hardware companies for the next fifty years, committed to delivering reliability and trust for the most critical programs.