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Nominal recently closed a $75 million Series B funding round.
Nominal's $75 million Series B round was led by Sequoia, with Lightspeed Venture Partners co-leading.
Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia, will be joining the board of directors at Nominal.
Nominal hired Jack Palmer, the former founder and CEO of Plotly, to lead its Nominal Connect product.
Nominal's long-term strategy is to become a multi-product business, with plans to deliver five to eight products for the hardware testing and operations domain.
Nominal Connect is a desktop-native application designed for high-performance tasks, such as aborting a propulsion test within five milliseconds, which is not feasible with web-based frameworks.
The Department of Defense is shifting from 10-20 year development cycles to shorter, 24-month cycles for smaller, autonomous, and attributable systems.
Following its Series B, Nominal's total funding has reached just over $100 million.
Nominal's Series B fundraising process, from initial pitches to signing a term sheet, was completed in approximately 10 days.
SpaceX has invested millions of dollars in its internal toolchain for ERP, fleet management, and data analysis.
Nominal is a dual-use company serving customers in aerospace, defense, energy, transportation, advanced mobility, and manufacturing, as well as the Department of Defense directly.
The reshoring of supply chains is creating a massive amount of qualification and validation work for companies that must test components from new vendors.