📱techSaturday, March 7, 2026·via TechCrunch
A hardware testing startup hit $1B in 10 months because vibes beat physics
$1,000,000,000 in about 10 months for a hardware testing startup is the kind of sentence that makes venture capital look like a casino where the dealers also do ketamine.
TLDR
Nominal raised $155M in like 10 months and hit a $1B valuation for testing hardware, which is either a real moat or VC brain fully melted.
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