Nominal
Nominal turns hardware testing into a software discipline, from edge to cloud.
- Category
- AI & Machine Learning
- Launched
- July 30, 2026
- Stage
- Series B
- Pricing
- freemium
- Founder
- Cameron McCord
- Website
- nominal.io
Nominal is a software company for people who build things that can kill you if they fail. Its customers test autonomous vehicles, rockets, and energy systems—hardware where a missed anomaly isn't a bug fix, it's a recall, a crash, or a failed mission. The company's pitch is that the bottleneck in bringing these systems to market isn't the hardware itself, but the messy, manual, often siloed process of testing it. And with a recent $80M raise at a $1B valuation, the market is signaling that this thesis—that hardware testing is fundamentally a software problem—is worth taking seriously.
Discovered via
- GeekWire Startups · · Seattle lands another $1B startup: Here’s the latest arrival in the industrial AI boom