Isaiah Taylor

Isaiah Taylor is Founder & CEO of Valar Atomics, a nuclear energy company based in El Segundo, founded in 2023. Valar Atomics's most recent disclosed round was a Series B of $1B in Aug 2026.

1. 2023Founded

   Founded by Isaiah Taylor to develop high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, with the stated aim of building clusters of thousands of reactors for industrial power.

2. Feb 2025Milestone

   Emerges from stealth with a contract with the Philippines Nuclear Research Institute to pilot a test-scale reactor and build two full-scale reactors.

3. Nov 2025Milestone

   NOVA core achieves zero-power criticality at Los Alamos National Laboratory's criticality experiments facility in Nevada.

4. Jun 2026Milestone

   Signs a development agreement with Nvidia for a waterless 30MW AI facility, and demonstrates Ward 250 powering an Nvidia Blackwell system.

5. 18 Jun 2026Milestone

   Ward 250 completes a zero-power fuelled criticality demonstration at the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab, the second reactor under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program and the first DOE-authorised reactor built outside the national laboratory system.