🛠 **Sequoia Backs Nominal's $1B Bet on Modernizing Hardware Testing**

Sequoia profiles its investment in Nominal, which is replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with a unified data stack for testing mission-critical hardware.
• The company raised a **$75M Series B** led by Sequoia, then an $80M extension at a **$1B valuation** — roughly $155M in 10 months.
• Aerospace customer Hermeus used the platform to monitor brakes, actuators, and avionics live during an actual flight test.
_Sequoia partner Alfred Lin, who'd passed on an earlier round, came back once the tailwinds became undeniable._

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