Valarian Technologies

Valarian builds secure infrastructure and collaboration tools for organizations operating in high-stakes environments. The company was founded in 2020 by Max Buchan and Josh McLaughlin to address communication and data control challenges they encountered in military operations and international finance. The company's core technology is ACRA, a custom-built platform for secure, compartmentalized data storage, access, and compute. ACRA provides isolated environments where each deployment stands alone with no crossover between systems. The platform enforces compartmentalized access controls, ensuring data and compute resources remain sealed to their intended purpose with no lateral movement possible. Organizations can create new secure enclaves in seconds through push-button provisioning. Valarian builds its suite of collaboration, compliance, and coordination software on top of the ACRA platform. These tools serve both enterprise customers and government programs requiring bespoke security solutions. The architecture is designed for deployment in hostile environments and classified data scenarios. The company's team includes former soldiers, intelligence officers, and security experts with backgrounds in special operations, UK government, US Air Force, and special forces. Valarian's approach focuses on giving organizations direct control over how data moves and how trust is enforced at the infrastructure level, rather than relying on external cloud services or shared platforms.