Find XO: The Era of Hardware DevOps: Nominal Achieves $1 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com)

- Nominal raised $155 million over 10 months, gaining a $1 billion valuation. - More intriguing than its defense industry focus is how it consolidated scattered testing tools to reduce decision-making time from days to minutes. - Domestic hardware teams should first consider how long customers are stalled waiting for test results before trying to follow the investment craze in the US defense market.