Ex-DOE Team Raises $130M to Build AI Factories That Don't Take Years

A team of former Department of Energy officials, led by an entrepreneur who sold a solar company and a software business, has launched Mavria and raised a massive $130 million seed round at a $1 billion valuation. The company aims to solve the physical infrastructure bottleneck for AI by building factory-made data centers instead of custom construction projects.

Mavria's first product, Terrain, is a modular data center platform already in production in Houston, designed to deploy compute capacity faster and cheaper for AI labs and cloud providers. The funding, led by Paradigm, will scale manufacturing and secure supply chains. This signals a major shift from software to the gritty industrial reality needed to power the AI boom, potentially accelerating deployment timelines from years to months.