BREAKING: Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that Elon Musk will co-lead a new War Department effort studying the future of warfare during his State of the Force address.
Hegseth unveils Project Meridian, naming Musk, Palmer Luckey and Newt Gingrich to co-lead the effort under the department's Chief Technology Officer Emil Michael.
"An effort led by America's best minds to study the future of warfare."
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Spoke with @tectonicdefense @barratt_dewey about building America’s first biology prime @pilgrimlabs
☣️ The US is dramatically underprepared to detect biological threats at the speed they spread. CA-based @pilgrimlabs, run by 22-year-old @jakeadler, raised $25M to scale production of its airborne pathogen detection system that aims to change that.
🔗 @barratt_dewey has the full story at the link below.
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“We had a joke that, if we couldn’t fundraise, then we would have done a challenge study where [I would] basically infect [myself] with a virus to test the system. Fortunately we didn’t have to do that.” (what)
@jakeadler = built different
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☣️ The US is dramatically underprepared to detect biological threats at the speed they spread. CA-based @pilgrimlabs, run by 22-year-old @jakeadler, raised $25M to scale production of its airborne pathogen detection system that aims to change that.
🔗 @barratt_dewey has the full story at the link below.
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I visited Jake’s lab a hot minute ago. I knew they were gonna make it when they had a massive ass CNC machine blocking the warehouse door because they barely had space.
Can’t fucking wait
NEWS: Pilgrim, a startup building a system to spot biological threats, wins backing from Anthropic leaders
For those asking, @asimov_co and @jegilliland absolutely cooked on our site - truly the best in the game
Biology is too important to leave to biologists alone
We’re assembling a team of engineers, operators and scientists to rapidly develop and deploy biotech for defense and national security.
Email me your portfolio at jake@pilgrimlabs.com or visit
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1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.
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Beyond grateful to have such a great group of institutional and angel investors in our corner.
Now back to work 🏴☠️
1/ Biological threats can bring a country to a halt without a single shot being fired. Yet much of our biodefense infrastructure has barely changed in decades, even as America’s institutions produce extraordinary scientific breakthroughs.
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@jakeadler @pilgrimlabs Always
Josh invested in @pilgrimlabs at the end of our first 20 minute phone call.
I was 17, had raised $60k and was pitching a device that was going to shock people to sleep.
Early conviction is rare - advice you can count on, whatever the situation or the hour, is rarer.
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Browder Capital is thrilled to be a large pre-pre seed investor in Jake Adler from July 2022. Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and Jake has overcome seemingly impossible challenges to develop his product and announce his $25m raise today.
Congratulations to Jake and the Pilgrim team on this incredible milestone.
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Today we’re launching Parallax, the AI energy company with a $117m fundraise led by Founders Fund, Eclipse, Lux, Diffusion, Greylock and General Catalyst. (1/5)
Cool to see two Canadian Thiel Fellows announce rounds back to back days.
Congrats @hoomanrenezhad and @jakeadler! 🇨🇦
wtf is this itinerary? if you wanted to act as a pathogen vector across the western US, seems perfect.
Chicago→L.A. (9/10-9/12)
L.A.→Bakersfield→Stockton→Oroville (9/12)
Oroville→Sacramento→Emeryville (9/13)
Emeryville→Denver (9/14)
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You should absolutely press “stop pandemic”.
Today we're announcing $75M to build Solcoa One, our 500-tonne rare earth metallization plant in Nevada.
At Solcoa, we believe rare earths are the foundation of America's next great industrial era. An era we intend to win on the merits, with superior American technology.
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We’ve secured $75M in financing to build Solcoa One, our first commercial rare earth metallization plant.
Congrats to @jakeadler and team! - Biosecurity will take all of the ingenuity our society has to offer - super excited that Jake and team are taking this on, and can’t wait to see how this grows
Imagine having one of these bio-sensors (if they are reasonably accurate etc) in a hospital. With tubes going to each room, continually diagnosing anyone/everyone in a hospital. *that* would be useful/valuable. And yet that's not what the grants etc. are for. DARPA did a big thing on this subject like 1.5 years ago or something. Again, all about putting sensors in I guess government/military buildings. Definitely hospitals were not even mentioned iirc. It's all just about the rich people protecting themselves, probably from the proles and their sickies, not even from actual bioweapons. It takes 60 minutes to even give a result, any actual bio-attack is going to be over by then?
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whatever you do, don’t press “stop pandemic” at the bottom of
