Adam Draper ⏻✓

Big miss for us. Love this team.

🚨Today, we’re announcing our Series D raise of more than $150 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. America’s future arsenal cannot depend on yesterday’s production limits. Firehawk is the propulsion company built for the age of volume. We’ve evolved how energetics are manufactured, from propellant to motors to all-up rounds, so America and its allies can meet today’s demand and sustain overmatch for generations. Thank you to our leads, @Adventintl and @Rochefort_US, and our new and existing investors, for believing in our mission to make American strength inexhaustible. We're expanding America's ability to manufacture the munitions our warfighters need, at the speed and scale national security demands.

RT @navierboat: Before we share what’s next for Navier, a look at where it all began. @TimDraper was one of our earliest investors, one of our first customers, and has been one of our biggest champions. Here’s Tim on the N30 Pioneer, our first vessel, and the magic of the technology behind it! In the coming months, we’ll unveil our next generation of vessels, new partnerships, and an ecosystem that extends well beyond boats. Pioneer was just the beginning 🌊

RT @RadiantNuclear: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) Assistant Secretary Tim Walsh visited Radiant’s Oak Ridge, Tennessee, facility to see firsthand the new hub for American energy innovation. The walls are up and construction keeps advancing. The site is taking shape as Radiant builds toward the next generation of nuclear energy.

This is an exciting list. 2 draper founder venture firms.

It’s fitting that the late Bill Draper, a titan of VC, ended up at the top of this list, with @shv, and @TimDraper also made it into the top 10 with @DFJvc. I wouldn't be surprised if @AdamDraper joined them in future with @BoostVC. Truly a generational run.

This is remarkable. Jealous.

In a normal workday, an AngelList customer is investing into a startup every 10 minutes.

RT @brian_armstrong: Creating net-new gold with alchemy is becoming real. The lab grown diamond industry is growing rapidly. But you can’t invent anything that will increase Bitcoin supply. There will only ever be 21M.

RT @RyanBethencourt: These two mice are the exact same age, the human equivalent of 85. The mouse on the right was given an antibody blocking a single inflammatory protein (IL-11) starting in late middle age. Starting treatment at human-equivalent age 55: - Extended median lifespan by 25% in both males and females - Prevented grey hair, frailty, and muscle wasting - Cut late-life cancer deaths in half Three anti IL-11 antibodies (that might extend human lifespan) are already in human clinical trials right now.

50% of our 58 deals this year are Bio deals. The New Bio future is inevitable.

Someone should try this for poker in a casino.

This guy used Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, AI, and a MacBook to cheat at chess game.

RT @BraytonKey: If Dog tech becomes the next $T market, @BoostVC is well prepared. Invested in: - @colossal: owns Warhound - @dognosis: cancer sniffing dogs - @loyalfordogs: longevity for dogs - @treat_therapy: clinical research for dogs - Snout: insurance for dogs - Elita: data layer for dogs

Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.

Yesterday I had a good day chatting with the @icarusjourney team, and then jumped over to @UCLA to support the Draper UCLA pitch competition! With the family! @BillyDraper @JesseDraper and @TimDraper Fun Day. A lot of things going on in LA!

RT @akadogluk: Ok, multiple people have pinged me with warhound and I obviously have thoughts that I feel like unleashing so here goes Maximally charitable ones first (= what their marketing leans on) - 1. We are already doing genetic engineering with dogs, albeit crudely and slowly, and we do not do it with dog welfare in mind. The pug gasping for air with a nose fashioned to be cute, the inbred golden with 2.5x cancer mortality, the dachshund whose short legs come with 50x odds for intervertebral disc disease, there is no patting ourselves on the back with the status-quo here. 2. K9 units are already a thing and they send dogs out in dangerous situations like sniffing for explosives and dropping out of choppers, with a cottage-industry of small players building ear/eye protection and other equipment. But there's a huge gap between what human soldiers get vs dogs, and it's hard to argue against balancing this out. Thoughts on the business - 3. When @Itamar_Bitan and I ran the numbers, we estimated total budget of K9 units globally to be around a billion, incl everything (dogs, people, equipment etc). 1.2B val implies at least a 10x higher multiplier, which makes me curious on the story here. Personal security is the obvious one, and perhaps K9 units take bigger bites out of budgets with good ways to deploy capital. The funner version is scaling plays like sniffing out screwworms, gen biosecurity shield, gas leaks and all the other olfactory needle-in-haystack problems. Maybe an eventual consumer play with designer pets. 4. This seems like a classic 2026 kingmaker-VC move, a phenomenal team to bet on, and ex-Palantir CEO/In-Q-Tel (CIA VC) backing + main buyer being US govt. I'd be curious how the geopolitics plays out though, and it leaving room for the underdogs (EU/Asia). Less charitable thoughts - 5. Do you optimize for your german shepherd to be healthier, or to be more aggressive/fierce/stronger? There are always trade-offs and I'm not sure I see the incentives to keep the dog's health/welfare at the forefront 6. Same q but on drawing a line on the body when it comes to tech. There are already companies wanting to drill holes in dogs and implant electrodes. Where are the incentives to not do this (except the ones where we still don't know how to do this safely ofc) Philosophical parting-barks - 6. I think it's wise to be thoughtful about how the line between dogs being companions (subjects) vs tools (objects) can easily be blurred and modulated. E.g. I usually correct people when they describe @dognosis as "using dogs to sniff out cancer" to "working with dogs" and I'm not trying to be pedantic, I genuinely think that it's an important difference worth emphasising. As usual, Haraway says it better. At a time where we're trying to figure out what aligning different intelligences entails, it's worth paying closer attention to how we work with our best friends

RT @CollinRugg: Warhound, a defense‑tech startup founded by Palmer Luckey and Ben Lamm, has raised $200 million in seed funding to genetically engineer war dogs for the U.S. military. Lamm is responsible for the de-extinction of the dire wolf which died out ~10,000 years ago. Warhound will find top dogs and then biobank their genetic material before cloning the proven dogs. The company will take the cell lines for top breeds like Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd before editing the genes to make the dogs perform better and improve “things like speed and agility or enhance olfactory sensors for bomb sniffing and whatnot.” Luckey’s Anduril will supply the dogs with advanced body armor, ear coverings, and other military technology like EagleEye, an artificial intelligence military helmet. Anduril is also reportedly working with META on battlefield augmented reality eyewear. Lamm says the genetically modified dogs with advanced equipment will not only make the dogs safer, but will also make the human handlers safer. The first Warhound puppies will reportedly soon be cloned and incubated and will be born in early 2027 and then will begin training.

RT @RadiantNuclear: The countdown to full power has started! Energy is prosperity, and the country needs more of it. Built on a production line, and delivered to a customer site. This is how energy American independence begins.

RT @iamgeographic: Making our movie with the Geo Method feels like playing with action figures as a kid, with a side of superintelligence.

Only nuclear company chosen by the Navy, Army and Air Force. @RadiantNuclear is America's Nuclear company.

The @USNavy has selected Radiant to deploy our Kaleidos microreactor at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana. With this selection, Radiant is now the only nuclear microreactor company with partnerships across the Army, Navy and Air Force. The Navy has more than 70 years of safe reactor operations. It wrote the playbook on reactor safety. Earning its confidence is powerful independent validation of Kaleidos. This milestone moves us closer to our goal: reliable, resilient nuclear power wherever the mission demands. Through our work with all three branches, we’re building a clear path from military deployment to nuclear energy at scale for government and commercial customers. Read more details here:

When a crime fighting super hero with the power of a spider pops up... we know where to look first.

NEW: An 8-year-old boy let a black widow bite him, hoping to become Spider-Man.

RT @mattgdean03: I am going to cure cancer

I’m so proud to be an investor in @RadiantNuclear

We can’t say much yet, but Monday is going to be a good day.