Anthropic red team lead backs Pilgrim's $25M seed for airborne Ebola detection
zetalyrae · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team lead Logan Graham and Sholto Douglas personally invested in biodefense startup Pilgrim's $25M seed at a $150M valuation. Key facts:
- Argus: a 50-pound tripod device that samples air and runs genomic sequencing to detect Ebola, anthrax and other threats
- CDC agreement in place; nationwide deployment has begun
- Founder Jake Adler, 22, a Thiel Fellow who once tested his own wound dressing by cutting holes in his leg
- He calls bioweapons humanity's largest existential threat and aims to make Pilgrim a biodefense contractor
Quoter zetalyrae notes how vulnerable we remain via biology, directly and through crop pathogens.
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