Jake Adler's Pilgrim raises $25M to detect airborne biological threats
Pilgrim told the WSJ its $25M seed round valued the Redwood City startup at $150M; Anthropic researchers Logan Graham and Sholto Douglas invested personally.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: The Wall Street Journal
Why it matters
Pilgrim is turning concern about biological threats into a hardware and procurement bet. Its $150 million reported valuation reflects investor confidence; Argus will still need to prove it can detect threats dependably in the field and meet the demands of government buyers.
Jake Adler's Pilgrim raised $25 million in a seed round to develop hardware for detecting biological threats in the air, bringing two Anthropic researchers into the investor group as individuals. The WSJ reported that the round valued the Redwood City, California, startup at $150 million, according to Pilgrim.…
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