Building @BlackwingVC • Investing in America's future (@ValarAtomics, @Atomic_Inc, @AskariDefense) • Optimistic Midwest farm boy • Soli Deo Gloria
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Cutting the honeymoon short for this.
Landing in Detroit shortly.
The industrial renaissance cannot be stopped.
feeling cute might delete soon but if you're in detroit and want to come to the ribbon cutting of atomic factory 002 tomorrow morning, hit this luma before all the seats are gone luma.com/kkmsjpas
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America is so back.
In one week the founders rebuilding American industry will be in Detroit.
Join us and @BlackwingVC for The Assembly, an evening we're co-hosting after Day 1 of @reindsummit for founders and investors across manufacturing, defense, energy, robotics, aerospace, infrastructure, and industrial software.
Connect and build relationships that move our country forward.
Tuesday, June 16. 6-9 ETpm. Detroit.
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America’s industrial renaissance is underway.
Join @BlackwingVC and @Initialized for The Assembly, an evening gathering of the founders and builders driving it forward after @reindsummit.
Detroit. Tuesday, June 16.
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Grateful to Initialized Capital, Firestorm, and CSC Leasing for helping bring The Assembly to life.
See you in Detroit.
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Patriots, join Jakob and his mission.
May 28
🇺🇸 We're hiring our first full-time team member in the Gundo at @DiscipulusVent
Founding Investor: work directly with me on sourcing, picking companies, running Cohorts, and pitching LPs.
Front row seat to building the best hardtech program in the world.
If you care about American reindustrialization, apply today (link JD in thread).
El Segundo, CA. In person.
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May 2
🚨 TWITTER REQUEST 🚨
Does anyone have a Riegl VUX-820-G or Yellowscan Navigator LiDAR (or have a path to one)? Will pay good money to borrow or buy. Need ASAP.
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May 1
Askari has been selected as a semifinalist in the xTech|Adaptive Strike competition.
We’re heading to the National Training Center to participate in the Soldier Exercise, where our interceptors will be put into a realistic training environment alongside the operators they’re built for.
Our focus is not on complexity, but on capability that delivers when it counts. We’re building a dismounted counter-UAS solution that is quick to employ, intuitive to use, and effective against small UAS threats in close-range scenarios.
We appreciate the opportunity to work with the U.S. Army, ASA(ALT), and others pushing practical capabilities forward.
Looking forward to the next phase.
#AskariDefense #CounterUAS #ArmyFUZE #xTech #ArmyPIT #ArmyInnovation
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Apr 27
APPLICATION EXTENDED: Applications for the Fall Fellowship now close on May 3 at 11:59pm. 🚨
Get your career in DC started in mere months with a $3,250/month signing bonus, benefits & networking funds. 👀
Apply by Sunday → americanmoment.org/fellowshi…
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The boys at @AskariDefense are already on it
Apr 27
Counter-Swarm Defense
@bosmeny
A Patriot missile costs $3 million. An FPV drone costs $500. All the cost advantage lies with the attackers, and the next wave isn't one drone, it's swarms.
Drone defense is starting to look less like operating a weapon and more like running a real-time distributed system. We want to fund founders building the counter-swarm stack.
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If Augustus cuts his hair, it’s over.
Rainmaker’s @ADoricko says 10x’ing cloud seeding operations in Utah could accelerate refilling the Great Salt Lake, and he’s aiming to bring the Colorado River back to 1920 levels by 2031:
"We have operations for the Bear River, which is the primary tributary into the Great Salt Lake right now. If we were to 10x our operations, we could radically accelerate the timeline for reversing the eradication of, and refilling, the lake."
"We might get to see some participation at the federal level in cloud seeding because it's the only way to produce net-new water for the lake. That's an interesting project not just because the lake is a piece of national American heritage, not just because it's something that the ski industry in Utah depends on, not just because if the lake aridifies you end up with toxic arsenic getting kicked up like in the Salton Sea, but also it's the training wheels for what an interstate weather modification project would look like for the Colorado River."
"Rainmaker's goal, to call a shot publicly, is to get the Colorado River back to its 1920 supply levels by 2031. That will mean about 8 million more acre-feet of water down. A lot of that will come from cloud seeding, and some of it will come from other technologies we're looking at right now."
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Apr 27
Mankind has always been at the mercy of the weather.
No longer.
Rainmaker is the first company in history to routinely, unambiguously, modify the weather.
Last quarter, we produced >143MM gallons of unambiguously man-made precipitation.
Here’s how we do it 🧵
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Founders building in this space, hit us up!
Apr 24
The US classified power transformers, switchgear, cables and substations as essential to national defense on April 20 under Section 303 of the Defense Production Act. The classification matters because the country imports 82% of its large power transformers, with lead times of 2 to 4 years, while 7 GW of generation projects are stalled awaiting grid connection. Three transformer factories are under construction in Texas, Alabama and Georgia, and Section 303 now authorizes DOE to make direct purchases and financial commitments to expand domestic production.
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Apr 21
Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows!
WHO ARE THEY?
Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd
Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways.
Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc
Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil.
Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky
EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores.
Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta
Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy.
Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka
Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage.
Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO
Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones.
Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n
Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet.
Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey
Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent.
Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493
Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments.
Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh
The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism.
Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm
Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.
Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang
Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.
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Apr 17
The @DiscipulusVent Spring Cohort just wrapped up in the 'Gundo. 🇺🇸
Joined by @PalmerLuckey, @isaiah_p_taylor, @ADoricko & more throughout the week.
10 hardtech founders building for the American Interest. Companies below 🧵👇
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We are proud to back Askari in their $1.7M pre-seed.
Askari is helping redefine how we protect the American warfighter.
Apr 9
Askari has been building with the backing of a $1.7M pre-seed round.
This early support has enabled rapid development, testing, and the foundation for what comes next.
We’re grateful for the partners who believed early, including @KnollVentures, @BrickyardVC, @BlackwingVC, Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc., @glangley, @OverlineVC, and Teamworthy Ventures. Now we’re stepping forward and moving faster.
#AskariDefense
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