Optimistic Founder of @BoostVC // Boost VC does PreSeed. Board Member @RadiantNuclear and @Skybound
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Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
Our CEO, @DougBernauer, met with Michael Kratsios (@mkratsios47), Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House.
The future of American energy independence is nuclear. 🇺🇸
This is a historic moment for productizing nuclear energy.
Radiant has secured U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) approval of its Documented Safety Analysis for Kaleidos, making it the only microreactor to be reviewed and approved by the DOE for full power operations.
The approval is not just for criticality, but for Radiant’s full power, full temperature testing at the Idaho National Laboratory. Radiant will test the complete reactor system using the same design it will manufacture at scale.
Next up in the path to commercialization: Readiness Review.
Read more here 🔗 radiantnuclear.com/news/radi…
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
Radiant has secured U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) approval of its Documented Safety Analysis for Kaleidos, making it the only microreactor to be reviewed and approved by the DOE for full power operations.
The approval is not just for criticality, but for Radiant’s full power, full temperature testing at the Idaho National Laboratory. Radiant will test the complete reactor system using the same design it will manufacture at scale.
Next up in the path to commercialization: Readiness Review.
Read more here 🔗 radiantnuclear.com/news/radi…
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
Our team is doing everything we can to support in the current situation, including blocking sends to compromised wallets. We've also reached out to Binance to offer our help.
Moments like this call for the industry to work together. Openly sharing any useful information and helping to protect customers should come first, regardless of which platform they use. If you can do anything to help, please do!
Crypto has been through many tough times, and has always come out stronger on the other side. This won’t be any different.
RIP professor X.
Patrick Stewart, who will be remembered most for his roles as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and as Professor Charles Xavier in the “X-Men” films, has died at 86.
variety.com/2026/tv/news/pat…
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
BREAKING: For the first time in American history, the Department of Energy has approved a commercial nuclear microreactor's safety analysis for full-power operations.
LA-based Radiant secured the approval, with testing planned at Idaho National Laboratory.
ALT Source: Radiant Rendering
Boost has a new thesis:
“The human body is a software problem”
this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now.
it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
the last 6 months alone:
- a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
- a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
- a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
- a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
- retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
- an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
- a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
- an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
- a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
- human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
stick around, it's going to get weird
bio/acc
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.
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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 🌊
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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.
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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.
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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.
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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.
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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!
Adam Draper ⏻ retweeted
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
