This 21-year-old founder cut open his leg to show off his biotech. Then he raised $4.3 million from Peter Thiel and others.

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Pilgrim founder Jake Adler posing with lab equipment wearing a black hoodie.
Pilgrim founder Jake Adler in his startup's lab in Redwood City, Calif.

Pilgrim

Mark Zuckerberg and Palmer Luckey end their beef and partner to build extended reality tech for the US military

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Palmer Luckey (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)
Palmer Luckey (left) and Mark Zuckerberg (right)

Anduril

Defense tech startup Blue Halo makes lasers that shoot drones out of the sky. This is how it got the Army to buy them.

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Blue Halo HQ
Blue Halo HQ

Blue Halo

Palmer Luckey's start-up Anduril just proved it can challenge legacy defense contractors and win

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Palmer Luckey
Anduril's founder, Palmer Luckey.

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