Pick of the Week - August 17, 2025

Nicholas Tommarello is the Founder and CEO of Wefunder, a pioneering crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to invest in startups. He co-founded Wefunder in 2012, leveraging provisions from the 2012 JOBS Act to enable unaccredited investors to purchase equity in early-stage companies, thereby democratizing access to investment opportunities that were traditionally available only to wealthy individuals.

Tommarello holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Babson College and participated in the prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator in 2013.

Anduril
Last public valuation: $30.5 billion

• Defense tech has become an important pre-IPO sector, and Anduril is the leading private defense tech startup

• The current geopolitical situation has made it such that America cannot afford to ignore its defense needs

• We need to manufacture enough drones and similar products to maintain peace and prosperity

• It is easy to see how Anduril could take a SpaceX-like approach to defense manufacturing

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