Jake Cacciapaglia
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Jake Cacciapaglia
@jakecacci
Family man. Ready to run long. Planting biotech-enhanced trees @living_carbon. Previously @SanoGenetics, @NebulaGenomics, @Runkeeper (acq. by @ASICS).






1/ I left OpenAI 3 years ago to pursue a challenge equally as important as AGI: climate change. While we’re still short of ChatGPTree, @living_carbon has developed climate-smart trees, planted 200K+ trees & is creating a playbook for frontier tech in new markets:🧵👇






“We’ve had people tell us it’s impossible,” Maddie Hall said of Living Carbon’s dream to deploy genetic engineering on behalf of the climate. But she and her colleagues have also found believers — enough to invest $36 million in the four-year-old company. nyti.ms/3S3HnuA

Building anything is hard. Building a startup is very hard. Building a startup to help solve a big global challenge is very very hard. Building a startup to help solve a big global challenge, bridging legacy systems to new ones is very very very hard. But, we gotta do it.

Really proud of the team we've built at Pillar and the values we share. We'd love to hear from you if you think you're the right person to join our team as an investor. pillar.vc/careers/invest…


Excited to publicly share our newest round of funding. Grateful for the partnership of such incredible heavy-hitting climate investors and cannot wait for what is to come in 2023. We're hiring for many roles and need to grow our team to hit our carbon removal goals!











