1789 investment and federal-award chronology

{
  "_id": "starintel:observation:1789-investment-award-chronology",
  "assessment": {
    "caveats": [
      "Announcement dates may differ from private signing or closing dates.",
      "Chronology alone neither proves nor disproves influence."
    ],
    "confidence": 0.94,
    "relevance": 1.0
  },
  "data": {
    "method": "Comparison of dated corporate financing announcements, award announcements and federal financing release",
    "observation_type": "investment_award_chronology",
    "observed_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
    "observer_id": "starintel:actor:gpt-5-6-thinking",
    "subject_id": "starintel:org:1789-capital",
    "value": {
      "cerebras": {
        "award_date": "2025-04-01",
        "investment_announcement_date": "2025-09-30",
        "sequence": "award_before_investment"
      },
      "firehawk": {
        "award_date": "2025-08-25",
        "investment_announcement_date": "2025-09-24",
        "sequence": "award_before_investment"
      },
      "psiquantum": {
        "award_date": "2025-04-01",
        "investment_announcement_date": "2025-09-10",
        "sequence": "award_before_investment"
      },
      "vulcan": {
        "conditional_loan_announcement_date": "2025-11-21",
        "investment_round_date": "2025-08-11",
        "sequence": "investment_before_conditional_financing",
        "stake": "undisclosed"
      }
    }
  },
  "dataset": "palantir-deep-dive-2026-07-25",
  "date_added": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
  "date_updated": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
  "dtype": "observation",
  "evidence": [],
  "schema_version": "0.9.0",
  "sources": [
    {
      "credibility": 0.98,
      "kind": "corporate_primary",
      "publisher": "Cerebras Systems",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
      "title": "Cerebras Systems Raises $1.1 Billion Series G",
      "url": "https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/series-g"
    },
    {
      "credibility": 0.98,
      "kind": "corporate_primary",
      "publisher": "PsiQuantum",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
      "title": "PsiQuantum Raises $1 Billion Series E",
      "url": "https://www.psiquantum.com/news-import/psiquantum-1b-fundraise"
    },
    {
      "credibility": 0.98,
      "kind": "corporate_primary",
      "publisher": "Firehawk Aerospace",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
      "title": "Firehawk Oversubscribes $60M Investment Round",
      "url": "https://firehawkaerospace.com/news/firehawk-oversubscribes-60m-investment-round-and-gains-a-strategic-european-investor-strengthens-allied-defense-supply-chain-resilience/"
    },
    {
      "credibility": 0.91,
      "kind": "corporate_primary",
      "publisher": "Vulcan Elements LinkedIn",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
      "title": "Vulcan Elements Series A investor announcement",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vulcan-elements_exclusive-rare-earth-magnet-maker-raises-activity-7360630907000496128-YFZN"
    },
    {
      "credibility": 0.99,
      "kind": "government_primary",
      "publisher": "U.S. Department of War",
      "retrieved_at": "2026-07-26T01:45:00Z",
      "title": "Office of Strategic Capital conditional loan commitment",
      "url": "https://www.war.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/4339788/office-of-strategic-capital-agrees-to-joint-700m-conditional-loan-commitment-wi/"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Three disclosed 1789 investment announcements followed cited federal awards; Vulcan investment preceded its conditional federal financing.",
  "title": "1789 investment and federal-award chronology",
  "version": 1
}