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Story: Logan and Jake Paul’s Anti Fund Invests in Polymarket, OpenAI, and Anduril

By Steven Anderson

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Visits to the Treasury and the Pentagon. What's made this more than just a celebrity-investing story is where the brothers have been…

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Flock, Kela, and the Silence Problem. Flock is probably the most contentious piece of the Anti Fund portfolio right now.

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Logan and Jake Paul aren't just fighting on YouTube anymore. Their venture capital vehicle, Anti Fund, has quietly built positions in some of the most politically charged sectors…

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The portfolio is pretty striking when you lay it out. Anduril, the defense tech firm known for autonomous weapons systems.

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What we do know: Jake Paul was seen publicly with members of the Trump administration, and the backlash came fast.

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Logan, who runs the popular podcast Impaulsive, hasn't addressed it at all. He's stayed quiet on the portfolio controversies, which is probably a deliberate call but doesn't…

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The brother who did get publicly named in a separate controversy is Logan, tied to allegations around a $16 million Pokémon card sale.

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Flock is probably the most contentious piece of the Anti Fund portfolio right now. The company's surveillance camera technology has drawn sharp criticism from YouTubers and…

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More context: Curaçao Gaming Authority Hack Exposes Sensitive Data of Crypto Casino Operators

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And it's not just Flock. Kela Technologies — the Israeli defense contractor integrating commercial and military systems — has sparked a separate wave of criticism, mostly focused…

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That's the pattern, basically. Invest in something contentious, say nothing, move on. Whether that's a calculated strategy or just avoidance is hard to say from the outside.

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Defense investing has gotten crowded lately, especially among tech-adjacent money. Anduril in particular has become almost a status symbol for a certain kind of investor who…

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Polymarket is the crypto angle worth watching here. It's a decentralized prediction market, meaning it runs on blockchain infrastructure and lets users trade on the outcomes of…

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Their discussions with Treasury Secretary Bessent and Vice President JD Vance — if those meetings happened as reported — haven't been disclosed in any meaningful way.

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