A year after CEO Jamie Dimon announced a 10-year, $1.5 trillion plan to provide traditional financing to industries critical to economic and national security, JPMorgan said its Security and Resiliency Initiative had financed $230 billion of projects in its first year. The bank is directly investing $10 billion in US-based startups, with at least half of the initial commitment deployed ten months after hiring Todd Combs from Berkshire Hathaway to oversee the investments. Among the disclosed deals, JPMorgan co-led a $1.4 billion funding round for Hadrian, which builds automated defense and aerospace factories, and took part in a $1 billion round for Castelion, maker of long-range hypersonic Blackbeard missiles. An early investment was in Perpetua Resources' Stibnite Gold Project in Idaho, which mines antimony, a critical military material for which the US relies on China for two-thirds of its oxide supply, according to the USGS.
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