Pilgrim Labs

Pilgrim Labs

AI-powered platform for product decision support

Overview

Pilgrim Labs builds an AI-powered platform for product teams to turn customer feedback into strategic product decisions. It connects with data sources like Slack, Zendesk, and Gong to collect customer input and research in one place, then uses artificial intelligence to identify customer needs, pain points, and opportunities. This helps teams prioritize features and shape their roadmaps based on actual user sentiment rather than just anecdotes. Compared with others, Pilgrim combines multiple data streams into a single, data-driven view and targets product managers, designers, researchers, and executives to align everyone around customer insights. The company aims to help teams create customer-centric products more efficiently by guiding development with structured, evidence-based analysis.

About Pilgrim Labs

Simplify's Rating
Why Pilgrim Labs is rated
C-
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated C on Growth Potential
Rated D+ on Differentiation

Industries

Data & Analytics

Enterprise Software

AI & Machine Learning

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$7.6M

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

2023

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Founded 2022 by Alex O'Donovan, John Darsee targeting PMs, designers.
  • Structured platform aligns product strategy with user expectations.
  • Assists executives in efficient customer-centric product development.

What critics are saying

  • Biotech Pilgrim dominates 'Pilgrim Labs' searches, diverts investors.
  • DoD contracts to biotech Pilgrim block AI firm's funding access.
  • Thiel-backed biotech Pilgrim renders AI platform uninvestable by 2027.

What makes Pilgrim Labs unique

  • Integrates Slack, Zendesk, Gong for centralized customer feedback.
  • AI analyzes data to identify needs, pain points, opportunities.
  • Enables data-driven feature prioritization over anecdotal evidence.

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Funding

Total Funding

$7.5M

Above

Industry Average

Funded Over

2 Rounds

Seed funding is usually the first official round after pre-seed, when a startup has a prototype or concept. It’s typically used to develop the product, test the market, and start building the team. Investors here are often angel investors or early-stage venture capitalists.
Seed Funding Comparison
Above Average

Industry standards

$3.3M
$2M
Netflix
$2.3M
Instacart
$3M
Robinhood
$4.3M
Pilgrim Labs

Company News

Business Insider
Aug 1st, 2025
Pilgrim raises $4.3M for biotech innovation

Jake Adler, the 21-year-old founder of Pilgrim, demonstrated his biotech startup's wound dressing, Kingsfoil, by cutting open his leg on camera. This bold move helped Pilgrim raise $4.3 million from investors, including Peter Thiel. Pilgrim aims to develop battlefield-ready biotech for military and civilian use. Kingsfoil, a clay-based hemostatic dressing, is undergoing further testing and aims for expedited FDA approval. The company is also developing other biotech products.

Pirate Wires
Jul 21st, 2025
Creating Supersoldiers and Curbing Biothreats

how pilgrim, and its 20-year-old founder, plan to rethink defensive biotech

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