Investing Profile

Drew Volpe(638)

VCFounderInvestorEngineering Operator
Managing Partner at First Star (fka Procyon Ventures)
firststar.vcBoston, Massachusetts
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$100K - $1M
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CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
iOrganBio
SeedOct 2025$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Stephen Chambers (SOSV)
Phaseshift Technologies
SeedOct 2024$3M
Pre SeedMay 2020$580K
$3.6M
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Millie Liu Liu (First Star Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Matt Fates (Innospark Ventures)
SaolaAI
Pre SeedSep 2023
Blumen Systems, Inc.
SeedApr 2023$2M
$2M
Co-investors: Varun Gupta (Caffeinated Capital)
Genialis
Series AMar 2023$13M
SeedNov 2017$2M
$15M
Robigo
SeedFeb 2023$7M
Pre SeedNov 2021$1M
$15M
Co-investors: Joshua Posamentier (Congruent Ventures), Nicholas Adeyi (Congruent Ventures), Karl Kerksiek (Endeavor8)
Path
SeedSep 2021
$71M
Co-investors: Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Tod Francis (Shasta Ventures), Scott Raney (Redpoint Ventures), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Matt Cohler (Benchmark), Don Dodge (Google Ventures), Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Sam Lessin (Slow Ventures), Kent Goldman (First Round Capital), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Tom Conrad (Y Combinator), Iris Quan (TSVC Capital), Eugene Zhang (Moving Capital), Jason Calacanis (Uber), John Borthwick (Betaworks Ventures), Chris Kelly (Matrix Partners India), Maurice Werdegar (Western Technology Investment), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Gary Vaynerchuk (Twitter), Karl Jacob (Ingenious Media), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Marc Benioff, Joi Ito, Josh Spear, Dustin Moskovitz, Bill Raduchel, Mark Pincus
Kanary
Pre SeedMar 2021$900K
$900K
Co-investors: Liz Wessel (First Round Capital), Tom Preston-Werner (Preston-Werner Ventures)
New computing technologies (ML/AI, decentralization, sensor fusion, ...) applied to "traditional" industries, computational bio, decentralized services and governance.
Consumer, gaming, startups not in the US and Canada.
Managing Partner First Star (fka Procyon Ventures)2014 - Present
Mentor and Judge MassChallenge2010 - Present
Investor / Board Director BrinkPresent
Investor / Board Director EVERBLOOMPresent
Investor / Board Observer Tranquil DataPresent
Investor OortPresent
Investor Oort (now part of Cisco)Present
Investor Nomic BioPresent
Investor Scoot SciencePresent
Founding Investor SalientPresent
Founding Investor Salient PredictionsPresent
Investor MCJPresent
Investor Zanskar Geothermal & Minerals, Inc.Present
Investor ZanskarPresent
Investor TursoPresent
Investor ChiselStrike Inc.Present
Investor RobigoPresent
Investor VistapathPresent
Investor SaolaAIPresent
Investor iOrganBioPresent
Investor Romix BiosciencesPresent
Investor Zep AI (YC W24)Present
Founder / Managing Partner First Star VenturesPresent
Limited Partner MCJPresent
VP Product Development Semantic Machines2014 - 2015
EIR Highland Capital Partners2013 - 2013
co-founder and CTO Locately2008 - 2013
Director, Product Development Endeca Technologies2004 - 2008
Software Engineer Idiom2003 - 2004
Software Engineer Elytics2001 - 2002
Harvard University AB Computer Science
The Roxbury Latin School
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