Investing Profile

Drew Volpe(638)

VCFounderInvestorEngineering Operator
Investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing a better future.
firststar.vcBoston, Massachusetts
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25 Investors

Connected to Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Evan Tana (122 WEST VENTURES), Erik Torenberg (Andreessen Horowitz), and 22 other investors on Signal.

Networks Drew is a member of
Harvard University Network
402 CONNECTIONS
MassChallenge Network
21 CONNECTIONS
Highland Capital Partners Network
19 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
First Star Ventures Managing Partner
Investment Range
$100K - $1M
Sweet Spot
$500K
Investments On Record
40
Current Fund Size
$25M

Drew Volpe is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Drew Volpe's Investments On Record (31)

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
SeedApr 2023$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Semil Shah (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Varun Gupta (Caffeinated Capital), Leo Polovets (Humba Ventures)
Genialis
Series AMar 2023$13M
SeedNov 2017$2M
$15M
Robigo
SeedFeb 2023$7M
Pre SeedNov 2021$1M
$15M
Co-investors: Joshua Posamentier (Congruent Ventures), Karl Kerksiek (Endeavor8)
Path
SeedSep 2021
$71M
Co-investors: Scott Raney (Redpoint Ventures), Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Tod Francis (Shasta Ventures), Satish Dharmaraj (Redpoint Ventures), Steve Anderson (Baseline Ventures), Kevin Rose (True Ventures), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Kent Goldman (First Round Capital), Karl Jacob (Loansnap), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Eugene Zhang (TSVC Capital), John Borthwick (Betaworks Ventures), Maurice Werdegar (Western Technology Investment), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Matt Cohler (KKR & Co. Inc.), Don Dodge (Cyfrin), Ashton Kutcher (Sound Ventures), Gary Vaynerchuk (VCR Group), Jake Brukhman (CoinFund), Paul Buchheit (Y Combinator), Marc Benioff, Joi Ito, Dustin Moskovitz, Josh Spear, Mark Pincus, Bill Raduchel, Chris Kelly
Kanary
Pre SeedMar 2021$900K
$900K
Co-investors: Alex Iskold (2048 Ventures), Liz Wessel (First Round Capital)

most interested in

New computing technologies (ML/AI, decentralization, sensor fusion, ...) applied to "traditional" industries, computational bio, decentralized services and governance.

not interested in

Consumer, gaming, startups not in the US and Canada.

Drew Volpe's Experience

Managing Partner First Star (fka Procyon Ventures)2014 - Present
Mentor and Judge MassChallenge2010 - Present
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

Drew Volpe's Education

Harvard University AB Computer Science
The Roxbury Latin School