First Star Ventures

First Star Ventures First Star Ventures was founded in 2014 by Drew Volpe (Harvard CS, former VP of Product at Semantic Machines, ex-Endeca which sold to Oracle for $1.1B) and Millie Liu (MIT, ex-APT which sold to Mastercard for $600M, co-founded Infervision). Both bring serious operator credentials. The thesis is "computing x real-world". techbio, climate, robotics, and industrial infrastructure. The technical bar is distinctive: the firm won't invest if "3 to 5 Google engineers could quit and