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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Drew Volpe's investing connections

24 Investors

Connected to Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Evan Tana (Script Capital), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), and 21 other investors on Signal.

Networks Drew is a member of

Harvard University Network

254 CONNECTIONS

Highland Capital Partners Network

14 CONNECTIONS

MassChallenge Network

13 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

First Star Ventures Managing Partner

Investment Range

$100K - $1M

Sweet Spot

$500K

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$25M

Drew Volpe's Investments On Record (29)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
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), Matt Fates (Innospark Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures)
Blumen Systems	SeedApr 2023$1M	$1M
Co-investors: Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures), Semil Shah (Haystack), 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), Karl Kerksiek (Endeavor8)
Path (fka ScholarMe)	SeedSep 2021
Co-investors: Eugene Zhang (TSVC Capital), Iris Quan (TSVC Capital), Brandon Hoffman (Sunset Ventures)
Kanary	Pre SeedMar 2021$900K	$900K
Co-investors: Liz Wessel (First Round Capital), Tom Preston-Werner (Preston-Werner Ventures)
Skynet Labs	SeedSep 2020$3M SeedSep 2016$750K	$7.9M
Co-investors: Bill Liao (SOSV), Xiaolai Li (INBlockchain), Salil Deshpande (Uncorrelated Ventures)
On Deck	Series AFeb 2020	$20M
Co-investors: Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Charlie Feng, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Scott Belsky, Elad Gil, Adam D'Angelo, Anthony Pompliano, Dylan Field, Julia DeWahl, Andy Coravos, Tonio DeSorrento

Drew Volpe's Media (1)

Deep tech VC First Star plots a $40M third fund

techcrunch.com

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