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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23 Investors

Connected to Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Evan Tana (Script Capital), Erik Torenberg (Village Global), and 20 other investors on Signal.

Networks Drew is a member of
Harvard University Network
252 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
37
Current Fund Size
$25M

Drew Volpe is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

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Drew Volpe's Investments On Record (29)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Blumen Systems
Pre SeedApr 2023$1M
$1M
Co-investors: Leo Polovets (Susa Ventures), Varun Gupta (Caffeinated Capital), Semil Shah (Haystack)
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: 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)
Phaseshift Technologies
Pre SeedMay 2020$580K
$580K
Co-investors: Elizabeth Yin (Hustle Fund), Millie Liu Liu (First Star Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures)
On Deck
Series AFeb 2020
$20M
Co-investors: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Charles Hudson (Precursor Ventures), Guimar Vaca Sittic (FJ Labs), Chamath Palihapitiya (Social Capital), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Avichal Garg (Electric Capital), Fred Ehrsam (Paradigm), Ali Tamaseb (DCVC (Data Collective)), Turner Novak (Banana Capital), Julia Lipton (Awesome People Ventures), Aidan Fitzpatrick, Jen Rubio Butterfield, Scott Belsky, Elad Gil, Adam D'Angelo, Anthony Pompliano, Dylan Field, Charlie Feng, Julia DeWahl, Andy Coravos, Tonio DeSorrento

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