First Star Ventures — Pre-Seed & Seed VC Firm ($500K–$1.0M Checks)
First Star Ventures is a Pre-Seed, Seed venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States investing in Other, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $500K–$1.0M checks and has 13 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $500K–$1.0M
- Portfolio
- 13 companies on record
- Partners
- 4 listed
- AUM
- $75M
- Stage
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Sectors
- Other, AI / ML
- HQ
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Last verified: 2026-09-08
Pre-Seed, Seed
$500K – $1.0M
$75M
13+ companies
4 partners
Investment Thesis
First Star backs visionary, research-driven founders inventing a better future by riding new computing waves — from robotics and spatial intelligence to computational biology and AI — focusing on foundational hard-tech at the pre-seed stage.
How First Star Ventures invests
First Star Ventures is a vc firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The firm invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages, with a focus on Other, AI / ML.
First Star Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$1.0M per investment, backed by approximately $75M in assets under management.
First Star Ventures has backed 13 companies in our records, including Morpheus Labs, Dexai Robotics, Semantic Machines.
Partners & Team
Industry Focus
Invests In
Portfolio Companies (13)
Other
Morpheus Labs
Dexai Robotics
Semantic Machines
Locately
Endeca Technologies
APT
Infervision
Tempo
Symphony Commerce
Oort
- •Raising at Pre-Seed, Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in Other, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $500K – $1.0M check.
- •cold outreach ok
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Drew Volpe, Founder.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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