First Star Ventures is a pre-seed venture capital fund based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that backs visionary research-driven founders and engineers working on frontier technologies including GenAI, robotics, biotechnology, cybersecurity, and energy.
They made 2 investments in the last 12 months. Their most common stage is seed (57% of deals). Average disclosed round size is $15.6M (across 27 rounds with reported amounts).
Portfolio
24
Fund Size
$40M
Top Stage
Seed
Last 12 Mo
2
Team
Portfolio Breakdown
Stage Distribution
Sector Distribution
Investment Activity
DealsAvg Round Size
Portfolio
30 investments
| Company | Round | Amount | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
 Zanskar | Series C | $115M | Jan 2026 |
 Zanskar | Series C | $115M | Jan 2026 |
 Extellis | Unknown | $6.8M | Jan 2025 |
 Bedrock Energy | Seed | $8.5M | Oct 2023 |
 Robigo | Seed | $10M | May 2023 |
 Genialis | Series A | $13M | Mar 2023 |
 Oort | Series A | $11.5M | Oct 2022 |
| CChiselstrike | Seed | $7M | Jul 2022 |
 FYTO | Series A | $15M | Jul 2022 |
 VistaPath | Seed | $4M | Jun 2022 |
| CChiselstrike | Seed | $7M | Jan 2022 |
 EnPowered | Seed | $3.4M | Feb 2020 |
| EnPowered | Seed | $10.3M | Jan 2020 |
| WWinterLight Labs | Series A | — | Nov 2019 |
 Plus One Robotics | Series A | $8.3M | Nov 2018 |
| Genialis | Seed | $2.3M | Jan 2017 |
| FFeature Labs | Seed | $1.5M | Jan 2017 |
 Worthy | Series B | $8M | Oct 2015 |
 Phaseshift Technologies | Seed | $3M | — |
 Salient | Seed | — | — |
 Bot Auto | Series A | $20M | — |
| Bot Auto | Seed | $20M | — |
 Enzymit | Series A | $10M | — |
 Tranquil Data | Seed | $1.8M | — |
 iOrgan Bio | Unknown | $2M | — |
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Top Co-Investors
Wireframe Ventures4 shared
Innospark Ventures3 shared
Draper Associates3 shared
Cantos2 shared
Toba Capital2 shared
Redalpine2 shared
Inovia Capital2 shared
Golden Ventures2 shared
Version One Ventures2 shared
Powerhouse Ventures2 shared
Linear Capital2 shared
EnvisionX Capital2 shared
UpHonest Capital2 shared
Cherubic Ventures2 shared
Welight Capital2 shared
Blumberg Capital2 shared
Essence VC2 shared
Norwest Venture Partners2 shared
Mango Capital2 shared
Union Square Ventures2 shared
Last updated: 20 October 2026