First Spark Ventures, LLC
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First Spark Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in deep tech startups. It focuses on advanced compute, digital biology and biotech, and cyber-physical systems, typically at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages.
First Spark Ventures, LLC is a venture capital firm headquartered in United States. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in advanced Compute, digital Biology & Biotech and CyberPhysical Systems.
“First Spark Ventures is a Deep Tech venture capital fund investing in breakthrough technologies that make the world healthier, safer, and more productive.”
— First Spark Ventures, LLC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- United States
- Sectors
- Advanced Compute, Digital Biology & Biotech, CyberPhysical Systems
Team, as First Spark Ventures, LLC publishes it
- Manish Kothari, Ph.D. Founding Managing Partner
- Aaron Sisto, Ph.D. Partner
- Peter Olcott, Ph.D. Principal
- Todd Meister Founding General Partner
- Eric Schmidt, Ph.D. Strategic Advisor & Founding Non-Managing Partner
- Peter Richards Founding General Partner
- Gal Treger General Partner
- Jennifer Wu Principal
- Danny Chen General Partner, First Spark Opportunities
Names and roles exactly as listed on firstsparkventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 79 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Valo Ventures 3 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com, inlyteenergy.com
- BOLD Capital Partners 2 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com
- Collective Asset Management, LLC 2 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com
- DCVC 2 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com
- First Round Capital 2 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com
- SteelSky Ventures 2 shared companies: fortune.com, femtechinsider.com
- Wayfinder Ventures Management, L.L.C. 2 shared companies: fortune.com, spacenews.com
- Beyond Earth Ventures 2 shared companies: spacenews.com, xonaspace.com
- Lockheed Martin Ventures 2 shared companies: latentai.com, xonaspace.com
- 2048 Ventures 1 shared company: fortune.com
and 69 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page First Spark Ventures, LLC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.firstsparkventures.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, people, status
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