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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 79 co-investors found.
- 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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