First Star Ventures

Software Engineering Intelligence Platform that helps organizations effectively manage engineering teams, improve operational efficiency, and align engineering work with business outcomes.

Zanskar is an AI-native geothermal energy company focused on unlocking geothermal resources using data and advanced technologies to deliver affordable, carbon-free energy.

Enzymit is pioneering a new era of biomanufacturing through the creation of novel enzymes that address unmet market needs, focusing on cell-free production methods that are faster, simpler, cost-effective, and sustainable.

Nomic.bio offers affordable and flexible proteomics solutions, including the Omni 1000 platform that quantifies 1000 informative proteins with high fidelity. Their nELISA technology revolutionizes multiplexed immunoassays, enabling high-throughput protein profiling.

Salient Predictions provides AI-powered weather forecasts and analytics, leveraging machine learning and deep neural networks to deliver accurate predictions from daily to yearly timeframes, with applications in various industries including agriculture, energy, and finance.

Scoot Science provides the SeaState platform, which transforms environmental, fish inventory, and operations data into site-specific ocean forecasts and fish health insights for fish farms.

EnPowered helps you transform your electricity use into new revenue and bottom-line savings. Our expert guidance and AI-assisted technology make participation in energy market programs easy without disrupting your core revenue-generating operations.

Gradient Technologies offers a passwordless multi-factor authentication (MFA) solution that eliminates traditional authentication methods, providing a frictionless user experience while enhancing security against credential-based cyberattacks.

Turso is the lightweight database that scales to millions of instances, designed for the agentic future. It serves as a complete SQLite drop-in replacement, built to support AI agents and intelligent applications by deploying databases everywhere, including servers, browsers, and devices.

VistaPath is modernizing pathology labs using computer vision and artificial intelligence. They provide clients with significant quality, workflow, and strategic benefits with the overall goal of delivering improved results for pathologists, clinicians, and patients. The Sentinel is the company’s first product.

Native Voice Studios develops AI companions based on fully licensed characters, distributing them on various devices to foster engagement and entertainment. They focus on creating compliant, high-quality AI interactions.

Kanary is a web app designed for personal data removal, offering self-guided and fully-managed services to help users remove their personal information from data brokers and the internet.

An aggressive techno-optimist investor that tolerates ~70% failure to back capital-intensive, science-heavy climate, healthcare and deep-tech bets, embracing extreme technical risk and non-consensus opportunities. Led by Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla, the firm explicitly optimizes for black swan outcomes and actively seeks opportunities that appear crazy to most of the market through non-consensus thinking.

Invests at seed and early stages in purpose-driven, trailblazing entrepreneurs with unique ideas capable of reinventing entire industries. Focuses on companies founded by mission-driven founders building transformative technologies.

Alumni Ventures built a "network-powered" retail VC platform that aggregates thousands of accredited individuals into professionally managed funds, allowing people to write checks as low as ~$10k while accessing large, diversified venture portfolios—making it America's largest VC firm for individual investors. The firm runs a deliberately non-controlling, co-investor-only strategy where it does not lead rounds, set terms, or take board seats, instead slotting into rounds alongside elite firms like Sequoia and Bessemer while treating its 750k+ subscriber base and ~1,400+ venture-backed founders as a scaled operating asset through structured CEO Services.