Drew Volpe
Managing Partner at First Star Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2021 - Current
Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources.
Raised $42,230,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Clearvision Ventures, Safar Partners, First Star Ventures and Lowercarbon Capital.
Founder / Managing Partner
2016
First Star invests in entrepreneurs solving real-world problems with deep technology in data, machine learning, and decentralization. Investments include: Jellyfish, Sia (Nebulous), Plex Research, Feature Labs, Seven Bridges Genomics, Upskill, Smarking, Oculii, Resilinc, among others.
Founding Investor
2020
Salient combines novel ocean and land-surface data with AI and climate expertise to deliver the world’s most accurate S2S weather forecasts.
Raised $11,822,187.00 from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Rose Rock Bridge.
Investor
2017
Seed round investor.
Jellyfish is an engineering management platform specializing in business alignment, DevOps, and data science services.
Raised $114,500,000.00 from Accel, Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners and Wing Venture Capital.
Investor
2021
Investor starting at pre-seed.
Robigo is a biomanufacturing company engineering microbes to create more sustainable crop protection solutions.
Raised $8,000,000.00 from Aera VC, Good Growth Capital, Congruent Ventures, First Star Ventures and Endeavor8.
Investor
2021
Investor
2019
Investor starting at the pre-seed.
Investor / Board Director
2018
Investor / Board Director
2017
Investor
2021
Education
AB
1997 - 2001