Pre-seed VC. Investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future. #ML #AI #Climate #techbio @DrewVolpe @MITMillieLiu @teddypowday

Boston, MA
Joined September 2016
First Star Ventures@FirstStarVCMay 18
Join us next Thursday, May 28th Heeding Nature's Call: Reading the Body with AI 👇 – at Cambridge, MA
✍️ Design 🏗️ Build 💥 Test 💡 Learn These are the core engineering principles that guide the iterative design of everything spanning ballpoint pens to fighter jets. And now we can do the same for cells—completely automated—made possible by advanced robotics and AI. As part of Boston Tech Week, @iOrganBio Founder and CEO @DanielDelubac will be contributing to a panel discussing the intersection of deep tech and biomedical progress. Joining him for the Heeding Nature's Call: Reading the Body with AI are: @JohnCapodilupo of @ThroneScience and @WHOOP @LoyConor of @romixbio Moderated by @drewvolpe of @FirstStarVC, this fireside chat promises to be an engaging update on how deep tech is combining with biotechnology to transform human health. If you’re in Boston for @Techweek_ , you won’t want to miss it! 📝 Register for the event at partiful.com/e/MyfKGX0Dl8BiN… 🤖 Check out the full Boston Tech Week lineup at tech-week.com/ 🌐 Learn more about iOB at iorgan.bio/ #BOSTechWeek #AI #Biotech #Organoids #NAMs
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVCApr 15
Is tokenmaxxing cost effective? Data from @_jellyfish_co "significantly higher token usage does lead to more output, but not proportionally. The cost per merged PR increases from just $0.28 in the lowest usage tier to $89.32 in the highest."
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVCMar 31
Jellyfish now supports review agents Claude Review, Qodo, and Augment Code Review. Engineering teams can measure where AI is gaining traction and how it's changing coding and the code review process.
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC22 Oct 2025
"AI is becoming the solution to its own energy problem," @ZanskarGeo CEO, Carl Hoiland said. "It’s showing us a way to unlock resources that weren’t possible without it" via @AP
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC3 Apr 2025
Congrats to @plexresearch on their partnership with @Ginkgo This collaboration brings together Plex's focal graph-based AI platform with Ginkgo’s large-scale biological datasets to open new paths in drug discovery.
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC2 Apr 2025
New weather model from @salientpredict , GEM 1.0, is out. A state-of-the art generative AI model across medium-range and S2S timescales, GEM 1.0 outperforms NWP models like NOAA GEFS and ECMWF ENS for native variables and tail/complex weather events.
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC18 Oct 2024
Intern to CEO. @_jellyfish_co founder @amlau talks to @Forbes about his 20 year journey of working with his co-founders across startups.
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC17 Sep 2024
Congrats to @nomicbio on their $42m series B! Scientific teams have profiled >400k samples using Nomic’s nELISA to further their R&D. And they’re just getting started. 🧬🚀
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC12 Sep 2024
Fyto is using plant science + robotics + remote sensing to make a sustainable, more profitable food system. vimeo.com/1007273479
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First Star Ventures@FirstStarVC11 Jun 2024
Talks from @_jellyfish_co 's GLOW 2024 🌟 are online! Hear leaders from Roblox, FanDuel, Thoughtworks, ... on build winning teams, demystifying engineering to the rest of the business, and AI's role in augmenting products.
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