Investing in tomorrow, today
Xona Space Systems
Inworld AI
Walking Fish Therapeutics
Supporting founders who are shaping
the future
Scaling Deep Tech is hard. First Spark Ventures is comprised of an interdisciplinary team to help founders throughout their entire journey.
Manish Kothari, Ph.D.
Todd Meister
Peter Olcott, Ph.D.
Peter Richards
Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.
Aaron Sisto, Ph.D.
Gal Treger
Jennifer Wu
Haitao Zhu, Ph.D.
Danny Chen
Partnership
institution
Formerly Stanford Research Institute, SRI International is a leading scientific research institute with labs across biosciences, AI, robotics, advanced imaging, computer vision, and cyber and formal methods. SRI's pioneering 75 years of innovation have created new industries, billions of dollars in market value, and lasting benefits to society.
Areas of
interest
We invest in Deep Tech startups with a focus on Advanced Compute, Digital Biology & Biotech, and CyberPhysical Systems.
We invest in companies raising Pre-seed, Seed, and Series A funding rounds.
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As this generation of machine learning becomes ubiquitous, a whole host of new opportunities are emerging. Advanced computation will increase productivity and imbue computation with imagination.
AI-based computational biology has the potential to be the largest source of advancement in this century. Human health spans will be improved through digital biology, therapeutics, and personalized medicine.
Physical systems with the scaling potential of software are a key source of productivity and safety enhancement over the coming decades, transforming recalcitrant industries via scalable automation and intelligence.
Our portfolio.
First Spark Ventures invests in startups that have fundamental technological insights.
We look for stellar teams, large accessible markets, and massive sustainable differentiation.
Xona Space Systems
High-performance alternative to GPS designed to support the age of autonomy.
Inworld AI
Conversational dialogue engine that is able to converse with users fluently and naturally.
Vitara
Building a therapeutic platform that enables extreme premature babies to properly develop lung function.
Valitor
Conquering limitations of established drug targets by leveraging its multi-valent biopolymer technology to maximize benefits for patients.
Auxon
Auxon is a developer of a fully integrated suite of products for improving system performance and reliability.
Syntegra
Syntegra creates accurate, privacy-preserved synthetic healthcare data.
Latent AI
Latent AI Efficient Inference Platform (LEIP) is a modular, fully-integrated workflow designed to train, quantize, adapt and deploy edge AI neural networks.
Normal Computing
Full stack platform for Probabilistic AI.
Nimble Science
Transforming personalized health through unprecedented access to actionable health data from the GI
Flower
A unified approach to federated learning, analytics, and evaluation. Federate any workload, any ML framework, and any programming language.
Inlyte Energy
Reliable grid batteries made from naturally abundant and inexpensive raw materials.
Unnatural Products
What nature never thought to make
Altera
Bringing fundamental human traits to AI to serve empathy, friendship, and fun at an unlimited scale
Synth Labs
Cutting edge research for transparent, auditable AI alignment
Tidal Metals
Decarbonized magnesium from just seawater and electricity
News & Media
Tidal Metals Sees Seawater as the Solution to a Critical Mineral Shortage
Nature Biotechnology 2024 Editor's Pick: Unnatural Products
Altera's Game-Playing AI Agents
Xona Space Systems Closes Series A
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