Our Companies

Investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing a better future.

24 companies

Jellyfish

acquired

Software Engineering Intelligence platform that enables engineering leaders to align their teams' work with strategic business objectives.

dev tools

Zanskar

acquired

An AI-native geothermal developer leveraging a suite of new technologies to improve the geothermal discovery and development process.

energy

iOrganBio

acquired

AI-guided development and manufacturing of human cells and organoids.

bio+compute

Nomic Bio

acquired

Nomic Bio makes proteomics as accessible as genomics, accelerating the discovery and development of new drugs and diagnostics.

bio+compute

Parallel Wireless

acquired

Parallel Wireless makes OpenRAN software and hardware to enable flexible, low-cost, multi-bandwidth performance for telecom infrastructure.

Scoot Science

acquired

Scoot Science serves the ocean economy by using AI for subsea modeling, forecasting and operational automation.

Native Voice

acquired

Native Voice is the trusted provider of globally-recognizable, branded character AI experiences.

Salient

acquired

First Star co-created Salient, which uses novel ocean data sources and AI modeling techniques to predict the weather 2—52 weeks ahead more accurately than anyone else in the world.

energy

Swiftly

acquired

Swiftly is the white-label retail media platform for brands and retailers.

Genialis

acquired

Genialis is reimagining biomarkers with RNA + AI, creating precision oncology for every target, drug and patient.

bio+compute

Robigo

acquired

Robigo programs biology to grow more and better food by engineering microbes to protect crops from disease.

bio+compute

Bedrock Energy

acquired

Bedrock models, drills and commissions geothermal HVAC systems and district heating networks using AI and mobile autonomous drilling systems they’ve created.

energy

Plus One Robotics

acquired

Plus One simplifies robotic integration, operation and learning in human-centric environments with human-in-the-loop oversight.

autonomy

EnPowered

acquired

EnPowered uses AI to help corporate and industrial customers access valuable incentives, rebates and financing for resilient, clean, efficient energy.

energy

PhaseShift

acquired

PhaseShift uses AI to discover, model and synthesize novel materials (starting with specialty and high-value alloys).

Enzymit

acquired

Enzymit uses AI to discover and synthesize novel enzymes to catalyze highly efficient cell-free biomanufacturing processes.

bio+compute

Turso

acquired

Turso provides a distributed database platform built on libSQL, enabling low-latency, globally deployed databases for applications, including on-device AI and multitenant SaaS.

dev tools

Nomial

acquired

Nomial is an open liquidity network designed for the modular blockchain ecosystem, enabling users to provide liquidity for cross-chain token markets.

dev tools

Plex

acquired

Plex Research has developed an AI-driven drug discovery engine which integrates large-scale chemical biology and multi-omics datasets, providing interpretable and actionable analyses to accelerate drug discovery projects.

bio+compute

Gradient

acquired

Passwordless authentication platform that uses device-level roots of trust.

dev tools

Kanary

acquired

Kanary makes online safety tools that combat doxxing, digital stalking, and deepfakes, and allow people to reclaim their privacy.

VistaPath

acquired

VistaPath is modernizing pathology labs through the use of computer vision and AI.

bio+compute

health

Tranquil Data

acquired

Tranquil Data helps businesses with high-value, high-consequence, high-sensitivity data use that data responsibly and correctly.

dev tools

Throne

acquired

Throne is a smart, toilet-mounted sensor that turns everyday bathroom moments into personalized gut, hydration and urinary insights.

health

Romix Bio

acquired

Revolutionizing RNA Liquid Biopsy

bio+compute

health

Extellis

acquired

Reliable satellite imagery at an industrial scale

Bot Auto

acquired

Autonomous trucking technology to transform long-haul freight logistics.

autonomy

Saola

acquired

Autonomous quality for engineering teams.

dev tools

Zep

acquired

Memory layer for AI agents, using temporal knowledge graphs to deliver the right context at retrieval time.

dev tools

Brelle

acquired

Modular, ultra-fast-charging battery and software platforms for electric and hybrid performance vehicles

Oort

acquired

Enterprises identity threat detection and response.

dev tools

Feature Labs

acquired

Automated ML feature engineering.

dev tools

EnPowered

acquired

AI-powered energy management platform that cuts commercial electricity costs through peak prediction and demand response.

energy

MotionHall

acquired

AI-powered deal sourcing, competitive landscaping, and strategic advisory for biopharma partnerships and acquisitions.

bio+compute

WinterLight Labs

acquired

Speech-based digital biomarkers.

bio+compute

Where we
deploy capital

First Star invests through structured theses to identify and support transformational technologies before they become obvious. These theses focus on areas like autonomous robotics, AI-driven biology, healthcare re-imaged through new devices and data, etc. These are domains where new technology and timing create asymmetric advantage.