• Co-founder of Tempo — A secure, differential-privacy-enabled marketplace for biometric data from top athletes
• Led Sales & BD at Symphony Commerce — Ecommerce SaaS startup ($52M raised from CRV, Bain, FirstMark), grew to $10M+ ARR in under 3 years
• Specializes in early-stage growth: "How do we get our first ten customers?"
• MBA from Harvard University
• BA from Amherst College

• Pre-seed and seed stage
• Deep tech / frontier computing
• AI/ML, edge computing, decentralization, techbio

Oort, Plex Research, Jellyfish, Zanskar, Enzymit, Nomic Bio, Salient Predictions, Gradient, Turso, Plus One Robotics, and others.

• Great fit if your AI agent startup has a deep tech angle or novel computing approach
• His go-to-market expertise (first 10 customers) is valuable for early-stage founders
• First Star's thesis around "frontier computing" aligns well with AI agent infrastructure
• The fund invests at very early stages, so even pre-product startups could be a fit