First Star Venture
First Star Venture last closed a fund in September 2022 — 50 months ago.
2 funds on record — a rhythm needs three. No month is guessed; the filing will say.
Late-cycle This firm is deep enough into its last fund that a new one would not be a surprise.
- Funds on file
- 2
- Capital raised
- $90M
- Latest close
- September 2022
- Based in
- MA
Vehicles on file
| Vehicle | First close | Amount | Filings |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Star Venture Fund III LP | September 2022 | $40M | 0001937359 ↗ |
| First Star Venture Fund II LP | March 2017 | $50M | 0001698928 ↗ |
Dated from filing date; no date of first sale was reported.
Each row links to that vehicle’s Form D filings on EDGAR — the name, date and amount above should match what is filed there.
Named on filings
Andrew Volpe, Ruiyi Liu
What First Star Venture invests in
- Typical fund
- $50M median, seed to early stage
- Says it invests in
- AI · deeptech
- Website
- firststar.vc
Sector and stage are quoted from the firm’s own website, not inferred, and dated.
Service providers
- Fund administrator
- Ultimus LeverPoint (1 fund)
- Auditor
- RSM (1 fund)
From Form ADV filed by FIRST STAR VENTURES LLC CRD 288548 ↗, latest filing May 2020, covering 1 fund linked to this firm by Form D file number. Form ADV is filed once a year, so a provider may have changed since — and this adviser has not filed since then in our data. How this is matched.
What this is. Every figure on this page comes from Form D filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission — public records, reproduced here as filed. Service providers, where shown, come from the adviser’s Form ADV and are dated.
What it is not. Single-deal SPVs, feeder vehicles and GP or employee commitment funds are listed but excluded from fund counts and capital totals: an SPV is one investment, a feeder holds the same capital as its master, and a “Principals” or “Entrepreneurs” fund closes alongside a main fund rather than being raised in its own right. Capital deployed from a family office, a corporate balance sheet or an evergreen structure never arrives as a fund close, so a firm doing that looks quiet here. Amounts are as of the last amendment and go stale. Dates are the date of first sale — a fund's first close, not its final one. Funds filed as “Indefinite” are excluded from totals rather than counted as zero, so a total is a floor.
“No recent fund” is a statement about filings. It is not a statement about whether a firm is solvent, investing, or still in business.