Firms

First Spark Ventures

Menlo Park, California

firstsparkventures.comsignal.nfx.com

Deep-tech venture firm investing at pre-seed, seed, and Series A in biotechnology, advanced computation, cyber-physical systems, and advanced materials.

Founded

2021

Type

Venture capital

Team

Aaron Sisto First Spark Ventures, Partner	$1M$100K – $5M	San Francisco Bay Area
Haitao Zhu First Spark Ventures, Partner	$1M$100K – $5M	San Francisco Bay Area
James Chan First Spark Ventures, Investor	$1M$100K – $5M	San Francisco Bay Area
Jennifer Wu First Spark Ventures, Principal	$1M$100K – $5M	San Francisco Bay Area
Peter Olcott First Spark Ventures, Principal	$1M$100K – $5M	Stanford, California
Manish Kothari First Spark Ventures, Managing Director	—— – —

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Co-investing

Anastasis Germanidis

• Alljoined$— · 2025-03-28

ArcTern Ventures

• Normal Computing$50M · 2026-03-25

ARTIS

• Alljoined$— · 2025-03-28

Celesta Capital

• Normal Computing$50M · 2026-03-25

Compound

• Alljoined$— · 2025-03-28

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Investments

$50M2026-03-25	Normal Computing	Samsung Catalyst Fund, Celesta Capital, Nicholas Brathwaite, ArcTern Ventures, Drive Capital, First Spark Ventures, Micron Ventures
$—2025-03-28	Alljoined	Khosla Ventures, Conviction, Compound, ARTIS, Xtal Ventures, Topology, First Spark Ventures, Valor, Constellation, Jeff Dean, Mina Fahmi, Casey Caruso, Anastasis Germanidis, Guillermo Rauch, Oliver Cameron, Vas Bailey

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