VC
United States
New Fund 2024

First Spark Ventures

Check Size
€92K – €4.6M

Investment Focus

Investment Stages

Geographic Focus

Investment Thesis

First Spark invests in breakthrough technologies making the world healthier, safer, and more productive.

How to Pitch First Spark Ventures

No Stated Policy
First Spark Ventures hasn't published an outreach policy. A short, specific cold email is the safest default.

Who To Contact

Aaron Sisto
Partner
Advanced Compute
AI
Danny Chen
General Partner, First Spark Opportunities
Digital Biology & Biotech

Portfolio Highlights

Normal Computing - thermodynamic computing
Flower - federated machine learning
Varda Space Industries - in-space manufacturing

Team

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Aaron Sisto
Partner

Former Director at Schmidt Futures and co-founder of Searchable.ai, focused on early-stage tech investments.

Advanced Compute
AI
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Danny Chen
General Partner, First Spark Opportunities

Biotech investor with 16+ investments; former board member at Mesa Biotech (acquired by Thermo Fisher).

Digital Biology & Biotech
Checked Aug 2026
Eric Schmidt
Strategic Advisor & Founding Non-Managing Partner

Former Google CEO and Chairman who scaled the company from startup to global tech giant; founded Schmidt Sciences.

AI
Technology
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Gal Treger
General Partner

Former Director at Schmidt Futures and Economic Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister focused on technology.

Technology
Finance
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Jennifer Wu
Principal

Former Associate Director at SRI International leading incubation and market analysis for Deep Tech commercialization.

Deep Tech
Robotics
Enterprise Software
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Manish Kothari
Founding Managing Partner

Former SRI International President who incubated and invested in 25+ Deep Tech startups and advised US Government agencies.

Advanced Compute
Digital Biology & Biotech
CyberPhysical Systems
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Peter Olcott
Principal

Silicon Valley engineer with 25 patents spanning telecom, defense, and medical imaging hardware-software integration.

CyberPhysical Systems
Medical Imaging
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Peter Richards
Founding General Partner

Veteran technology investor with 25+ years experience; founder of Dune Road Capital and Empire Capital.

Technology
Checked Aug 2026
Todd Meister
Founding General Partner

12-year collaborator with Eric Schmidt; co-founder of XO Health and multiple venture/private equity firms.

Checked Aug 2026

Focus and check size from the firm's website. Website reachable as of Aug 2026.

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