Drew Volpe is a founder, investor, and technologist who serves as Founding Partner at First Star Ventures, a pre-seed fund focused on technical founders building new computing technology. Drew Volpe's Twitter Score is 38 out of 1000 as of July 2026, ranking #28,400 (top 10%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
Drew Volpe co-founded Locately and has built a career spanning product development, machine learning, and decentralized technologies. He previously worked at Semantic Machines as founding VP of Product Development, a company later acquired by Microsoft. Before that, he served as Director of Product Development at Endeca Technologies, which was acquired by Oracle for $1.1 billion.
Drew Volpe leads First Star Ventures, which has backed 53 startups across three funds, investing at the pre-seed stage in research-driven founders working across areas such as AI and ML, computational biology, sensors, and decentralized technologies. The fund's portfolio includes Nomial, described as an open liquidity network for the modular blockchain ecosystem. Drew Volpe's stated areas of focus span AI and ML, NLP, climate, energy, Bitcoin, and crypto. Drew Volpe has accumulated 5,918 followers as of July 2026 across 8,246 posts, and has been mentioned by 24 accounts a total of 61 times.
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