First Spark Ventures

🛰 Exciting News Alert! 🛰 Today we are thrilled to announce our Series A funding round led by Steve Jurvetson’s Future Ventures and Seraphim Space! This milestone represents a significant step forward in our journey to revolutionize space-based navigation and timing solutions. Huge thanks to our investors and supporters for believing in our vision to unlock the potential of so many amazing technologies by providing the robust global location services needed to scale beyond highly structured environments. For more details check out the full press release below, and stay tuned for more updates as we continue to push the boundaries of what is possible with satellite navigation! https://lnkd.in/gr5tFX5i Future Ventures NGP Capital Generation Space Toyota Ventures Industrious Ventures First Spark Ventures Space Capital Murata MaC Venture Capital Stellar Ventures Gaingels Mana Ventures Lockheed Martin Aloniq Trucks Venture Capital 1517 Fund SRI SpaceVC Airstream Venture Partners Velvet Sea Ventures

Excited to share that we have raised a $9M Seed round at Altera to build digital human beings: machines with fundamental human qualities that are missing in today's AI models. We are starting with Agents who can play any game with you at any time, just like a friend. For more, check out our website (altera.al) / TechCrunch (https://lnkd.in/gxPhtYmh) / VentureBeat (https://lnkd.in/gRu2vZmU) The round is co-led by Patron (Brian Cho, Jason Yeh, Amber Atherton) and First Spark Ventures (Aaron Sisto, Manish Kothari). Special thanks to A16Z GAMES & the A16Z GAMES SPEEDRUN program (Jonathan Lai, Jack Soslow, Andrew Chen, and many more).

Possibly one of our most single-point-of-failure infrastructures! That's why we need new GPS satellite strategies. https://lnkd.in/du2_FuRQ

Very excited today to announce our research collaboration with Merck to access the Unnatural Products Inc. platform! “This collaboration with Merck leverages macrocycles against one of the most challenging oncology targets and is a testament to the progress we have made in intracellular targeting and the importance of finding new ways to tackle the high-hanging fruit in oncology,” said Cameron Pye, CEO and Co-Founder. “We look forward to working with the Unnatural Products team to develop candidates towards this challenging oncology target.”  said Rob Garbaccio, vice president and head, discovery chemistry, Merck Research Laboratories Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/gHf-CSU9

Very excited to announce Unnatural Products Inc. $32M Series A raise led by Prem Tumkosit at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund LLC and Vasudev Bailey at ARTIS Ventures to support UNP's mission to drug the undruggable and provide best in class treatments for patients using our macrocycle platform. We're joined by some fantastic new backers on this round and are looking forward to making a real impact in 2024 - more to come! https://lnkd.in/gkvrD2Pj Haitao Zhu First Spark Ventures Nirmesh Patel The Venture Collective (TVC) Vlad Cernouţan LongeVC Elliot Hershberg Not Boring Aneil Mallavarapu Modi Ventures Asset Management Ventures Abstract Ventures Better Ventures Blue Bear Ventures Rising Tide Fund Gaingels Wing Venture Capital

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