Starlight Ventures is a Miami-based venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with founders who are addressing the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities. The firm focuses on early-stage investments, collaborating with entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale.
Mission
Starlight Ventures aims to reconcile economic growth with human and planetary health by investing in teams and solutions that tackle multi-decade problems humanity must solve. The firm seeks to decouple improving living standards from resource depletion and ensure food, energy, and materials supply security amid global changes.
Approach
The firm looks for founders and companies at the pre-seed and seed stages, leveraging disciplines such as physics, chemistry, and biology to engineer economically viable solutions. Starlight Ventures emphasizes investing in teams uniquely suited to address significant opportunities and challenges, focusing on solutions that are radically better, technically viable, and defensible.
Leadership Team
Starlight Ventures is led by a team of builders, operators, and scientists who have stood in founders’ shoes and deeply understand their perspective. The firm is meticulously creating the venture firm they wished had been around to invest in their own ventures, fostering a unique collaborative culture where founders are the stars.
Portfolio Highlights
Starlight Ventures has invested in a diverse range of companies, including:
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS): Developing magnetic confinement nuclear fusion (tokamak) with record-breaking superconducting magnets.
- AtmosZero: Providing clean steam and low-temperature heat for industrial processes.
- Blue Energy: An offshore nuclear fission energy deployment platform.
- SpinLaunch: Developing kinetic launch technology for small payloads.
- Geltor: Specializing in protein bio-design to replace petrochemical and animal-based products.
Investment Focus
Starlight Ventures is keen to explore areas including clean commodities, space technology, industrial decarbonization, electro- and green chemistry, next-generation computing, new materials, and production methods. The firm partners early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale.
Contact Information
For more information or to explore partnership opportunities, visit Starlight Ventures’ official website. Stay updated on their latest news and events by subscribing to their newsletter through the website.
Starlight Ventures remains dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs and fostering innovation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges.