We partner early with unstoppable entrepreneurs leveraging breakthrough science and technology to pursue progress at scale.
Everything we do revolves around a single problem: What are the best ways to reconcile economic growth with human and planetary health?
We invest in teams and solutions that address multi-decade problems that humanity has no choice but to solve.
Our focusing questions
- How can we decouple improving living standards from resource depletion?
- How can we ensure food, energy and materials supply security when confronted by deglobalization, multipolarity and the distractions of the attention economy?
- How can we improve life on Earth and unlock future economic growth potential by leveraging next-generation computing and exploring outer space?
- How can the clean industrialization of biological processes reduce humanity’s impact on our planet?
How we invest in unstoppable founders
We look to problems and unmet needs first and then to which technologies and solutions have the potential to address those problems effectively. We don’t push any one type of technology or limit ourselves to one field.
We look for founders and companies at the pre-seed and seed stages leveraging the three basic disciplines (physics, chemistry, biology) to engineer economically viable solutions.
We look for teams that are uniquely suited to address the opportunity and its inherent challenges and for solutions that are radically better, technically viable, and defensible.
Some of the areas we are keen to continue exploring include clean commodities, space technology, industrial decarbonization, electro- and green chemistry, next-generation computing, new materials & production methods.
How we partner for the long-term
Starlight is a Pre-Seed and Seed investor and ideally the first institutional check into your company. Having been in your shoes as founders and scientists ourselves, we will serve as an ally in the journey ahead. Here’s what you can expect from working with us:
- We will lead or co-lead your first institutional round. We reserve capital for follow-on investment in later rounds, and we have to ability to partner with our LPs to augment our participation in future opportunities.
- We will be personally invested in your success, as a large portion of our fund comes from our own team.
- We will put a particular focus on ensuring that your roadmap is focused on the key risks and milestones unique to addressing the most pressing problems.
- We will work with you to establish rock-solid governance and operational practices that hold up to the scrutiny of the world’s best institutional investors.
- We will help you line up and credibly engage the right future investors for your business and trajectory.
Let’s partner and make change happen.