Teddy Blank

Teddy Blank

First Star Ventures

About

Role

Principal

Type

Seed fund

Bio

Teddy Blank has spent his career working to grow companies from their earliest days and answering the question of, "how do we get our first ten customers?".

He was previously co-founder of Tempo, a secure, differential privacy-enabled marketplace for biometric data from top athletes.

Prior to starting Tempo, Teddy led Sales and BD for Symphony Commerce, an ecommerce service as a platform startup backed by $52m from CRV, Bain, and FirstMark which grew revenues to $10M+ ARR in less than three years.

Teddy began his career as an analyst at Accenture, working across industries from telecom to banking to public transit. He is an advisor to early-stage deep tech startups and loves the challenge of taking a business from zero to the moon. Teddy holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Amherst College.

About Investments

Deep tech; climate tech; new computing

Investments

Stages

Pre-seed, Seed

Check Range

$100K-$500K

Geography

US/Canada

Leads Rounds

Sometimes

Investment Highlights

FYTO, Native Voice, Phoenix Tailings, Salient, Scoot Science, Sote, Swiftly, Zanskar

Get in touch

How they work

I like to meet folks as early as possible building things that are a little bit crazy

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Disclaimers and footnotes

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