Millie Liu
Co-Founder, Partner @ First Star Ventures
Boston, United States
Millie Liu is a founding partner and managing director of Procyon Ventures, focusing on helping entrepreneurs with deep technology turn their ideas into great businesses with global reach.She was previously at APT, an enterprise data analytics startup acquired by Mastercard for $600m where she helped Fortune 50 clients such as Walmart andP&G make better strategic decisions leveraging data. She also was a cofounder of Fadmatics, an MIT startup using machine learning to perform automatic event detection. And she previously worked in private equity in China with a focus on growth equity.Millie is an advisor to MIT CHIEF and Shinect, a mentor at MassChallenge and the Alchemist accelerator, and co-host of the Researcher Founders group in Boston. Millie holds a Master of Finance degree from MIT and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Toronto.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Millie Liu invests in
Stages Millie Liu invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Machine Learning 1 (50%)
- Quantum Computing 1 (50%)
- Advanced Materials 1 (50%)
- Information Technology 1 (50%)
- Artificial Intelligence 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (50%)
Investments
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Phaseshift Technologies
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PhaseShift Technologies is addressing the critical need for new materials that can overcome limitations in performance, efficiency, cost, availability, and sustainability. Traditional material development relies heavily on trial-and-error, requiring costly and time-consuming physical experiments. This approach can extend projects over 10-20 yearsand cost millions of dollars, with no guarantee of success.PhaseShift's Rapid Alloy Design (RAD)™ technology revolutionizes this process by using AI to create optimized alloys tailored to specific use cases. Paired with Multi-Scale Simulations to accurately predict material performance, RAD™ minimizes the time and effort spent on unsuccessful trials. This leads to faster, more efficient development cycles and a significant reduction in resources required to meet design goals.Through the RAD™ platform, PhaseShift designs a portfolio of innovative alloys, which are commercialized via strategic partnerships with manufacturers. | $3M / Seed / Oct 21, 2024 | |
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Phaseshift Technologies
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PhaseShift Technologies is addressing the critical need for new materials that can overcome limitations in performance, efficiency, cost, availability, and sustainability. Traditional material development relies heavily on trial-and-error, requiring costly and time-consuming physical experiments. This approach can extend projects over 10-20 yearsand cost millions of dollars, with no guarantee of success.PhaseShift's Rapid Alloy Design (RAD)™ technology revolutionizes this process by using AI to create optimized alloys tailored to specific use cases. Paired with Multi-Scale Simulations to accurately predict material performance, RAD™ minimizes the time and effort spent on unsuccessful trials. This leads to faster, more efficient development cycles and a significant reduction in resources required to meet design goals.Through the RAD™ platform, PhaseShift designs a portfolio of innovative alloys, which are commercialized via strategic partnerships with manufacturers. | $575K / Pre-Seed / May 22, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About First Star Ventures
First Star partners with entrepreneurs solving real-world problems using data and machine learning, focusing on applications of frontier technologies such as AI, computational biotech, connected sensors, AR/VR, and blockchain. We believe in investing with conviction in visionary, technical founders inventing the future. Drawing on ourexperience and network of strategic partners across industries and regions, we help startups think big and grow fast.
First Star Ventures Contacts
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Drew Volpe
Partner, Co-Founder
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Millie Liu
Co-Founder, Partner
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What does Millie Liu invest in?
Millie Liu invests primarily in Machine Learning, Quantum Computing and Advanced Materials startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Millie Liu last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Millie Liu closed in Oct 2024. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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