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Millie Liu

Founder and Managing Partner at First Star (fka Procyon Ventures)

📍 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2016
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Investor/Board Observer
May 2016
Resilinc, the market leader of supply chain risk and compliance solutions, helps companies worldwide navigate the complexities and uncertainties of global supply chains. Our Agentic AI powered platform, combined with supplier-validated data, empowers organizations to anticipate, mitigate, and swiftly respond to disruptions with pinpoint accuracy, protecting continuity of supply.
Investor/Board Observer
Oct 2015
rENIAC’s Data Engine accelerates and optimizes existing open source database implementations for data-centric applications like AI, ML, fraud prevention, payment processing, identity resolution and recommendation engines. Flexible and deployed in minutes on prem, hybrid or in the cloud, rENIAC can be implemented as a hardware-optimized cache, a transparent proxy for data acceleration or a supercharged storage engine. rENIAC combines the power of FPGAs with proprietary software to provide industry leading customers with reduced CPU usage and node count, increased performance, and consistent, predictable SLAs unattainable through a traditional database alone.
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2017
Advisory Board Member
Mar 2017
The MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory – known as CSAIL ­– is the largest research laboratory at MIT and one of the world’s most important centers of information technology research. CSAIL has played a key role in the computer revolution and developments such as time-sharing, massive parallel computers, public key encryption, mass commercialization of robots, and much of the technology underlying the ARPANet, Internet and the World Wide Web. CSAIL’s focus is developing the architecture and innovative applications for tomorrow’s information technology. Our research yields long-term improvements in how people live and work. CSAIL members (former and current) have launched more than 100 companies, including 3Com, Lotus Development Corporation, RSA Data Security, Akamai, iRobot, Meraki, ITA Software, and Vertica. The Lab is home to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Wireless@MIT, BigData@CSAIL, Cybersecurity@CSAIL and the MIT Information Policy Project (IPP). Connecting to CSAIL CSAIL Alliances is your organizations pathway to CSAIL connections and serves as a gateway into the lab for industry and governmental institutions seeking closer engagement to the work, researchers and students of CSAIL. The program provides organizations with a proactive and comprehensive approach to developing strong connections with all CSAIL has to offer. Leading organizations come to CSAIL to learn about our research, to recruit talented graduate students, and to explore collaborations with our researchers. Through this program, we are able to better provide our members with access to our latest thinking and our deep pool of exceptional human and informational resources. For more information, please visit: http://cap.csail.mit.edu/
Founder
Feb 2017
Boston Digital Industrial Group (aka Boston DIG) is a meetup for entrepreneurs and corporate innovators interested in the future of industrial applications for technologies, including (but not limited to) IoT, AR/VR, edge computing, advanced manufacturing (including 3D printing), AI/ML, and end-to-end data integration. Industry verticals including but not limited to manufacturing, oil & gas, chemicals, pharmaceutical, aerospace, engineering & construction, transportation & logistics, automotive, etc. We host regular events with speakers covering a range of topics, including refining our understanding of what "digital industrial means," showcasing companies and demonstrating use cases, and exploring challenges and opportunities across the value chain. Additionally, every event will provide an opportunity to network with entrepreneurs, engineers, executives, startups and corporates in this emerging space. This meetup is for corporate innovators looking to transform their businesses, share problems they’d like to see solved, expose to new digital industrial technologies, and swap notes with industry peers on best practices. It’s also for startup entrepreneurs to understand their customer needs, expand industry network, and showcase their products.
2016
Investor/Board Observer
May 2016
Resilinc, the market leader of supply chain risk and compliance solutions, helps companies worldwide navigate the complexities and uncertainties of global supply chains. Our Agentic AI powered platform, combined with supplier-validated data, empowers organizations to anticipate, mitigate, and swiftly respond to disruptions with pinpoint accuracy, protecting continuity of supply.
2015
Investor/Board Observer
Oct 2015
rENIAC’s Data Engine accelerates and optimizes existing open source database implementations for data-centric applications like AI, ML, fraud prevention, payment processing, identity resolution and recommendation engines. Flexible and deployed in minutes on prem, hybrid or in the cloud, rENIAC can be implemented as a hardware-optimized cache, a transparent proxy for data acceleration or a supercharged storage engine. rENIAC combines the power of FPGAs with proprietary software to provide industry leading customers with reduced CPU usage and node count, increased performance, and consistent, predictable SLAs unattainable through a traditional database alone.
2014
Founder and Managing Partner
2014
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 our experience and network of strategic partners across industries and regions, we help startups think big and grow fast.
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