Where does Aaron Sisto work?

Aaron Sisto is Founder of Chronicle and Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc.

What check size does Aaron Sisto write?

Aaron Sisto typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.

Where did Aaron Sisto go to school?

Aaron Sisto studied at Stanford University (PhD, Machine Learning & Quantum Simulation); Purdue University (BS, MS).

Aaron Sisto

InvestorFounder

Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc · Founder at Chronicle

San Francisco Bay Area

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

FoundedChronicle

About

Partner who previously led early-stage tech investments as a Director at Schmidt Futures, co-founded and served as Chief Scientist at Searchable.ai, and was a technologist at In-Q-Tel. He holds a Stanford PhD in quantum simulation and machine learning.

Contact· self-published, not guessed

a•••@firstsparkventures.comreveal

Founder at Chronicle

Intro paths

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In turn, Aaron can intro founders to Chronicle's investors below.

Chronicle's investors · 7

AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checks PatronSanta Monica · $100K – $1M checks Point72 VenturesNew York · $1M – $75M checks Sands Capital VenturesArlington · $10M – $30M checks Strobe VenturesBrooklyn Transpose Platform ManagementHouston Z Venture CapitalTokyo · $150K – $101M checks

Co-founders at Chronicle

Scott Greenberg

Experience

Chronicle MediaCo-Founder & CEOcurrent2025 — present
First Spark VenturesPartnercurrent2022 — present
SynthBee, Inc.Founding Advisorcurrent2022 — present
OpenArt AIAngel Investorcurrent2025 — present
Fundamental Research LabsInvestorcurrent2024 — present
CheehooAngel Investorcurrent2024 — present
SynthLabsInvestorcurrent2024 — present
Flower LabsInvestorcurrent2023 — present
Samaya AIInvestorcurrent2023 — present
Fable SimulationAngel Investorcurrent2023 — present
Zephr.xyzInvestorcurrent2023 — present
Inworld AIInvestorcurrent2022 — present
Normal ComputingInvestorcurrent2022 — present
SimulonInvestorcurrent2022 — present
PendulumInvestorcurrent2022 — present
SandboxAQAdvisorcurrent2022 — present
Reality DefenderInvestorcurrent2022 — present
Sands CapitalAdvisorcurrent2019 — present
University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and InformationBoard of Visitors2019 — 2024
X, the moonshot factoryAdvisor2018 — 2024
Schmidt FuturesDirector of Engineering2021 — 2022
searchable.aiCo-Founder, Chief Scientist2019 — 2022
In-Q-TelTechnologist2016 — 2019Washington D.C. Metro Area
National Science FoundationGraduate Fellowship2010 — 2015
U.S. Department of EnergyComputational Science Graduate Fellowship2010 — 2014
Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryResearch Fellow2013
Berkeley LabResearch Fellow2009 — 2011

Skills & more

Start-ups9Research6Machine Learning9Physics10Data Analysis9Numerical Analysis7Simulations5Materials Science5Mathematical Modeling3Software Development3Nanotechnology3Heat Transfer1

+12 more

Project ManagementEntrepreneurshipBusiness StrategyScienceVenture CapitalResearch and Development (R&D)Business DevelopmentPythonFortranC++LaTeXMathematica

From Aaron's professional profile.

Colleagues at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Danny Chen

General Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Eric Schmidt

Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors

Gal Treger

General Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Haitao Zhu

Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Jennifer Wu

Principal at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Manish Kothari

Founding Managing Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Peter Olcott

Principal at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Peter Richards

Founding General Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Network5

Brian Cho

Co-Founder & General Partner at Patron

Haitao Zhu

Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc

James Chan

CFO at Breakout Ventures

Jennifer Wu

Principal at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Peter Olcott

Principal at First Spark Ventures, Llc

Investors connected to Aaron in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Aaron Sisto?: Partner who previously led early-stage tech investments as a Director at Schmidt Futures, co-founded and served as Chief Scientist at Searchable.ai, and was a technologist at In-Q-Tel. He holds a Stanford PhD in quantum simulation and machine learning.
Where does Aaron Sisto work?: Aaron Sisto is Founder of Chronicle and Partner at First Spark Ventures, Llc.
What check size does Aaron Sisto write?: Aaron Sisto typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
What companies did Aaron Sisto found?: Aaron Sisto founded Chronicle.
Where did Aaron Sisto go to school?: Aaron Sisto studied at Stanford University (PhD, Machine Learning & Quantum Simulation); Purdue University (BS, MS).