San Mateo, California, United States
Through Draper Associates, DFJ, and the larger Draper venture ecosystem I’ve been lucky enough to meet and fund the founders behind giants like Tesla, Robinhood, Twitch, Baidu, and SpaceX. I backed SpaceX when private space travel was unheard of. Now they’re making humanity interplanetary. I backed Colossal when they thought de-extincting animals was sci-fi. Now we have 3 dire wolf puppies. I look for visionary founders building the future before it’s obvious. Through Draper University’s hero training, we’ve unleashed 6,000+ innovators from 103 countries, sparking 1500+ companies and 7 unicorns. Through Meet The Drapers TV show, we’ve broadcasted seven seasons of entrepreneurial innovators to tens of millions of people from around the world, and we already launched at least one unicorn. I invest in founders who reshape how we live, work, and dream with new tech, new systems, and new horizons. Got a vision that will change the world? I’m listening. Pitch me: [email protected] Apply to Draper University: draperu.com Read How to Be The Startup Hero on Amazon More: draper.vc | meetthedrapers.com | drapertv.com
Draper Associates is an industry-agnostic seed-stage venture capital firm backing visionary founders building the future: particularly interested in frontier tech from AI and biotech to crypto, defense, space, and beyond. We invest early, with conviction, in the ideas that seem impossible today but become inevitable tomorrow.
Providing transformational pro-business and entrepreneurship training using unconventional methods that mirror real-world scenarios and pragmatic learning approaches. We also provide venture capital investment through Draper University Ventures and the wider Draper Ecosystem.
DFJ (Draper Fisher Jurvetson) is a pioneering venture firm known for early investments in transformative companies.