Draper Associates
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Draper Associates is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies across various sectors, including AI, blockchain, healthcare, and aerospace. It was founded by Tim Draper and has backed over 400 companies.
Draper Associates is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Mateo, United States, founded in 1985. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to Series A, in AI, Robotics & Automation, crypto & Blockchain, healthcare & Biotech and aerospace & Space. $2.3B under management and 400 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We back the bold before the world believes.”
— Draper Associates, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- San Mateo, United States
- Invests in
- global
- Sectors
- AI, Robotics & Automation, Crypto & Blockchain, Healthcare & Biotech, Aerospace & Space, Unconventional Ideas
- Founded
- 1985
- Assets under management
- $2.3B
- Portfolio
- 400 companies
Team, as Draper Associates publishes it
- Tim Draper Founder and Managing Partner
- Andy Tang Partner
- James Walker Principal
- Maxime Bucaille Principal
- Michelle Kwok Principal
- Megan Kurohara Principal
Names and roles exactly as listed on draper.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 298 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Capital Factory 4 shared companies: colossal.com, cyber-swarm.net, darkhive.com, dexmat.com
- Axevil Capital, LLC 3 shared companies: arcticwolf.com, benchling.com, boomsupersonic.com
- SV Angel 3 shared companies: coinbase.com, benchling.com, boomsupersonic.com
- Winklevoss Capital 3 shared companies: coinbase.com, consensus.app, colossal.com
- Bayshore Capital 2 shared companies: goo.gl, coinbase.com
- Prosus Ventures 2 shared companies: goo.gl, dognosis.tech
- Sentinel Global 2 shared companies: cryptio.co, coinbase.com
- Vast Ventures Management LLC 2 shared companies: alexi.com, coinbase.com
- F-Prime Capital 2 shared companies: coinbase.com, benchling.com
- Union Square Ventures 2 shared companies: coinbase.com, consensus.app
and 288 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Draper Associates publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.draper.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.draper.vc/investment-philosophystage_min, stage_max
- https://www.draper.vc/teampeople
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Record 2162 · added 2026-09-03 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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