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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 298 co-investors found.
- 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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