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Draper Associates

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Draper Associates

@DraperVC

Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.

California, USA

Joined October 2015

Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 22
DA8 is launched. 41 years of @TimDraper investing. 12 years with external investors, after spinning out of DFJ. $300M more to put to work in the next generation of founders. Our focus has not moved: early-stage companies led by technically serious founders taking on industries
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 22
Draper Associates Launches Fund 8 | DRAPER ASSOCIATES
From draper.vc
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Tim Draper
@TimDraper
Jun 18
My take on @SpaceX going public: → $75 billion raised → Largest IPO in history → Stock up 19% on day one. Elon has brought new life to the space and transportation markets. Transportation used to be the big three with very little innovation, and @Tesla opened our minds to
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 18
Most Americans can’t access the asset class that creates millionaires. Our portfolio company, Mogul, is changing that. CEO Alex Blackwood broke down fractional real estate investing for ABC. When we backed Mogul, the thesis was simple: real estate built more American wealth
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 16
Steve Jurvetson was spending his weekends launching rockets. Tim noticed and said, "Steve, if you're going to spend that much time on an industry, find us the best rocket company and let's fund it." Two months later, Steve came back with an answer. The best rocket company
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Lucky Robots
@luckyrobots
Jun 11
We are super excited to share with you our initial release of Lucky Engine. We are building a robotics engine from the ground up to be what we wished we could find in a simulator before
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 11
How we rebuilt Draper Associates’ investing engine and workflows with an in-house AI stack 👇 Off-the-shelf CRMs, deal-flow “platforms,” automation suites are all great for box-ticking, not for the way we invest. We move fast, hunt edge cases, and lean on four decades of pattern
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Maxime Bucaille
@maxime_bucaille
Jun 10
Congrats to the OpenYield team on the $6M raise led by @levelmarkets Excited to be part of it with @DraperVC Bringing equity-style transparency, speed, and firm pricing to the $150T fixed-income market is exactly the kind of modernization bond trading needs.
Upstart Fixed-Income Trading Venue Gets LeveL Backing and Access
From bloomberg.com
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 9
In 1983, Heidi Roizen and her brother Peter Roizen founded T/Maker. It was a software company built to serve a market that barely existed yet. They started on CP/M and MS-DOS platforms, building digital image libraries. When Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984, they expanded
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 4
We backed Tesla before the money ran out, before the NUMMI plant, before 8.5 million cars. Here is how we got there. Ian Wright came by the DFJ office and gave Steve Jurvetson and Tim a ride in his WrightMobile, an early electric vehicle held together with PVC pipes and duct
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 4
Incredibly excited to be a part of NewLimit’s story. Their commitment to expanding human life is a mission that’s easy to get behind. Their medicine creation timeline has shrank from 10+ years to next year. Proud to be a part of the work that they’re doing! Congrats to Jacob
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 4
MONSTER CONTRACT WOW congrats @navierboat
Navier
@navierboat
Jun 3
100 electric hydrofoil boats. A ~$100M contract. We are building a first-of-its-kind water transit network to transform how people move across the Maldives. To scale this, we are partnering with Dubai-based JIH and its Maldives affiliate HARIM, led by Mohamed Ali Janah — a team
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Jun 2
Tim met Ted Leonsis at a Preview Travel board meeting. You know how some people walk into a room and everyone just feels better? That's Ted. In 1983, he had a near-death experience on an airplane. After landing safely, he sat down, and wrote out 101 life goals. All the things
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Tim Draper
@TimDraper
Jun 2
So excited about my latest investment in education with Edvisor (edvisor.ai)! They're shaking up higher ed at institutions like Berkeley, Duke and 50+ others! The $200B educational materials market has barely changed in decades, and there is an enormous opportunity
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