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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

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Maxime Bucaille
@maxime_bucaille
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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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@DraperVC
Jun 2
We're excited to lead Edvisor's Pre-Seed round. They're taking on the dinosaurs of the textbook industry and reinventing learning for the AI-era. Students are paying $150 for a static textbook they barely use. Degrees keep getting more expensive without teaching students skills
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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
May 28
The best pitch Tim ever heard came from a guy swimming in a pool. 🏊‍♂️ Jim Hornthal, founder of Preview Travel, swam over to Tim in John Goodrich's pool and started talking fast. Tim had to slow him down just to make sense of his ramblings. According to Tim… that's usually a
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@DraperVC
May 26
We got about 1,000 applicants for our Hawai’i episode. 🤙 Four made it on stage. Last week, we filmed Season 10 of Meet the Drapers in Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi, with the Ko'olau Mountains behind us. Marc Benioff and Chenoa Farnsworth from Blue Startups joined as guest judges and
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Gene Smith
@GeneSmi96946389
May 22
A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
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Tim Draper
@TimDraper
May 22
Bitcoin is the largest idle asset in the world. I backed Zest Protocol because they're the team putting BTC to work. BTC-backed lending is a trillion dollar market and @ZestProtocol has the track record to win it.
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Zest Protocol
@ZestProtocol
May 21
$1.5T in BTC sits idle. Borrowing against it without giving up custody changes that. Zest Protocol lead investor @TimDraper on what the team means for the Bitcoin economy.
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