DRAPER ASSOCIATES | 40+ Years Funding Transformative Tech | Icebreaker

Sign up or Log in

Teams

System

DRAPER ASSOCIATES | 40+ Years Funding Transformative Tech | Icebreaker

DRAPER ASSOCIATES | 40+ Years Funding Transformative Tech

DRAPER ASSOCIATES | 40+ Years Funding Transformative Tech

Draper Associates: 40+ years backing transformative companies from Tesla to Skype. We invest in AI, blockchain, biotech, and frontier tech that shapes industries. $2B AUM, 60+ unicorns.

22 members

Contact info

Link

draper.vc

Members

Melissa Forstell McAneny

•

Currently Director of Operations at Trunk Tools, transforming the $13 trillion construction industry. While at MIT Sloan, I co-founded Stack AI, a low-code generative AI platform. I worked as a materials engineering lead and product manager at SpaceX, developing a materials selection tool that helped SpaceX and Tesla engineers design better vehicles. My experience as a lead SpaceX materials engineer allowed me to manage stakeholders and engineers for commercial crew certification on NASA and Air Force missions, contributing to the advancement of human space flight. I also enjoy scuba diving, skiing, music, and traveling.

Stephanie Young

•

CEO & Cofounder at Pearson Labs | Forbes 30 Under 30 - Social Entrepreneurship

•

Investor and Advisor

•

MBA Candidate @ Columbia Business School | Ex-Senior Software Engineer @ Everlaw 💎 | Product Management | Venture Capital | Artificial Intelligence | Computer Vision

Clint McCoy, CFA

•

Founder + Real Estate Investor

•

Stablecoins, Credit, DeFi

David Cheishvili

•

•

Software Engineer @ Aptos

Daniel Sangyoon Kim

•

Columbia MBA Candidate | VC & Public Equity

•

As Draper Associates, founding partner at Draper Dragon, and chair of the executive committee for Draper University, I partner with global investors with tomorrow’s unicorns in dual-use tech, AI, biotech/healthcare, web3, defense tech, and more. If that’s you (whether you’re a family office, fund or founder), feel welcome to get in touch. After 20 years of venture investing across ten fund vintages at Draper, I've seeded over 15 technology unicorn companies in the software/AI, healthcare/biotech, crypto/fintech, and deep-tech spaces. My investment theses are built on my “ground-up” experience in deep tech, first working in R&D for semiconductor technologies at MIT and then moving into commercial operations at Intel during its generations of chip design dominance. I then moved into investment banking for tech companies (Credit Suisse), then corporate venture (Infineon Technologies and ABB). What made these companies successful, among other things, was the depth and quality of their early-stage backing. I wanted to be a part of this process at the earliest stage, and thus co-founded Draper Dragon with Tim Draper in 2006. Together, we also launched Draper Associates' first outside fund in 2014. I also manage DA’s limited partner co-investment program, as well as direct VCx, an invite-only alliance of family offices that promotes generational relationship-building, education, and investing. Seeded unicorns (*) and future unicorns include: Oklo* (NYSE: OKLO) NovelBeam* (SSE: 688677) Jing Jin Electric* (SSE: 688280) Coinbase* (NASDAQ: $COIN) Colossal Biosciences* Splashtop* Yeepay* Otter.ai* 1047 Games* Galxe* ($GAL) EtherFi* ($EETH) VeChain* ($VET) Certik* ($CTK) QuarkChain* ($QKC) QTUM* OASIS* ($ROSE) IOTEX* Clinchoice* EDDA* and: AltoBeam, Vicarious Artificial Intelligence, Broadbus (MOT), Unstoppable Domains, Firehawk, Venus Aerospace, Slingshot, Outpost, Maxspace, Carv ($CARV), HighStreet ($HIGH), Arkham ($ARKM), Tezos ($XTZ), Ripio ($RPC), Ledger, Gemini, Lemon Cash, CoinDCX, Gravitics, Iceye, Atomwise, NewLimit, Scout AI, Verge Genomics, Ten63 Therapeutics, Imprimed, Quoherent, Xanadu, and Pretty Litter.