Timothy Draper

Bio

Tim Draper founded Draper Associates in July, 1985, which when joined by John Fisher and Steve Jurvetson became the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (now DFJ). Investments include Skype, Hotmail, Tesla, Baidu, Theranos, and Overture, among many others. With Draper Associates, investments include Twitch.TV, YeePay, Indiegogo, Docusign, Parametric Technology and AngelList. He is the creator of viral marketing, a marketing method for spreading a software application from customer to customer, instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and Skype among hundreds of others including Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. He founded the DFJ/Draper Network, a global network of venture funds who work together to improve service to entrepreneurs, covering 30 cities around the world. He has been listed as #46 of the most outstanding Harvard alumni, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, #1 Most Networked Venture Capitalist by Always On, and #98 on the 2014 Worth Magazine 100 Most Powerful People in Finance. He has won numerous awards and honors and is regularly featured in the press as a leading supporter of entrepreneurship. Tim Draper received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University with a major in electrical engineering and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. In 1994, Tim created a non­profit for young children to learn about business and entrepreneurship called BizWorld, a 501c3. In 2011, he created Draper University of Heroes, a residential and online school based in San Mateo, Ca to help extraordinary people accomplish their life missions.

Career

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	DFJ Gotham Ventures - founder Managing Director Email: [email protected]
	VenturesLab - founder N/A
	Draper Associates - founder Early-stage venture capital firm. Managing Partner Email: [email protected]
	DFJ Mercury Senior Advisor Email: [email protected]
	DFJ DragonFund China Managing Director Email: [email protected]
	Draper Triangle Ventures Early stage venture capital firm. Managing Director Email: [email protected]
	Timberline Venture Partners Advisory General Partner
	Zone Ventures Management Co LLC Managing Director
	Wavemaker Partners LLC Early stage venture capital firm with offices in Los Angeles and Singapore. Member of the Advisory Board
	Draper Fisher Jurvetson - founder Early stage information technology venture capital firm. Managing Director (past) Email: [email protected]
	Hewlett-Packard Co One of the world's largest information technology companies Marketing Engineer (past)

Selected investments

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Company		Profile	Country	Date	Funding
	Clearbridge Accelerator		Singapore	2 Aug 2011	N/A
	DivX Inc	Video-encoding software company.	United States	1 May 2004	Series C Initial investment
	DivX Inc	Video-encoding software company.	United States	1 Jun 2002	Series B Initial investment
	DivX Inc	Video-encoding software company.	United States	1 Sep 2000	Series A Initial investment
	Factom Inc	Blockchain startup that "secures data via decentralization".	United States	4 Oct 2016	Series A led the round
	OpenNode Inc	Simple Bitcoin payment processor for any business.		8 Feb 2022	Series A Initial investment
	Rigetti & Co Inc (Rigetti Quantum Computing), (Rigetti Computing)	Developer of quantum computing for AI and computational chemistry	United States	15 Apr 2014	Seed Initial investment
	Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc	Canadian quantum computing hardware and software company.	Canada	25 May 2021	Series B Follow-on investment
	Zopa Ltd	Peer-to-peer money lending service that allows lenders and borrowers to deal directly with one another, cutting out the banks who act as middlemen.	United Kingdom	12 Jul 2006	Series B
	Path Inc	Social networking site	United States	1 Nov 2010	Seed Initial investment Exited