Draper Associates
@DraperVC
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Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.
California, USA
Joined October 2015
1/ Stablecoins moved $9T in 2025 — 87% YoY growth, already over half of Visa’s volume. 🤯 Not a trend. A structural shift. Today @Paystand just acquired @Bitwage to bring stablecoins to B2B: programmable, borderless, always on. 🧵👇 https://t.co/QzLF2FyMyH
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Stablecoin rails are going mainstream for global trade.
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Congratulations to Draper Portfolio Company Bitwage!
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4 generations of VC. 63 unicorns. Invested in the company that cloned Tom Brady's dog. Not a bad resume for Draper Associates :)
Tom Brady revealed that his current dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua, who died in December 2023, per @baileykrich 🤯 The dogs were cloned by Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company that Brady is an investor in, using blood collected prior to Lua's death
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We have a new unicorn in our portfolio. @Polymarket has reached a $9 billion valuation following a $2 billion investment from ICE, owner of the NYSE. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s IDEA → UNICORN in 5 years. 🦄 This partnership marks a defining moment for the future
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Huge congratulations to Draper company @EquityZen on being acquired by @MorganStanley. EquityZen has been opening access to the private markets for over a decade: connecting investors and employees to the world’s fastest-growing startups long before IPO. This acquisition shows
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Investment banking giant Morgan Stanley said on Wednesday it will buy private shares platform EquityZen, as Wall Street races to meet growing investor demand for stakes in fast-growing startups.
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What people think VCs look like vs what we actually look like…
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Our portfolio company, @heySati, just launched a partnership with @Spark, a @Bitcoin L2 company backed by @Lightspark (the team powering Bitcoin payments for @Coinbase, @NuBank, and @Bitso). The first product: @BitBit_bot, an X bot that lets you tip people in Bitcoin directly in
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The company that's pioneering AI-driven precision medicine for oncology just announced three massive milestones. @Imprimedicine has appointed Valerie Goodwin-Adams as Chief Commercial Officer to spearhead commercial expansion, leveraging her extensive experience in scaling
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Petal Surgical just raised $10 million, and we’re backing a vision that could fundamentally change surgery. Prash Chopra (an engineer who worked at Intuitive Surgical and UCSF) decided to start a company focused on making surgery less invasive after his father died from a
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Tim Draper will be joining the @streamdrapertv stream on https://t.co/nn586KoBof, details coming soon. He’s coming on stream to connect with the Pump community, talk all things crypto, hear your pitches, and even answer audience questions! Stay tuned & don’t miss it! Date,
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DraperTV is Now Live Streaming on @pumpdotfun At @StreamDraperTV, we’re always looking to explore new frontiers, and that includes experimenting with emerging crypto platforms that bring creators and communities closer together. You can now watch all our content on @pumpdotfun
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Welcome to Draper TV, a pioneering hub for startup enthusiasts. We aim to democratize knowledge, offering diverse, curated content that sparks creativity and ignites entrepreneurial spirit. Join us...
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Proud portfolio company moment. @VVaterglobal just won TIME's Best Invention of 2025. Not to brag, but… they also won the CES Best of Innovation Award and the World Future Award in the same year. No company has ever done that. Water isn't sexy. It's not AI. It's not crypto.
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After building for over 3 years, we’re proud to announce our $3.2M seed round led by Tim Draper and joined by Borderless, Semantic, Smape, VeryEarly, Reverie, and angels including Anatoly Yakovenko and Joe McCann. See our feature on CNBC: https://t.co/GrysYyq5NP
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[CMC Live] Bitcoin and the Future of Investing with Tim Draper. ⏰ October 16th, 3pm UTC 📍 Set a reminder: https://t.co/GGhbrZG89b 🔥 Billionaire investor @TimDraper breaks down why he is so bullish on Bitcoin, blockchain and AI.
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Why do we invest in crypto? @Bitcoin is more than digital currency. It represents a fundamental shift in how we think about value, ownership, trust, and freedom. Blockchains and cryptocurrencies are enabling, for the first time in history, any individual to have a choice over
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Lunar mining isn’t far off from future sci-fi. We’ll see it in the 2030s. Draper portfolio companies like @mightyflydrone and @GraviticsInc are already developing autonomous EVTOL cargo aircraft and large space structures. Some investors think it’s crazy. We know it’s
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In 1985 I rode down Sand Hill Road on an elephant to open DFJ's first office. 40 years later, no elephant, but we just opened our first New York Draper office. Since 1985, we have: - Invested in 2,000+ founders globally - Created 400,000+ jobs, with approximately 4,000,000
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This 10-person laser company just secured $10M. Draper just backed @aureliuslasers. Aurelius Systems started 2 years ago with one focus… counter-drone lasers. Their CEO said, "We go out and test for one- and two-stars at these military bases. They see a drone explode, and then
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