Draper Fisher Jurveston is a venture capital firm making seed, venture, and growth investments in technology companies operating within enterprise and consumer-focused industries. Draper Fisher Jurveston has made capital investments in 27 companies who have exited at greater than $1 billion each. Notable companies include are Baidu, Hotmail, Twitter, and Skype.
Product
The company invests in early-stage and late-stage startups. It has two separate teams dedicated to the early (venture) entities and late-stage (growth) companies. It also aids entrepreneurs with recruiting, business development, and partnering. DFJ focuses on startups that create disruptive technologies in fields such as commercial space exploration, robotics, and sustainable transportation.Fields such as neuroscience and communications have also been added to the company's portfolio.
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Funded Companies
Communications company, now a subsidiary of Microsoft.
Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Carta (formerly eShares) is a San Francisco based cap table management platform that offers 409A valuations, products for investors and public companies.
A cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for global scale that was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Zymergen, founded in 2013 and located in Emeryville, California, is a technology company providing organisms engineering services. Their biotechnology labs rely on advanced manufacturing technologies, machine learning techniques, and genomics to accelerate the design, build, test cycle of microorganisms.
A cloud content management company. It was founded in 2005 and has headquarters located in Redwood City, California.
Company making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
A company specializing in scaling-up bioprocesses for the production of bio-based chemicals.
DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.
Manufacturer of electric transportation, battery technology and renewable energy products.
Glycos Biotechnologies, founded in 2007, now known as GlycosBio, is a biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas . GlycosBio Asia is a subsidiary based in Malaysia .
Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.
Virool is a company providing a programmatic video marketing platform.
Verbling is a company providing an e-learning platform for language over video chat. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.
Atomwise is a company that develops AI solutions for drug discovery.
Mythic is a U.S-based artificial intelligence hardware and software company.
A magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) manufacturing and distribution company. It is located in Chandler, Arizona and was founded in 2008.
Planet Labs is a satellite imaging company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, which offers monitoring with daily updates. It was founded in 2010.
TrialPay is a Mountain View, California-based company.
Associated investment funds
People
Andreas Stavropoulos
Partner and Venture Team
Barry Schuler
Partner and Growth Team
Bill Bryant
Employee
Blair Silverberg
Employee
Carol Wentworth
Marketing Partner
Chris Kelley
Principle
Chris Shanahan
Associate
Craig Chotalia
Principle
Emily Melton
Venture Team
Emily Melton
Partner
Heidi Roizen
Partner and Venture Team
Jade Tran
Director of Programs and Industry Relations
Jennifer Fonstad
Employee
Jesse Robbins
Employee
Jocelyn Kinsey
Principle
John H.B. Fisher
Founder, Partner, and Growth Team
Josh Stein
Partner and Venture Team
Katie Hughes
Employee
Kevin Tu
Associate
Kristen Faulkner
Associate
Mark Bailey
Partner and Growth Team
Mark Greenstein
Partner and CFO
Melisa Tucker
Employee
Meredith Tosta
Director of Business Operations
Mohammad Islam
Principle
Further reading
Backers of Tesla and SpaceX fund 29-year-old Alice Zhang's AI-powered neuroscience startup
Britanny Meiling
Web
DFJ Founder Stories - DFJVC - Medium
DFJ Founders
Web
More rare than a Unicorn -- gender parity at a venture-backed, deep-tech startup.
Heidi Roizen
Web
This health tech start-up refused to take money from VC firms unless they had a female partner
Christina Farr
Web
Yellowbrick Data exits stealth with $44M and an all-flash data warehouse - SiliconANGLE
Mike Wheatley
Web
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