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
SkypeCommunications company, now a subsidiary of Microsoft.
VoIP
Software
Luxembourg City
SpaceXSpace Exploration Technologies Corporation, better known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
Public transport
Carta (company)Carta (formerly eShares) is a San Francisco based cap table management platform that offers 409A valuations, products for investors and public companies.
Financial services
San Francisco
TwilioA 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.
Application programming interface (API)
Telecommunication
California
United States
ZymergenZymergen, 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.
Machine learning
Robotics
Emeryville, California
Demo Day Funds
Box (company)A cloud content management company. It was founded in 2005 and has headquarters located in Redwood City, California.
Cloud computing
Redwood City, California
Memphis MeatsCompany making cultured meat based in San Francisco founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese and Will Clem.
Food technology
Cell-based meat
Synthetic biology
Cellular agriculture
Beef
Poultry
Biotechnology
GenomaticaA company specializing in scaling-up bioprocesses for the production of bio-based chemicals.
San Diego
DataRobotDataRobot 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.
Predictive analytics
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Boston
Tesla (company)Manufacturer of electric transportation, battery technology and renewable energy products.
Automotive industry
Renewable energy
Electric vehicle
Electric power
Palo Alto, California
Fremont, California
Glycos BiotechnologiesGlycos Biotechnologies, founded in 2007, now known as GlycosBio, is a biotechnology company based in Houston, Texas . GlycosBio Asia is a subsidiary based in Malaysia .
Houston
ZapierZapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use.
ViroolVirool is a company providing a programmatic video marketing platform.
Advertising
VerblingVerbling is a company providing an e-learning platform for language over video chat. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.
Curriculum
Education
AtomwiseAtomwise is a company that develops AI solutions for drug discovery.
MythicMythic is a U.S-based artificial intelligence hardware and software company.
Manufacturing
Artificial neural network
Austin, Texas
Epocrates
Healthcare
Meebo
Varolii
Seattle
Everspin TechnologiesA magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) manufacturing and distribution company. It is located in Chandler, Arizona and was founded in 2008.
Chandler, Arizona
Prosper
Credit (finance)
Personal finance
Peer-to-peer
ShareThis
Planet LabsPlanet Labs is a satellite imaging company, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, which offers monitoring with daily updates. It was founded in 2010.
Internet
TrialPayTrialPay is a Mountain View, California-based company.
Mountain View, CaliforniaAssociated investment funds
Menlo Park, CaliforniaPeople
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
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
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Anaplan
Financial Services
Chef
Software/Automation/Education
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Dawson Sewell
Seeking to explain science and technology through simple writing. - 2
Jessica Karpinski
I'm a knowledge seeker with a thirst to understand how the world is connected. - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 5
Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 6
Sarah Rioflorido
Working mom to two beautiful girls. With a background in Electronics Engineering and Administrative Assistance. - 7
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian
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Categories
Related Topics
Contributors
- 1
Dawson Sewell
Seeking to explain science and technology through simple writing. - 2
Jessica Karpinski
I'm a knowledge seeker with a thirst to understand how the world is connected. - 3
Neelam Jhaveri
Techno Geek + Gamer + Fashionista + Sense of Humor = It's ME - 4
Jed Christiansen
Special Projects & Business Development at Golden, Founder - Seed-DB. - 5
Carla Faraguna
Golden People and Operations. - 6
Sarah Rioflorido
Working mom to two beautiful girls. With a background in Electronics Engineering and Administrative Assistance. - 7
Melanie Manipula
Researcher, writer and a former librarian