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.
Timeline
Associated investment funds
DFJ
Menlo Park, CaliforniaFunded Companies
Skype
Messaging application
Luxembourg City
Zymergen
Software
Machine learning
Robotics
Emeryville, California
SpaceX
Genomatica
San Diego
Carta (company)
Financial services
Glycos Biotechnologies
Biotechnology
Houston
Epocrates
Healthcare
Prosper
Credit (finance)
Personal finance
Peer-to-peer
Meebo
Molecular Imprints
Hardware
Technorati
Advertising
Planet Labs
Internet
San Francisco
Everspin Technologies
Manufacturing
Chandler, Arizona
Yammer
Zapier
Application programming interface (API)
California
United States
InsightSquared (company)
Richrelevance
Big data
Tesla, Inc.
Automotive industry
Renewable energy
Electric vehicle
Electric power
Palo Alto, California
Fremont, California
SugarCRM
Open-source software
Cupertino, California
Ping Identity
Security
Chartbeat
Data visualization
New York City
enLighted
WaterSmart Software (company)
Redfin
Seattle
Spiral Genetics
BioinformaticsPeople
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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Companies
Anaplan
Financial Services
References
DFJ
Company
Tim Draper
Venture capital
Digital mediaCategories
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
