Betting on the Future Before the World Catches Up
At Draper Associates, we don’t just invest in companies—we invest in the future. We back bold, visionary founders building transformational businesses long before the rest of the world believes in them.
We move early, primarily investing from pre-seed to Series A. We are industry-agnostic and stage-agnostic, investing across sectors, geographies, and technologies. But we have always been drawn to the frontier—the industries that are being built now that will define the next century. Some of these companies in the early days included Robinhood, Twitch, Hotmail, Baidu.
Founders First. Always Early.
We backed Tesla when electric vehicles were seen as niche, SpaceX when privatized space travel was unheard of, and Coinbase when crypto was dismissed as a fad. Our job isn’t to follow trends; it’s to see what others don’t, to make early, high-conviction bets on companies and founders that will fundamentally reshape the world.
OUR MAIN FOCUS
While we remain open to all industries, we are particularly excited about the leading-edge areas below that all integrate with one another to represent the biggest technological shifts happening today.