We are super excited to share with you our initial release of Lucky Engine. We are building a robotics engine from the ground up to be what we wished we could find in a simulator before
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Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.
How we rebuilt Draper Associates’ investing engine and workflows with an in-house AI stack 👇 Off-the-shelf CRMs, deal-flow “platforms,” automation suites are all great for box-ticking, not for the way we invest. We move fast, hunt edge cases, and lean on four decades of pattern- Draper Associates reposted
Congrats to the OpenYield team on the $6M raise led by @levelmarkets Excited to be part of it with @DraperVC Bringing equity-style transparency, speed, and firm pricing to the $150T fixed-income market is exactly the kind of modernization bond trading needs. - In 1983, Heidi Roizen and her brother Peter Roizen founded T/Maker. It was a software company built to serve a market that barely existed yet. They started on CP/M and MS-DOS platforms, building digital image libraries. When Apple launched the Macintosh in 1984, they expanded
- We backed Tesla before the money ran out, before the NUMMI plant, before 8.5 million cars. Here is how we got there. Ian Wright came by the DFJ office and gave Steve Jurvetson and Tim a ride in his WrightMobile, an early electric vehicle held together with PVC pipes and duct
- Incredibly excited to be a part of NewLimit’s story. Their commitment to expanding human life is a mission that’s easy to get behind. Their medicine creation timeline has shrank from 10+ years to next year. Proud to be a part of the work that they’re doing! Congrats to Jacob
- MONSTER CONTRACT WOW congrats @navierboat100 electric hydrofoil boats. A ~$100M contract. We are building a first-of-its-kind water transit network to transform how people move across the Maldives. To scale this, we are partnering with Dubai-based JIH and its Maldives affiliate HARIM, led by Mohamed Ali Janah — a team
- Tim met Ted Leonsis at a Preview Travel board meeting. You know how some people walk into a room and everyone just feels better? That's Ted. In 1983, he had a near-death experience on an airplane. After landing safely, he sat down, and wrote out 101 life goals. All the things
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So excited about my latest investment in education with Edvisor (edvisor.ai)! They're shaking up higher ed at institutions like Berkeley, Duke and 50+ others! The $200B educational materials market has barely changed in decades, and there is an enormous opportunity
- We're excited to lead Edvisor's Pre-Seed round. They're taking on the dinosaurs of the textbook industry and reinventing learning for the AI-era. Students are paying $150 for a static textbook they barely use. Degrees keep getting more expensive without teaching students skills
- The best pitch Tim ever heard came from a guy swimming in a pool. 🏊♂️ Jim Hornthal, founder of Preview Travel, swam over to Tim in John Goodrich's pool and started talking fast. Tim had to slow him down just to make sense of his ramblings. According to Tim… that's usually a
- We got about 1,000 applicants for our Hawai’i episode. 🤙 Four made it on stage. Last week, we filmed Season 10 of Meet the Drapers in Kāneʻohe, Hawaiʻi, with the Ko'olau Mountains behind us. Marc Benioff and Chenoa Farnsworth from Blue Startups joined as guest judges and
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A friend of mine had her embryos screened by Herasight and they found one with an IQ score in the 99.99th percentile
