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Draper Associates

@DraperVC

Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.

The year is 2025. We can land rockets on drone ships. But moving a container from that ship to a train? Still takes 7 steps, 4 vehicles, and weeks of waiting. @GlidTech is combining trains and trucks aaaaand they won Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt. Glīd just beat out…


Privacy in crypto has always been a paradox. You either accept terrible UX for privacy, or you accept zero privacy for convenience. We invested in @Hinkal_protocol because they're solving this. The problem isn't just privacy. It's everything you lose when you choose it. Most…


When we backed @JonChest and the @Bitwage team in 2015, most people thought using @Bitcoin for payroll was somewhere between "impossible" and "insane." Bitwage spent the last 11 years quietly building something the market is now desperate for: Infrastructure that can pay teams…

DraperVC's tweet image. When we backed @JonChest and the @Bitwage team in 2015, most people thought using @Bitcoin for payroll was somewhere between "impossible" and "insane."

Bitwage spent the last 11 years quietly building something the market is now desperate for: Infrastructure that can pay teams…

Congrats to @VenusAerospace on the @LockheedMartin Ventures investment! Venus is one of our portfolio companies, and they just announced this partnership at the Axios Future of Defense Summit. They're the only company in the world with a flight-proven, high-thrust rotating…


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We are proud to announce that Rise has just surpassed $1 Billion in Total Payroll Volume $1,000,000,000 in total payroll processed across 190+ countries. After several years since launch, earlier this year we celebrated $500M. Now just nine months later, we’ve doubled this…


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From an idea born in Argentina to a quantum acquisition 🚀 We backed @SkyloomG when building the space internet sounded like science fiction. Now it’s part of @IonQ_Inc, proof that deep tech founders from LATAM can shape civilization’s future.

DraperCygnus's tweet image. From an idea born in Argentina to a quantum acquisition 🚀

We backed @SkyloomG when building the space internet sounded like science fiction.

Now it’s part of @IonQ_Inc, proof that deep tech founders from LATAM can shape civilization’s future.

Draper Co, @Mappa_ai, just made @TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield 200. Then they made the Top 20. Then @Forbes and TechCrunch both wrote profile pieces on them. All in the same week. The problem they're solving is massive: Hiring is broken. Companies are spending 40+ hours…


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🚀 BIG NEWS: Maestro launches Mezzamine – the FIRST #Bitcoin-native yield platform powered by Proof-of-Work! Earn yield on your BTC by financing miners' hashrate expansion. Already >1,000 BTC ($105M+) in committed demand from miners. 🧵 👇

GoMaestroOrg's tweet image. 🚀 BIG NEWS: Maestro launches Mezzamine – the FIRST #Bitcoin-native yield platform powered by Proof-of-Work!

Earn yield on your BTC by financing miners' hashrate expansion. Already >1,000 BTC ($105M+) in committed demand from miners.
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Draper Goren Blockchain ( @DGBVentures ) just opened its second office in Troy, Michigan. First office outside of LA and a strategic move into the mortgage capital of the country. Draper Goren Blockchain's new office at 3221 W. Big Beaver Road will serve as a strategic hub for…


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1/ Stablecoins moved $9T in 2025 — 87% YoY growth, already over half of Visa’s volume. 🤯 Not a trend. A structural shift. Today @Paystand just acquired @Bitwage to bring stablecoins to B2B: programmable, borderless, always on. 🧵👇 axios.com/pro/fintech-de…


Congratulations to Draper Portfolio Company Bitwage!

Big news: @Bitwage has been acquired by @Paystand — one of the world’s leading blockchain payment networks processing $20B+ in volume. ⚡ This isn’t just a business milestone — it’s a deeply personal one. Over ten years ago, we set out to fix something broken in how people get…



4 generations of VC. 63 unicorns. Invested in the company that cloned Tom Brady's dog. Not a bad resume for Draper Associates :)

Tom Brady revealed that his current dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua, who died in December 2023, per @baileykrich 🤯 The dogs were cloned by Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company that Brady is an investor in, using blood collected prior to Lua's death

BleacherReport's tweet image. Tom Brady revealed that his current dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua, who died in December 2023, per @baileykrich 🤯

The dogs were cloned by Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company that Brady is an investor in, using blood collected prior to Lua's death


We have a new unicorn in our portfolio. @Polymarket has reached a $9 billion valuation following a $2 billion investment from ICE, owner of the NYSE. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s IDEA → UNICORN in 5 years. 🦄 This partnership marks a defining moment for the future…


Huge congratulations to Draper company @EquityZen on being acquired by @MorganStanley. EquityZen has been opening access to the private markets for over a decade: connecting investors and employees to the world’s fastest-growing startups long before IPO. This acquisition shows…


What people think VCs look like vs what we actually look like…

DraperVC's tweet image. What people think VCs look like vs what we actually look like…
DraperVC's tweet image. What people think VCs look like vs what we actually look like…

Our portfolio company, @heySati, just launched a partnership with @Spark, a @Bitcoin L2 company backed by @Lightspark (the team powering Bitcoin payments for @Coinbase, @NuBank, and @Bitso). The first product: @BitBit_bot, an X bot that lets you tip people in Bitcoin directly in…

DraperVC's tweet image. Our portfolio company, @heySati, just launched a partnership with @Spark, a @Bitcoin L2 company backed by @Lightspark (the team powering Bitcoin payments for @Coinbase, @NuBank, and @Bitso).

The first product: @BitBit_bot, an X bot that lets you tip people in Bitcoin directly in…

The company that's pioneering AI-driven precision medicine for oncology just announced three massive milestones. @Imprimedicine has appointed Valerie Goodwin-Adams as Chief Commercial Officer to spearhead commercial expansion, leveraging her extensive experience in scaling…


Petal Surgical just raised $10 million, and we’re backing a vision that could fundamentally change surgery. Prash Chopra (an engineer who worked at Intuitive Surgical and UCSF) decided to start a company focused on making surgery less invasive after his father died from a…


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Tim Draper will be joining the @streamdrapertv stream on Pump.Fun, details coming soon. He’s coming on stream to connect with the Pump community, talk all things crypto, hear your pitches, and even answer audience questions! Stay tuned & don’t miss it! Date,…


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DraperTV is Now Live Streaming on @pumpdotfun At @StreamDraperTV, we’re always looking to explore new frontiers, and that includes experimenting with emerging crypto platforms that bring creators and communities closer together. You can now watch all our content on @pumpdotfun


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