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Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm. In January 2019, DFJ Venture, the early-stage team, spun out and formed Threshold Ventures. DFJ Growth continues to be managed by co-founder John Fisher and co-founders Mark Bailey, Randy Glein, and Barry Schuler.
- 1985
- Heidi Roizen
- Menlo Park, California, United States
Draper Associates was founded in 1985 by Tim Draper, founder of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firm known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson (“DFJ”). Draper Associates functioned as Tim’s personal investment vehicle until 2015 when he opened the firm to outside Limited Partners for the first time with the launch of Draper Associates V.
Draper Fisher Associates was launched in 1992. Steve Jurvetson would later join as an investor. The firm came to be known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). The team would go on to invest in category defining companies such as Tesla, SpaceX, Skype, Baidu, and many others.
May 19, 2017 · Tim Draper, from SBIC “dirt list” to “venture capitalist of the year” and building Draper Fisher Jurvetson... Just in time, the IPO window opened, five of his companies went public, and he went from the “dirt” list to being SBIC’s “venture capitalist of the year.”
Stephen T. Jurvetson (born March 1, 1967) is an American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. Formerly a partner of the firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), he was an early investor in Hotmail, Memphis Meats, Mythic and Nervana Systems. He is currently a board member of SpaceX and served on Tesla's board from 2006–2020, among others ...
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- Founder and managing director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Co-founder, Future Ventures
- Stephen T. Jurvetson, March 1, 1967 (age 56), Arizona, U.S.
From this heritage emerged the modern DFJ, a firm co-founded by Tim Draper, John Fisher, and Steve Jurvetson. They developed a reputation for being innovative, forward-looking and fearless, embracing change and bold new ideas as they backed disruptive startups like Baidu, Hotmail, and Skype.
DFJ is a venture capital firm that partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs who are changing the world. Since 1985, DFJ's core funds have raised $4B, which has been deployed in more than 300...
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