Adam Draper
Founder & Managing Director @ Boost VC
San Francisco, United States
Adam Draper is a seed investor at Boost VC in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Adam Draper is the CEO and Founder of Boost, a startup accelerator. He has invested in companies, started companies, and more. Adam Draper is a fourth generation venture capitalist and Super Smash player. He also co-founded Xpert Financial while still in his senior year at UCLA. Before starting Boost, he invested in 20 companies, including Coinbase, Plangrid, and Practice Fusion. Adam Draper’s favorite movie is Notting Hill and his favorite pizza joint is Round Table. He is also interested in making pickles. Adam Draper currently resided in San Francisco.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 38%
Last updated:
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Industries Adam Draper invests in
Stages Adam Draper invests in
Countries Adam Draper invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Seed
- $500k–$6.1M
- Pre-Seed
- $500k–$2.1M
- Series A
- $6.3M–$23M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 6 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 5 (11%)
- Gaming 4 (9%)
- FinTech 4 (9%)
- Information Technology 4 (9%)
Stage
- Seed 23 (49%)
- Pre-Seed 10 (21%)
- Series A 3 (6%)
- Convertible Note 3 (6%)
- Angel 2 (4%)
Country
- United States 27 (57%)
- United Kingdom 2 (4%)
- Spain 1 (2%)
- Canada 1 (2%)
- Norway 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Elita platform combines dog stem cells with health data to help predict, prevent, and treat disease before symptoms appear. | $1.4M / Seed / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Nyad is an AI-powered software platform that assists wastewater treatment plants in more efficiently testing and treating conditions. It helps treatment operators maintain microbiological balance, allowing to eliminate wastewater pollutants as effectively as feasible. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 10, 2026 | ||
| Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $300M / Series D / Dec 17, 2025 | ||
| ego AI is a technology platform focused on creating persistent, human-like AI characters capable of moving across multiple digital experiences, enabling ongoing relationships and emergent storytelling that feels lifelike. | $6.7M / Seed / Oct 16, 2025 | ||
| AI Digital Twin Personas | $600K / Pre-Seed / Aug 03, 2025 | ||
| m00m world develops mobile games. | $500K / Pre-Seed / Jul 21, 2025 | ||
| AIsa is the capability layer for the Agentic Economy. Everything AI agents need to reason, act, and transact. Pay per call. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jul 01, 2025 | ||
| Radiant is a technology company that develops portable nuclear microreactors designed to generate electricity and heat in a compact, factory-built form. The company’s flagship product, Kaleidos, is engineered to be transportable to customer sites and to replace traditional power sources such as diesel generators for applications including backuppower and continuous energy supply. Radiant manages design, assembly, fueling, and testing of its reactors with a focus on modular deployment and energy generation without on-site water requirements. It also undertakes infrastructure planning for reactor production facilities to support broader availability of its microreactors. Radiant engages with regulatory processes and industry partners to advance testing and commercialization of its nuclear energy solutions. | $165M / Series C / Nov 14, 2024 | ||
| Mycosoft is pioneering a new frontier in environmental and mycological technology by developing tools that enable live data collection, analysis, and interaction with fungal ecosystems. | $50K / Convertible Note / Oct 01, 2024 | ||
| Commoditizing machine learning. Amplify revenue, refine focus. | $546.5K / Pre-Seed / May 23, 2024 | ||
| See all 47 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
About Boost VC
Boost VC is an early stage venture capital firm with $200m AUM+, investing in deep tech: aerospace, VR/AR, energy, climate, robotics, crypto, bio/health, AI/ML & more. Boost VC leads the first round of $2M or less.
Boost VC Contacts
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Erin Gray
Mentor
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Aaron Stanton
Mentor
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Adam Draper
Founder & Managing Director
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Ashutosh Priyadarshy
Portfolio Company
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Brayton Williams
Co-Founder and Partner
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FAQ
What does Adam Draper invest in?
Adam Draper invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Gaming startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Adam Draper invest in?
Adam Draper typically joins rounds of $500k–$6.1M at Seed, $500k–$2.1M at Pre-Seed and $6.3M–$23M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Adam Draper's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Adam Draper took part in.
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When did Adam Draper last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Adam Draper closed in Sep 2026. Shizune tracks 47 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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