Draper Fisher Jurvetson
VC Fund
Menlo Park, United States
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm that provides services to extraordinary entrepreneurs focusing on investments in enterprise, consumer, and disruptive technologies. To build iconic and lasting businesses, DFJ works with companies at seed, early, and growth stages. Growth investing at DFJ focuses on later-stage digital companiesthat are addressing huge market opportunities, scaling rapidly, and poised to command a dominant share of their respective categories.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 19%
- Fund size:
- $527M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Draper Fisher Jurvetson invests in
Stages Draper Fisher Jurvetson invests in
Countries Draper Fisher Jurvetson invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (24%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
- Analytics 3 (14%)
- FinTech 2 (10%)
- Medical 2 (10%)
Stage
- Series C 9 (43%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (14%)
- Seed 2 (10%)
- Series A 2 (10%)
- Series B 2 (10%)
Country
- United States 16 (76%)
- India 1 (5%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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John Fisher
Co-Founder & Partner
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Co-Founder & Partner | Total investments: 23 | Find email | |
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Johnna Lesch
CFO
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CFO | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Tim Draper
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 325 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| LaunchDarkly isn’t just a leader in feature management — it’s the first scalable feature management platform. Feature management allows development teams to innovate faster by fundamentally transforming how software is delivered to customers. With the ability to gradually release new software features to any segment of users on any platform, DevOpsteams can standardize safe releases at scale, accelerate their journey to the cloud and collaborate more effectively with business teams. Today, LaunchDarkly deploys peaks of 20 trillion feature flags each day, and that number continues to grow. Founded in 2014 in Oakland, California by Edith Harbaugh and John Kodumal, LaunchDarkly has been named on the Forbes Cloud 100 list, InfoWorld’s 2021 Technology of the Year list, and the Enterprise Tech 30 list. | $44M / Series C / Mar 13, 2019 | ||
| Optisys manufactures an RF design and metal additive to provide metal 3D printed antenna products for aerospace and defense applications. Its products enable groundbreaking system and product performance through low SWaP-C, and solution capability and are enabled by the novel design process and metal additive manufacturing for component production. | Seed / Feb 02, 2018 | ||
| Loftium is a technology startup that offers premium rental experiences at affordable rates with built-in income. It gives you a down payment in exchange for splitting Airbnb income in a spare room for 12-36 months. The startup uses Airbnb to provide innovative new paths to affordable housing. They find homes that have a separable short-term rentalspace and offer up to 50% discounted rent in exchange for managing the on-site Airbnb.Loftium makes money by collecting enough income from Airbnb customers. It furnishes the Airbnb units and helps renters to manage the listings. The company pays out the landlord at market rent with a long-term lease up to three years and keeps the excess income from the short-term rentals as a profit. It helps families in expensive cities live the lifestyle they want by offering a radically new type of affordable housing.Loftium was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA | $2.5M / Seed / Sep 20, 2017 | ||
| Remitly is a mobile payment service that enables consumers to conveniently make person-to-person international money transfers from the United States. Its online service is disrupting the $588 billion a year industry by using the latest technology and mobile devices to eliminate unnecessary forms, codes, agents, extra time, and fees tied to thetraditional money transfer process.As a licensed money transmitter, Remitly currently operates in 49 states and Washington, D.C., and spends millions of dollars to thousands of customers each month. Remitly is backed by Stripes Group, DFJ, Vulcan Capital, QED, Trilogy Equity Partners, DN Capital, Founders Co-Op, Bezos Expeditions, and TomorrowVentures. | $38.5M / Series C / Apr 26, 2016 | ||
| Livongo is a consumer digital health company that empowers people with chronic conditions to live a better life. It has developed a completely new approach to diabetes management that combines the latest technology with coaching. By offering the right information, tools, and support, at the right time, we provide our members with real-time,personalized insights, and support to make diabetes management easier. Its approach is leading to better financial and clinical outcomes while also creating a better experience for people with diabetes and their care team of family, friends, and medical professionals. It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $44.5M / Series C / Apr 12, 2016 | ||
| Designed to give you more control over the buildings you manage, increase efficiency and make you smarter about virtually everything in your commercial spaces, Enlighted converts the abstract Internet of Things into something tangible.Enlighted’s mission is to help our customers reach long-range sustainability goals while saving money andincreasing efficiency. Using our first-in-class sensor and analytics platform, we provide smart energy solutions for commercial buildings. Our technology reduces costs and improves the comfort of workspaces and the efficiency of the people who work in them.Our solutions go beyond theory. Customers are saving millions in energy costs - up to 70% in some instances - while making smarter business decisions based on the actionable data we provide. To date, our sensors have been installed in over 70,000 square-feet and are deployed in Fortune 1000 company workplaces, like AT&T and Oracle. | $25M / Series D / Feb 29, 2016 | ||
| Nervana focuses on building technology to power the next generation of intelligent applications. | $20.5M / Series A / Jun 04, 2015 | ||
| Chartbeat is a content intelligence platform for publishers that empowers companies to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms. The company helps digital publishing organizations understand what, within their content, is keeping people engaged. It shows visitors, loadtimes, and referring sites on a minute-by-minute basis. The service also provides alerts the second your Website crashes or slows to a crawl.The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York. | $15.5M / Series C / May 06, 2015 | ||
| Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. | $7M / Series B / Jan 26, 2015 | ||
| Edeniq, Inc. is a leading biotechnology company that develops processes for producing and measuring cellulosic ethanol from corn kernel fiber through its Intellulose technology. Edeniq’s Intellulose requires zero capital investment and is easily integrated into existing ethanol production facilities. Edeniq was established in 2008 and isheadquartered in Visalia, Calif. with a field office in Omaha, Neb. More information can be found at www.edeniq.com. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 20, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does Draper Fisher Jurvetson invest in?
Draper Fisher Jurvetson invests primarily in Software, Internet and Analytics startups, most often at Series C and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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Who are the partners at Draper Fisher Jurvetson?
The team at Draper Fisher Jurvetson includes John Fisher (Co-Founder & Partner), Johnna Lesch (CFO) and Tim Draper (Founder). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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