# Draper

> Draper is a VC fund in Cambridge backing Security and Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Cambridge, United States
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/draper-laboratory
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/draperlab
- Website: https://www.draper.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DraperLaboratory

Draper is a non-profit laboratory focused on applied research, engineering development, education, and technology transfer.The laboratory provides engineering services directly to governments, industries, and academies; works on teams as a prime contractor or subcontractor; and participates as a collaborator in consortia. It also offersunbiased assessments of technology or systems designed or recommended by other organizations.Additionally, Draper is specialized in precision instrumentation; fault-tolerant, secure and assured, and autonomous systems; image and data analytics; human systems technology; materials engineering and microfabrication; and biomedical solutions.Draper was founded in 1973 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Security | 2 | 40% |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Cyber Security | 2 | 40% |
| CRM | 1 | 20% |
| Big Data | 1 | 20% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Series D | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 80% |
| Spain | 1 | 20% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Stark Draper | Founder | 0 | — |
| CJ Heres | Principal Vulnerability Researcher | 0 | — |
| Darryl G. Sargent | Vice President For National Security & Space Systems | 0 | — |
| Dorit S. Berlin | Program Manager | 0 | — |
| Joe Register | Researcher and Senior Member of Technical Staff | 0 | — |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Spiky.AI | Spiky.ai uses AI-based sentiment analysis to examine videos from online learnings/meetings in order to boost engagement. Founded in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. | $2.8M | Seed | Feb 25, 2025 |  |
| Bionline | Bionline is a company specialized in Business Intelligence and CRM. | $906K | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 26, 2021 |  |
| Dover Microsystems | Dover Microsystems brings real security, safety, and privacy enforcement to silicon. Its hardware-based technology empowers processors to protect themselves in real-time from the exploitation of software vulnerabilities that can stop all network-based attacks. The company's mission is to immunize the world’s processors against allnetwork-based attacks. CoreGuard, their unique silicon IP with proprietary micro policies, acts as a bodyguard to the host processor, monitoring every instruction executed to ensure it meets a set of security, safety, and privacy rules. With CoreGuard, a processor can actively stop entire classes of network-based attacks and prevent the exploitation of software vulnerabilities.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. | $6M | Seed | Feb 21, 2018 |  |
| Lexumo | Lexumo’s platform identifies and remediates software security vulnerabilities from companies’ embedded, enterprise, and cloud products. Lexumo’s analytics automatically perform massively-scalable, incredibly-fast software analysis to identify security vulnerabilities from the mistakes of the past. Today, Lexumo is deploying this technology toautomatically find open-source code in our customers’ software and identify security vulnerabilities within their products.Lexumo’s platform continuously monitors our customers’ code for existing and emerging vulnerabilities over the entire product lifecycle. Lexumo continuously monitor all popular vulnerability repositories to identify vulnerabilities in companies’ code before they result in a problem. Their analysis is fast, so whether a change is checked into the code base or a new vulnerability emerges in the wild, our customers get an instant alert. And when patches are released, Lexumo automatically back-ports the patch to help developers fix the problem when “just upgrade to the latest version” is not an option. | $4.9M | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |
| Genomatica | Genomatica develops biobased process technologies that enable a better way to produce widely-used chemicals, from alternative feedstocks, with better economics, sustainability, and performance. Genomatica has earned widespread acclaim for its technology; has commercialized processes for the chemical butanediol (for biodegradable plastics andapparel) and for butylene glycol (cosmetics and personal care), and is working on bio-nylon. Awards include the Kirkpatrick Award, for “the most noteworthy chemical engineering technology commercialized in the world” and the ICIS Innovation Award for its Brontide(TM) butylene glycol. | $41.5M | Series D | Aug 02, 2012 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [.406 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/406-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [43North](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/43-north) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
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- [Alloy Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alloy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [APY Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/apy-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [ENISA](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enisa-2) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Draper invest in?

Draper invests primarily in Security, Software and Cyber Security startups, most often at Seed and Series D stage. Most of the 5 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?

The team at Draper includes Charles Stark Draper (Founder), CJ Heres (Principal Vulnerability Researcher) and Darryl G. Sargent (Vice President For National Security & Space Systems), among 8 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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