# James Walker

> James Walker is a seed investor at Draper Associates (San Francisco) backing SaaS and Legal Tech. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Draper Associates](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/draper-associates-2)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Nov 2025
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamespatrickwalker

James Walker is an Associate Counsel and Investments at Draper Associates. He was a Business Development Intern at Brex. He attended Columbia Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 100% |
| Legal Tech | 1 | 100% |
| Intellectual Property | 1 | 100% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 1 | 100% |
| Natural Language Processing | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| NLPatent | NLPatent is a leading AI-based natural language patent search platform used by many Am Law 100 Firms and several Fortune 500 companies. The platform, built from a proprietary fine-tuned Large Language Model, allows users to describe inventions in full sentences, and generates results that are conceptually relevant to the query. NLPatent not onlygenerates results very quickly (seconds vs. hours), but it consistently outperforms human experts. It's an excellent resource for quickly evaluating patentability and conducting more in-depth freedom-to-operate and invalidity searches, often uncovering critical references missed by traditional approaches. NLPatent also offers "AI +Human" outsourcing services through their partnership with Arizona-based search firm, Global Patent Solutions, which can be ordered directly through the NLPatent app. This unique offering combines the expertise of professionally trained searchers with the speed and accuracy of the AI platform, which each analyst is trained to use as part of every search. | $3M | Seed | Nov 11, 2025 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Mighty Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mighty-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Storytime Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/storytime-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The 51 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-51-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [The LegalTech Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/the-legaltech-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Draper Associates

VC Fund · San Mateo, United States

Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies. They invest globally, in great teams of people creating revolutionary companies in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud, new finance, IOT, and mobile. Their portfolio companies disrupting markets in the tens of billions and are on a clear path tolater rounds of fundraising.Draper Associates encourages entrepreneurs to drive their businesses to greatness, to transform industries with new technologies, and to build platforms for extraordinary growth, jobs, and wealth creation. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, USA.

5 contacts available at Draper Associates.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Sangyoon Kim | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-sangyoon-kim |
| Aamer Sarfraz | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aamer-sarfraz |
| Andrew Tang | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-tang |
| James Walker | Associate Counsel and Investments | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-walker-4bfc |
| Kasha Akrami | Director of Scouts | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kasha-akrami-5337 |

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## FAQ

### What does James Walker invest in?

James Walker invests primarily in SaaS, Legal Tech and Intellectual Property startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did James Walker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for James Walker closed in Nov 2025. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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