Tim Draper
Founder and Managing Partner @ Draper Associates
San Francisco, United States
Tim Draper is a seed investor at Draper Associates in San Francisco focused on Software and FinTech. Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
- Total investments:
- 320
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 34%
Last updated:
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Industries Tim Draper invests in
Stages Tim Draper invests in
Countries Tim Draper invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $356k–$6.5M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$25M
- Series B
- $3M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 41 (13%)
- FinTech 35 (11%)
- Financial Services 25 (8%)
- SaaS 22 (7%)
- Mobile 22 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 100 (31%)
- Series A 49 (15%)
- Series B 27 (8%)
- Funding Round 24 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 22 (7%)
Country
- United States 140 (44%)
- United Kingdom 9 (3%)
- Canada 7 (2%)
- India 6 (2%)
- Singapore 5 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics. | $500K / Jun 19, 2026 | ||
| SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio. | $26.5M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| AIsa is the capability layer for the Agentic Economy. Everything AI agents need to reason, act, and transact. Pay per call. | $5M / Seed / May 31, 2026 | ||
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CASIMIR
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$12M / Seed / May 12, 2026 | ||
| Exobiosphere is a cutting-edge company operating at the intersection of space exploration and biotechnology. | $1M / Seed / Apr 01, 2026 | ||
| heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity. | $10.4M / Seed / Mar 28, 2026 | ||
| MightyFly is enabling worldwide access to goods with fast, on-demand delivery services for businesses and consumers. We’re putting the infrastructure in place to connect remote locations together with long range, heavy cargo aircraft. Many areas in the world today suffer from an inability to obtain critical and often urgently needed goods andsupplies at an affordable cost. Our goal at MightyFly is to solve this problem through express, customized aerial drone delivery services. MightyFly drones will transport cargo to multiple locations in a single flight across hundreds of miles of remote terrain that is difficult if not impossible to cross with trucks or other ground vehicles. We are developing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) drones that fly more than 300 miles, and carry payloads in excess of 50 pounds at a fraction of the cost of helicopters. Featuring automated cargo loading and unloading, and requiring no launch or recovery infrastructure, MightyFly drones will accommodate ad-hoc deliveries to undeveloped sites as well as servicing locations along established routes. | $10M / Seed / Feb 12, 2026 | ||
| Natilus is a large scale drone manufacturing company. The company specializes in the manufacturing of Boeing 747 sized drones which provides inter-continental cargo delivery services and helps in reducing air freight costs. Natilus was founded by LZ Zhang, Anatoly Starikov and Aleksey Matyushev in 2016.First flight of their 2200 lbs / 30 ftdrone is scheduled for Summer 2018. At the end of 2018, Natilus completed a flight test of their 2200 lbs prototype.The first production vehicle scheduled for 2020 customer delivery underwent wind tunnel testing in April, 2019. Natilus currently holds an aircraft order book rumored to be in excess of $1B+. | $28M / Series A / Feb 10, 2026 | ||
| Seagate Space is an aerospace company that provides offshore rocket launch solutions for the space industry. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| BacAlt is a biotechnology startup based in Bengaluru, India, that specializes in creating sustainable biopolymers and bio-based actives from post-harvest agricultural waste. Using proprietary fermentation technology, BacAlt turns agricultural residues into high-purity bacterial polymers, pioneering eco-friendly alternatives to traditional syntheticmaterials. The company focuses on sustainability by valorizing agricultural waste streams to produce innovative bacterial polymer solutions for various industrial applications. | $250K / Dec 30, 2025 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Draper Associates
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.
Draper Associates Contacts
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Daniel Sangyoon Kim
Analyst
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Aamer Sarfraz
Venture Partner
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Andrew Tang
Partner
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James Walker
Associate Counsel and Investments
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Kasha Akrami
Director of Scouts
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FAQ
What does Tim Draper invest in?
Tim Draper invests primarily in Software, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 320 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Tim Draper's check size?
Tim Draper typically joins rounds of $356k–$6.5M at Seed, $2.5M–$25M at Series A and $3M–$50M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Tim Draper participates in.
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When did Tim Draper last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tim Draper closed in Jun 2026. Shizune tracks 320 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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