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:
- 329
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
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
- $350k–$5.9M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$25M
- Series B
- $3M–$50M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 52 (16%)
- FinTech 41 (12%)
- Financial Services 29 (9%)
- Blockchain 28 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (8%)
Stage
- Seed 118 (36%)
- Series A 58 (18%)
- Series B 27 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 25 (8%)
- Angel 17 (5%)
Country
- United States 159 (48%)
- United Kingdom 9 (3%)
- Canada 8 (2%)
- India 6 (2%)
- Singapore 6 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Wisecut helps content creators share engaging videos with automatic editing decisions, including removing pauses, creating subtitles translations, adding background music, and more. Using AI and voice recognition technology, Wisecut analyses dialog and makes automatic video editing decisions, delivering sharable content in just minutes.Thecompany is a graduate of Miami startup accelerator TheVentureCity’s Product Led Program. | $200K / Seed / Oct 14, 2026 | ||
| Our founders were trained at the epicenter of finance in the oldest, most prestigious club – Goldman Sachs. Shoulder-to-shoulder in the Real Estate Division, we spent 100-hour work weeks investing billions of dollars for the world’s wealthiest, old money establishments. With the little personal time we had, we tirelessly searched for a low-touchway to deploy our own capital into real estate. We found nothing. So, we built a solution, we used it, we loved it. Now we’re bringing it to you. | $15.5M / Series A / Oct 13, 2026 | ||
| Xverse develops a user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. It is available for Chrome on desktop and for iOS and Android. | Seed / Oct 05, 2026 | ||
| heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity. | Seed / Sep 15, 2026 | ||
| 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 owns a growing asset portfolio of top performing venture backed companies. It enters at Series B by helping early stage investors maintain their ownership in their best assets. The resulting portfolio is a top decile venture performer since inception in May 2023. SignalRank finances early stage investors’ pro-rata in qualifying Series B rounds through an automated process designed for speed, high-conviction selection, and partner-aligned economics. it can decide inside 24 hours and fund in less than a week. As a result SignalRank has 300+ seed partners who invite it to partner for pro-rata financing in their fastest growing companies. It sees a high percentage of all Series B term sheets prior to close. Capital is supplied from SignalRank’s balance sheet, with no capital calls or partner IC process delays. Check size correlates with capital available. SignalRank handles SPV setup and ongoing administration, with a target of moving from partner allocation request to funding in 5 business days. 20% of the profit on each investment goes directly to partners. SignalRank creates deal-by-deal SPVs; SignalRank does not charge management fees for this partner product. The portfolio can be seen at - https://signalrank.com/signalrank-index.html | $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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$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 | ||
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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 to later 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.
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 329 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 Tim Draper invest in?
Tim Draper typically joins rounds of $350k–$5.9M at Seed, $2.5M–$25M at Series A and $3M–$50M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Tim Draper's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Tim Draper took part in.
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When did Tim Draper last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Tim Draper closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 329 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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