Draper Fisher Jurvetson

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Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies.

With the addition of Box’s IPO in 2015,^[1] DFJ has invested in a total of 23 companies that have exited with a valuation of more than $1 billion ^[2] including: Baidu, Skype, SolarCity, Tesla Motors, Tumblr, Twitter and Yammer.^[3] In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion dollar startups ^[4] with investments in Avant,^[5][6] Datastax,^[6][7] Redfin ^{[6] [8]} and SimpliVity.^[6][9]

History

DFJ was founded in 1985^[4] by three founding partners are by Timothy C. Draper, John H.N. Fisher, and Steve Jurvetson.

The firm has also invested in Anaplan,^[10] Chef,^[11] Coinbase,^[12] Foursquare,^[13] Mapbox,^[14] Planet Labs,^[15] Shift,^[16] SpaceX,^[17] SugarCRM,^[18] Tango,^[19] Theranos,^[20] Twin Prime,^[21] and Yodle.^[22]

As of October 2015, DFJ is one of the six largest and most active investors in the space sector, which has had over US$10 billion of private capital invested in it since 2005.^[23]

Organization

Partners of the Venture team include: William Bryant,^[24] Steve Jurvetson, Emily Melton,^[25] Bubba Murarka,^[26] Andreas Stavropoulos,^[27] and Josh B. Stein.^[28] Partners of the Growth team include: Mark Bailey,^[29] John H. N. Fisher, Randy Glein,^[30] and Barry Schuler. Heidi Roizen is the firm’s Operating Partner.^[31]

The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, and is currently investing DFJ Venture XI, a $325M fund,^[32] and DFJ Growth’s second fund of $470M,^[33] with closed in 2014. DFJ’s core funds have raised more than $4 billion, deployed in more than 300 companies.^[27]

References

External links

• Official site

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