Draper Associates

@DraperVC

Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.

California, USA

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Joined October 2015

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@AlefAeronautics started test production on the first flying car set for customer delivery within 12 months. Three more updates worth knowing: → Alef signed a Search and Rescue agreement with the world's largest fully volunteer EMS organization, which responds to more than
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Aug 12
ionetworks.co just became a @RedHat Certified Software Partner. They’re one of the only companies in Asia-Pacific to earn that status in Vision AI. Their flagship system, AIONXIS, is now live for enterprise and government buyers worldwide to find and deploy.
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Aug 11
@pauljzak built the field of neuroeconomics. For years his science lived in labs, translating oxytocin and dopamine signals into a read on what a brain actually values, second by second. Now it fits in a carrying case. ImmersionLive ships with 30 or 64 wearables. Wave one over
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Aug 6
Every drone that navigates by camera instead of GPS eventually runs into the same problem… Fly it over open water or a dense forest long enough and it loses its bearings. getVermeer.com fixed it. Their new feature, Recovery, lets a drone re-orient itself mid-flight
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Aug 5
Mitchell Hsing was a grad student at MIT, still running chip equipment from the 1980s that needed a floppy disk to boot up. That frustration became InchFab (inchfab.com), a shipping-container-size clean room that does almost everything a real fab does. It’s priced