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Draper Associates
@DraperVC
Funding the future first, before the world catches up. Early-stage VC firm.
California, USA
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    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
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    Aug 4
    94% of neurology drugs fail in the clinic because doctors can't see inside a living brain the way they can biopsy a tumor. Our portfolio company, @Verge_Labs, just unveiled vBx-1.0, a foundation model that reconstructs the molecular state of a patient's brain from a routine blood
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    Aug 3
    @goautolane just launched in Austin. It’s 13 Tesla Model Ys making autonomous restaurant deliveries, and it's live now with @tsodelivery. Founder @ben_seidl calls it air traffic control for driverless cars. It tells a business which vehicle is arriving, routes it to the right
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    Jul 31
    @LongshotSpace just earned a spot in the @usairforce's Velocity Alliance. Longshot is solving a problem the entire defense industry has: hypersonic testing is too slow and too expensive. The old way is to build a missile, fire it once, get one data point, start over.
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