Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American
venture capital firm
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which hav ...
focused on investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies. In January 2019, DFJ Venture, the early-stage team, spun out and formed
Threshold Ventures.
DFJ Growth continues to be managed by co-founder John Fisher and the existing DFJ Growth partner team.
History
DFJ was founded in 1985 by
Tim Draper
Timothy Cook Draper (born June 11, 1958) is an American venture capital investor, and founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), . John Fisher became a partner in 1991 and
Steve Jurvetson joined in 1994.
In 2013, founding partner Draper announced his departure from future DFJ Venture funds, with John Fisher continuing in his role with DFJ Growth. Draper announced he will continue investing out of an early stage venture fund Draper Associates V and assisting his son in running an incubator.
, DFJ is one of the six largest and most active investors in the
space sector, which has had over of
private capital
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invested in it since 2005.
In November 2017, Steve Jurvetson stepped down from his position at DFJ after allegations of sexual harassment.
DFJ Growth's investments include
Anaplan
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,
Coinbase
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,
Cylance
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,
Ring
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:(hence) to initiate a telephone connection
Arts, entertainment and media Film and ...
,
Sisense,
SpaceX
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,
Tesla,
Twitter
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,
Unity
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Buildings
* Unity Building, Oregon, Illinois, US; a historic building
* Unity Building (Chicago), Illinois, US; a skyscraper
* Unity Buildings, Liverpool, UK; two buildings in England
* Unity Chapel, Wyoming, Wisconsin, US; a h ...
,
and
Yammer
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.
Organization
The firm is headquartered in
Menlo Park, California
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, and is currently investing DFJ Growth’s third fund of $535 million, which
closed in 2017.
DFJ Growth partner Randy Glein has been named to the Forbes Midas List several times, most recently in 2019.
He was also named one of the world’s top venture capitalists in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 by the New York Times/CB Insights.
Affiliates
The DFJ Network was renamed the Draper Venture Network in 2015 and is
operated by Tim Draper.
Venture capital investments
*
Boxbe (2005)
References
External links
Official site{{Private equity and venture capital
Companies based in Menlo Park, California
Financial services companies established in 1985
Venture capital firms of the United States
1985 establishments in California
Draper family