Draper Associates

Draper Associates is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Mateo, California, that backs early-stage and seed companies worldwide. The firm focuses on visionary founders pursuing transformative technologies across sectors such as artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, crypto, space, software as a service, and cloud-based platforms. It supports portfolio companies from pre-seed to Series A, offering capital together with strategic guidance, mentorship, and access to a broad network to help teams scale and bring breakthrough ideas to market. Draper Associates maintains an industry-agnostic approach but seeks ventures with the potential to disrupt markets, create jobs, and drive meaningful growth. The firm emphasizes long-term partnerships and a willingness to fund ambitious projects that seem improbable today but may become inevitable tomorrow.

Maxime Bucaille

Investor

Tim Draper

Partner

Daniel Sangyoon Kim

Analyst

Megan Kurohara

Investor

Tyrone Lee

Venture Partner

Andrew Tang

Partner

Past deals in Commodities

Roxom

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Roxom is a pioneering exchange platform, specializing in the trading of Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and traditional assets such as stocks, commodities, and debt. It employs a proprietary market-making algorithm to ensure liquidity and diverse trading opportunities for its users.

Morpher

Series A in 2022
Morpher is a blockchain-based financial platform that enables global trading of stocks, commodities, and currencies with zero fees and infinite liquidity through virtual futures on Ethereum. The platform allows users to stake the protocol’s native token to reflect price movements of an underlying asset, with the protocol acting as counterparty and minting or burning tokens in relation to price changes. Morpher replicates the economics of traditional asset trading on the blockchain while removing the need for intermediaries such as banks, brokers, and exchanges by running markets on its software. Markets can be shorted, traded with leverage, and operated around the clock, and the system can create new markets beyond conventional assets.

Morpher

Seed Round in 2020
Morpher is a blockchain-based financial platform that enables global trading of stocks, commodities, and currencies with zero fees and infinite liquidity through virtual futures on Ethereum. The platform allows users to stake the protocol’s native token to reflect price movements of an underlying asset, with the protocol acting as counterparty and minting or burning tokens in relation to price changes. Morpher replicates the economics of traditional asset trading on the blockchain while removing the need for intermediaries such as banks, brokers, and exchanges by running markets on its software. Markets can be shorted, traded with leverage, and operated around the clock, and the system can create new markets beyond conventional assets.

Morpher

Seed Round in 2019
Morpher is a blockchain-based financial platform that enables global trading of stocks, commodities, and currencies with zero fees and infinite liquidity through virtual futures on Ethereum. The platform allows users to stake the protocol’s native token to reflect price movements of an underlying asset, with the protocol acting as counterparty and minting or burning tokens in relation to price changes. Morpher replicates the economics of traditional asset trading on the blockchain while removing the need for intermediaries such as banks, brokers, and exchanges by running markets on its software. Markets can be shorted, traded with leverage, and operated around the clock, and the system can create new markets beyond conventional assets.

Roxom

Roxom is a pioneering exchange platform, specializing in the trading of Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and traditional assets such as stocks, commodities, and debt. It employs a proprietary market-making algorithm to ensure liquidity and diverse trading opportunities for its users.
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