Draper Associates Fund 8

About Draper Associates Fund 8

Blockchain, Crypto, Fintech, General Tech focused fund

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited States

Funding StageSeed

Industry Focus

Fintech

Web3 Finance

Web3 Infrastructure

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Bold early-stage founder reshaping a fundamental human system

AI & Robotics

Crypto & Blockchain

Healthcare & Biotech

Aerospace & Space

Unconventional Deep Tech

Bullish Signals

400+ companies backed, 60+ unicornsexternal

$2.3B AUM, 40+ years track recordexternal

Early Coinbase, Tesla, SpaceX backerexternal

Bitcoin investments since 2011external

40%+ portfolio in AI/robotics/automationexternal

Precision medicine bets since 2015external

Backed Colossal, Oklo, Polymarket, Xanaduexternal

DeFi + tokenized assets thesis confirmedexternal

Space economy + lunar mining in scopeexternal

Colossal Biosciences: $10.2B valuationexternal

Portfolio spans 30+ deep tech verticalsexternal

Investing since 1985 — earliest stagesexternal

Contrarian Signals

Extremely broad thesis — low specialization signalexternal

Legacy brand; new fund terms unclearexternal

No GPs named publicly on siteexternal

Website heavy on brand, light on processexternal

Founder Do's

Think decade-scale, world-changing vision

Operate in AI, crypto, biotech, or space

Come early — pre-product, pre-traction OK

Show bold, contrarian conviction

Reference specific market inflection points

Founder Don'ts

Pitch incremental or me-too ideas

Avoid moonshot framing

Skip the long-term vision

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Fund Overview

Fund Size$200M

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Key People

Tim Draper, Andy Tang