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Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Private Ownership
Industry Venture capital
Founded 1985
Founder Timothy C. Draper
John H. N. Fisher
Steve Jurvetson
Headquarters 2882 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California, United States
Products Venture capital
Total assets $4 billion
Website www.dfj.com
Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Silicon Valley Office

Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is an American venture capital firm focused on early- and growth-stage investments in enterprise, consumer and disruptive technologies.

With the addition of Box’s IPO in 2015,[1] DFJ has invested in a total of 23 companies that have exited with a valuation of more than $1 billion [2] including: Baidu, Skype, SolarCity, Tesla Motors, Tumblr, Twitter and Yammer.[3] In 2015, DFJ was identified as one of the top investors of billion dollar startups [4] with investments in Avant,[5][6] Datastax,[6][7] Redfin [8] [6] and SimpliVity.[6][9]

History

DFJ was founded in 1985[4] by three founding partners are by Timothy C. Draper, John H.N. Fisher, and Steve Jurvetson.

The firm has also invested in Anaplan,[10] Chef,[11] Coinbase,[12] Foursquare,[13] Mapbox,[14] Planet Labs,[15] Shift,[16] SpaceX,[17] SugarCRM,[18] Tango,[19] Theranos,[20] Twin Prime,[21] and Yodle.[22]

As of October 2015, DFJ is one of the six largest and most active investors in the space sector, which has had over US$10 billion of private capital invested in it since 2005.[23]

Organization

Partners of the Venture team include: William Bryant,[24] Steve Jurvetson, Emily Melton,[25] Bubba Murarka,[26] Andreas Stavropoulos,[27] and Josh B. Stein.[28] Partners of the Growth team include: Mark Bailey,[29] John H. N. Fisher, Randy Glein,[30] and Barry Schuler. Heidi Roizen is the firm’s Operating Partner.[31]

The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, and is currently investing DFJ Venture XI, a $325M fund,[32] and DFJ Growth’s second fund of $470M,[33] with closed in 2014. DFJ’s core funds have raised more than $4 billion, deployed in more than 300 companies.[34]

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