Draper Fisher Jurvetson


Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an American venture capital firm 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. The founders are Tim Draper, John H.N. Fisher, and Steve Jurvetson.
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 invested in it since 2005.
In November 2017, Steve Jurveston stepped down from his position at DFJ after allegations of sexual harassment.
DFJ Growth's investments include Anaplan, Coinbase, Cylance, Ring, Sisense, SpaceX, Tesla, Twitter, Unity, and Yammer.

Organization

The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, 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.