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Draper Dragon
Venture capital · San Mateo, CA, United States · North America
Draper Dragon is an early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2006 that invests in frontier technologies, with current focus on AI, agent systems, and blockchain infrastructure. It operates offices in Silicon Valley, Toronto, Shanghai, and South Korea, and has backed more than 130 companies.
Invests inFintech
In its own wordsaiblockchaindigital assetsagent systemssemiconductorsenterprise software
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Or find every investor that fitsDraper Dragon lists 76 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 6 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are Fintech (41%), Crypto & Web3 (14%) and AI & Machine Learning (14%). 59% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Draper Associates, Animoca Brands and Arrington Capital.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Draper Dragon, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Draper Dragon's whole history. Rounds on record name 6 companies; its own site lists 76. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 33% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 17% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 1 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 1 | 0 |
| '26 | 4 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 92th | 76 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 60th | 4% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 74th | 41% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 91th | 8 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Fintech | 41% | 12% |
| Crypto & Web3 | 14% | 1% |
| AI & Machine Learning | 14% | 18% |
| Cybersecurity | 9% | 4% |
| Gaming | 3% | 1% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 3% | 3% |
| Education | 3% | 7% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 3% | 6% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Draper Associates | 22 |
| Animoca Brands | 10 |
| Arrington Capital | 4 |
| Boost VC | 4 |
| Borderless Capital | 4 |
| DCG | 4 |
| Fabric Ventures | 4 |
| NGC Ventures | 4 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers7599%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company11%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Draper Associates
Compare Draper Dragon head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Draper Dragon| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2026 | Seed | |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 18 May 2026 | Seed | |
| 10 Jun 2021 | Series C+ |
Round details for Draper Dragon
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Draper Dragon's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
76 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acre provides autocompounding bitcoin yield services directly to users' bitcoin wallets | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| AEON bridges autonomous AI agents with the real-world economy | Fintech | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| AllScale provides payment solutions and services for global businesses, including checkout, invoicing, payroll, and stablecoin payments. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Anaxi Labs builds a world-scale supply chain of real-world data for AI applications | AI & Machine LearningRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Aplo provides digital assets prime brokerage for financial institutions. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Arc is an open platform comprising apps, assets, developer tools, and a settlement network that connects them. | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
| Auto Legends is an online racing video game where players customize cars with licensed parts, tune them, and compete in races. | GamingMedia & Entertainment | Portfolio page | ||
| Ballet provides crypto cold storage wallets and gift cards for securing and sharing cryptocurrency | Fintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Burnt provides source verification infrastructure for various attributes such as income, employment, and credit | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| The company operates a digital platform for primary fixed income markets, connecting corporate issuers with dealers and institutional investors. | FintechFintech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Centrifuge provides infrastructure for tokenizing real-world assets and managing funds onchain, including tokenized products, DeFi distribution, and fund structuring services. | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| Charms builds apps and assets on the Bitcoin network that are interoperable with the outside world | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
| ClinChoice is a global full-service clinical research organization that accelerates the development and commercialization of innovative drugs, devices, and diagnostics | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Coffer Network provides a smart account solution for Bitcoin | FintechCrypto & Web3 | Portfolio page | ||
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| Coinflow provides payments infrastructure for global platforms, connecting them to major payment networks and enabling instant settlements and payouts. | FintechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| CUDIS is a company that produces a smart ring for tracking sleep, health data, and recovery without subscription fees. | Healthcare & BiotechConsumer | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- draperdragon.com
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 10 Jun 2021
- Companies checked
- 76
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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