Draper Associates

Activity from announced rounds

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Draper Associates is a global venture firm investing in AI, robotics, blockchain, healthcare, biotechnology, aerospace and other emerging technologies.

Its blockchain thesis includes decentralised finance, tokenised assets and decentralised infrastructure. In healthcare, it focuses on technologies such as AI diagnostics, regenerative medicine and neurotechnology that can improve prevention and healthy lifespan.

The firm also backs automation and human-machine collaboration, alongside space technologies. Founders can submit a pitch directly through its website, which also provides an AI pitch-coaching tool.

Sources
Rounds participated in
7
Confirmed lead rounds
0
6 roles undisclosed
New companies
7
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$230.1M
6 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A5
Seed1
Undisclosed1

By primary sector

AI3
Defense tech2
Cybersecurity1
Industrial tech1

By country

United States6
United Kingdom1

Rounds

7 in this selection
Aurelius Systems

Develops AI-powered autonomous directed-energy systems to detect and neutralize drone threats

$40MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Arpio

Automates disaster recovery and resilience testing for enterprises running complex cloud environments on AWS and Azure

$15MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Apoha

Apoha measures molecular behavior for pharmaceutical, food and materials research.

UndisclosedSeries A
Participant
Scout AI

Develops AI foundation models that translate commander intent into coordinated unmanned system action

$100MSeries A
Role not disclosed
NODA AI

Builds AI orchestration software and autonomous agents for defense and intelligence operations

$25MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Ten63 Therapeutics

Develops AI-driven drug discovery platform for first- and best-in-class therapeutics

$45MStrategic
Role not disclosed
Feltsense Holdings

Builds AI agents that function as autonomous founders to create and scale startups

$5.1MSeed
Role not disclosed