Timothy Draper
United States
Mr. Timothy Draper is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Draper Associates. He is also the Founder and serves as Board Member at Draper Venture Network. He also serves as Special Limited Partner at Draper Dragon. He serves as Advisor at Halogen Ventures, Republic and Aragon One. He serves as Advisor at Move37. He is also a Co-Founding Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He also served as Mentor at Boost VC. He also serves as Investment Committee Member at Draper Nexus. He was also an Advisory General Partner at Timberline Venture Partners. He is a Co-Founder at Draper University. He was also a Co-founder and Managing Director at Draper Triangle Ventures. He served as Board Observer at PubMatic. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. He serves as Advisor at Bagaveev. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, He serves on the boards of OpenNode, DoAt, Glam, Meebo, Prosper, SocialText, and DFJ Plug 'N Play companies. DFJ's previous successes include Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. He founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham(NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai). As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, he is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital dealmaker for 2008. He was awarded the Commonwealth Club's Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. Previously, he served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, He launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. He was a member of Singapore's International Economic Council and Ukraine's Orange Circle. He serves as Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. He was on the Board of U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He serves as an Advisor at Wavemaker Partners. He also served as Board Member at EverythingMe. He also serves as Managing Partner at Draper Cygnus. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as President at the Draper Foundation. He serves as Advisor at Kloudless.
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