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About Draper Atlantic
Draper Atlantic is an early stage information technology venture
capital firm based in Northern Virginia that focuses on information
technology businesses with enormous market potential. Draper Atlantic
are active investors and play an active role within our companies.
Draper Atlantic partners with entrepreneurs with the energy, vision,
experience, and passion to build great companies and helps them
succeed through hands-on team building, partnerships, advice and
support.
Draper Atlantic focuses on early stage technology investing and
looks for the combination of great teams, big markets, big ideas
and proprietary technology. Most of our initial investments range
from $250,000 to $2 million for first rounds. Draper Atlantic continues
to support portfolio companies with additional funds alongside other
co-investors as companies make business progress. The Draper Network
has seen over 30 of its companies complete an IPO, and has achieved
successful sales of companies to the likes of Microsoft, Yahoo,
Cisco, America Online, Inktomi, Amazon, GoTo and many others. |
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Areas of Investment Interest
While Draper Atlantic realizes that
over time investment themes change, these are the three major sectors
they are currently focusing on:
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Communications equipment and software: Hardware
and software (network enabling technologies sold to operators)
addressing the bottom layers of the IP architecture, including
communications equipment (Optical components and systems,
Wireless, Other telecom equipment) and communications software.
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Enterprise Software & Services: Enterprise
applications (sold to companies as enabling technologies for
their business processes) including application software, middleware,
and network-enabled enterprise services. |
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Internet Infrastructure Services: Network
applications (service-enabling technologies sold to operators
or companies) that make the network more intelligent including
infrastructure business services, infrastructure consumer services,
infrastructure software. |
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