Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Premier Early Stage Venture Capital

Wired Magazine asked DFJ's Steve Jurvetson the question: "What word should replace 'Virtal Reality'?" Steve's anwer: "Agumented reality. In competition with virtual worlds and Als, we will coevolve and internalize technologies to augment reality and our intelligence." Wired, Feb. 2006
Tim Draper profiled in San Francisco Chronicle. March 13, 2005
DFJ's Steve Jurvetson in the Oval Office Steve Jurvetson joins President Bush in the Oval Office on December 3, 2003 for the historic signing ceremony of the $3.7B Nanotechology Bill. Steve is Silicon Valley's leading investor in Nanotech companies.
Tim Draper: The Ringmaster of Venture Capital	Tim Draper and John Doerr predict the future at the Churchill Club's sixth annual tech trends debate in Palo Alto.
.Small Times Cover - March/April 2002 "Steve Jurvertson: Among the first ventures investors to pursue small tech, Jurvetson helped legitimize nano in the Valley."	FREE EMAIL EXPLOSION "Like many Silicon Valley stories these days, it has a happy ending -- deliriously happy for some. The venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson parlayed two Web-based email companies into a half-billion dollar jackpot." - Red Herring, June 1998. Click here for press highlights on Four11 and Hotmail.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson staff members at DFJ Open House, July 2004
Extreme Kart Racing Team Draper Fisher Jurvetson, along with Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the BizWorld Grand Prix.
(Click here for for full text of article.)	Teamwork "Like Fisher, Tim Draper loves the thrill of the risk and the gamble that strikes gold. But he also enjoys the other side of venture capitalism -- doing whatever it takes to help a company he's invested in succeed" - As printed in SF Focus, August 1997
Financial World Cover "Tim Draper is one of the hottest guns in venture capital." - Financial World, November 18, 1996, p.16.	"A Herring Original" "Scholar of business. Successful engineer. Self- proclaimed techno-geek. A fanatic about ultimate frisbee, he handily negotiates million-dollar deals with Internet entrepreneurs on the playing field. Defying industry standards, Jurvetson was named partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson after just six months on the job. No longer a two name operation, DFJ manages over 150 technology investments. Board member of Hotmail, Lightwave and Release Software, Jurvetson may just be the next John Doerr." - Red Herring Magazine, June 1997 "Arguably one of the best known of his crop of young VCs, a recent Red Herring magazine ad predicted Mr. Jurvetson 'may just be the next John Doerr.'"- VC Journal, Cover Article, July 1997
Financial Times of London

Draper Fisher Jurvetson MacNiven??
"I'm in Charge Now"

Captured here in an Al Haig moment, Jamis MacNiven has orchestrated a surprise buyout of DFJ Woodside through a bizarre reverse merger of Buck's and Princess Cruise Lines.

In-Restaurant Photo of Jamis' special embroidery, January 2001

Tim Draper: van Gogh of VCs

Tim Draper’s acrylic sheep painting, featured in SLAM's debut issue, is rendered in soothing, bucolic colors. "My influences are the color wheel, van Gogh, the ocean, and all the rainbows I’ve seen," he explains. Venture capitalist Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners has submitted a water color of herself and fellow VC Heidi Roizen as teenage cheerleaders. There is a stunning series of black-and-white photographs by Jamis MacNiven, owner of Buck’s Restaurant in Woodside, California. And Steve Jurvetson, Mr. Draper's partner at DFJ, has assembled a montage of Polaroids taken at conferences, newspaper clippings about Hotmail, Golden Gate Bridge toll receipts, and other day-to day technology detritus, then layered it with lacquer and gold dust. The result is reminiscent of collage artist Winston O. Smith’s Pax Americana.

- Red Herring, April 2000

"WEB THING "

Tim Draper, founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson in Redwood City, took the stage before more than 1,000 people recently and sang an ode to electronic-mail to the tune of 1960s hit "Wild Thing." Among Mr. Draper's lyrics: "Web King/You make my cash ring/You make Internet e-mail, baby, Web King/Web King, I think I'll fund you/But I wanna know for sure/Come on, do it right, for VC, Web King."

- Wall Street Journal, June 25, 1998

Power Burritos

"THE VENTURE CAPITALIST:
Steve Jurvetson, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson

"My absolute favorite place is a taqueria in Redwood City, El Grullense. And there's only one dish I'll consider eating there -- It's a chicken burrito -- $3.50 for regular and $4.50 for super"

- Wall Street Journal, April 22, 1998, p.B1.

The Buck's Sand Hill Derby Challenge for Charity

"What a perfectly dreadful waste of paramedics. The Sand Hill Challenge's only casualty was Frank Creer of Draper Fisher Jurvetson who wore his special racing shorts and Tivas as he slid, carless, down the road."

- Buck's Menu Cover, Oct. 1997

David Coursey's Internet Showcase (As printed in Upside, May 1998)

"Tim Draper, Money Giver"

"The Bill Gates of the next century speak with Tim. If the idea is promising, then Draper arranges for the starting capital." (Stern Konr@d 1997)

Red Herring Lineup

(from their subscription card)

Steve Jurvetson

Hollywood Squares contender Marc Andreessen

The Enigma !

Breakfast at Bucks

- San Jose Mercury News, November 28, 1996

Surf's Up:Tim Draper Hanging Ten for the 1996 Guide to Technology Finance

Fishing for Deals at "Venture Market West"

"Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson learns...from Tim Draper, the master himself, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium party sponsored by Silicon Valley Bank."

- As printed in The Red Herring, September 1995

Steve Jurvetson on Tokyo TV Steve Jurvetson and Sabeer (co-founder of Hotmail) at Bucks being "filmed" by Tokyo TV since the two of them were unable to be there in person. The photograph on the table is a snapshot of a CNN film crew capturing Steve and Sabeer over breakfast at Bucks.
FORTUNE Brainstorm Conference 2002 Aspen
Tim and the Terminator Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tim Draper at the BizWorld Silicon Valley Grand Prix
Steve Jurvetson at NanoVentures 2002 Steve Jurvetson opened NanoVentures 2002 with a keynote speech on the commercialization paths of nanotechnology.
POV Magazine, September 1998. (Click here for for full text of article.)	"On the Record" "Going Public invited representatives from six of the leading venture capital firms in Silicon Valley to reflect on the record-setting activity in the last year's private-equity market." - As printed in Going Public: Guide to Technology Finance, June 1997
Ultimate Frisbee Draper Fisher Jurvetson Directors	Team Players John Fisher, Mike Santullo of Four11, Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson
A New Twist on the Future of Life Advisors to TIME's Future of Life Conference: James 'Double Helix' Watson, DFJ's Steve Jurvetson, and John Gage of Sun. Time magazine celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the discovery of the DNA double helix at their "Future of Life" conference on February 19 - 21, 2003. Architects of the genomic revolution gathered to chart the future of biotech and its ramifications on mankind. DFJ's Steve Jurvetson joined legendary Nobel Laureate James Watson, one of the three co-discoverers of the DNA double helix, as one of the featured speakers at the event.
Internet Schmooze-Fest Cocktail Buffet Event Netscape's Marc Andreessen, Steve Jurvetson and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang - Captured by Bart Nagel, April 1996	Learning from the Master Intel's Steve Hochman, Andy Grove, Steve Jurvetson and Accel's John Partridge