Draper Fisher Jurvetson
| Draper Fisher Jurvetson | |
|---|---|
| legal form | partnership |
| founding | 1985 |
| Seat |
Menlo Park , California ,
|
| management | Steve Jurvetson |
| Branch | Venture capital company |
| Website | www.dfj.com |
Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is a private equity firm founded in 1985 and headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park , California , USA , that provides venture capital to companies that are believed to grow rapidly through technological or commercial innovation. In addition to its headquarters on the famous Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, the company also has offices in Shanghai , People's Republic of China and Bengaluru , India . In addition to the USA, the company invests in China, India, South Korea , Vietnam and Europe .
DFJ was founded by Timothy Draper , John Fisher and Steve Jurvetson .
The 235 holdings so far (as of December 8, 2015) include well-known companies such as Twitter , Skype , Everdream , tumblr ., Tesla Motors , SolarCity , Space X , Baidu , Twilio , Tumbleweed , Foursquare , SugarCRM . To date, 23 of these companies have sold or gone public for $ 1 billion or more.
Unlike other venture capital firms, the company no longer specializes in certain start-up and development phases of companies, but invests from the pre-start-up phase and start-up phase (seed capital), through early stage capital and later stage capital . Draper Fisher Jurvetson will remain significantly invested in some companies even after the IPO .
For the various development phases, the company maintains appropriate management teams, a venture team (analogously: risk team for the start-up phase), a growth team (team for the growth phase) and an operations team (for advanced companies, sales and IPO) as well as the venture Partners (the responsible partners of the company), from which the three founders stand out as founders .
As of December 8, 2015, CrunchBase had 9 initial public offerings and 91 sales of equity investments by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
Individual evidence
- ^ Company Overview of Draper Fisher Jurvetson at bloomberg.com ; Retrieved December 8, 2015
- ↑ a b http://dfj.com/teams
- ↑ http://dfj.com/portfolio
- ^ Entry by Draper Fisher Jurvetson at crunchbase.com ; Retrieved December 8, 2015