Draper Dragon — Seed VC Firm ($50K–$250K Checks)
Draper Dragon is a Seed venture capital firm investing in SaaS, Healthcare, AI / ML. The firm typically writes $50K–$250K checks and has 82 portfolio companies in our records.
- Check size
- $50K–$250K
- Portfolio
- 82 companies on record
- Partners
- 14 listed
- AUM
- $1.5B
- Stage
- Seed
- Sectors
- SaaS, Healthcare, AI / ML
Last verified: 2026-11-10
Seed
$50K – $250K
$1.5B
82+ companies
14 partners
Investment Thesis
Early-stage venture firm investing in emerging technology, including blockchain and consumer internet. It has historically supported Web3 and gaming-adjacent companies.
How Draper Dragon invests
Draper Dragon is a vc firm. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on SaaS, Healthcare, AI / ML.
Draper Dragon typically writes checks of $50K–$250K per investment, backed by approximately $1.5B in assets under management. Our records include 3 funds raised by the firm.
Draper Dragon has backed 82 companies in our records, including Maestro, CARV, Hinkal.
Partners & Team
Samiz Bayan
Partner
Yiming Hu
Partner
Ryo Tamura
Principal
Tank Chen
Investor
Tim Draper
Steward
Founder of the firm in 2006 alongside Larry Li, Andy Tang, and Bobby Chao.
Matt Huang
Venture Partner
James R. Cantre
Venture Partner; Chief Executive Officer, Cometa Labs
Listed as Venture Partner on the investment team and as Chief Executive Officer of Cometa Labs, the firm's in-house venture studio.
William Kwok
Venture Partner
Edward Lee
Venture Partner
Andy Tang
Managing Partner
Co-founded the firm in 2006 with Tim Draper, Larry Li, and Bobby Chao.
Larry Li
Founding Partner
Co-founded the firm in 2006 with Tim Draper, Andy Tang, and Bobby Chao.
Industry Focus
Invests In
Funds
Fund III
Fund II
Fund I
Recent Activity
Raised Fund III ($200M)
2023 · fund records
Raised Fund II ($400M)
2018 · fund records
Raised Fund I ($300M)
2015 · fund records
Portfolio Companies (82)
Other
Maestro
CARV
Hinkal
OpenTrade
Coinflow
BlockJoy
Karma3 Labs
GoSats
RockX
Aplo
- •Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
- •Lead with your fit in SaaS, Healthcare, AI / ML — the sectors they actively back.
- •Size your ask to their typical $50K – $250K check.
- •warm intro preferred
- •Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Richard Wang, Managing Partner.
- •A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.
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