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DFJ for Entrepreneurs

Ready to change the world? DFJ supports innovative entrepreneurs wherever they are. Through the combined power of the global DFJ Network, we provide the experience, expertise, and contacts to help take your company to the next stage and beyond. We look for great ideas in many sectors including: information technology, nanotechnology, life sciences, and clean energy. We like to keep an open mind and consider unique opportunities.

We know that successful founders surround themselves with successful people - so we support your desire to build your own team and run your own business. We're enthusiastic about meeting you and helping you succeed.

Submitting a business plan

Send your business plan via e-mail to mail@dfj.com, or mail to:

Draper Fisher Jurvetson
2882 Sand Hill Road, Suite 150
Menlo Park, CA 94025

It may take several weeks for us to get back to you because we review all submissions.

Your business plan should contain the following information:

  1. Investment size and structure requested
  2. Description of the product or service
  3. Brief history of the company
  4. Business and marketing strategy
  5. Analysis of the market and the competition
  6. Full resumés of key management (highlighting industry and market expertise)
  7. Current financial statements and projections

Your plan should be a working document for the company, used in long-term planning, and not simply a sales tool for fund-raising.

Note: We do not sign NDAs. We receive so many plans each week that if we were to sign every NDA request, we would quickly be swamped with legal documents. Our reputation depends on our professionalism and our ability to maintain the trust of the entrepreneurs with whom we work. We will take care to keep your materials confidential.

Categories of Interest

DFJ considers investment opportunities in these information technology areas:

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The Riskmasters

DFJ's 20th Anniversary Book: "The Riskmasters", profiling 20 years of exceptional entrepreneurs.

Intro to book:

We at Draper Fisher Jurvetson have been investing in start ups now for over 20 years, and our industry is forever fascinating and full of wonder. The people we meet are extraordinary, driven by some injustice or difficulty or opportunity in the world, and they often create from nothing a way for their customers to improve their lives. The blood, sweat and tears they shed are all for the good of their cause, and any success they achieve is rightly theirs.

The visions and products we see through the eyes of entrepreneurs can be as simple as Hotmail's free email, Skype's free Internet phone service, or Overture's pay for performance search. Or, they can be beyond the imaginations of science fiction writers, as in the case of Theranos' human-prescription feedback mechanism or D-Wave's quantum computer. Whatever their effect, they all become a part of the human experience, our culture and our lives. It just keeps getting better.

Change will come to our lives faster and faster with the continued exponential development of communications and information technologies, the melting of geographic barriers, and the improvement in governmental freedoms. Eventually, everyone will be able to exercise the creativity of the entrepreneur, and from the unleashing of their minds, we all benefit.

But it is only those who make the sacrifices, who keep their eyes on the mission, who lead their teams with compassion and strength, and who ultimately wake the world to see what they have envisioned who can be called, "The Riskmasters."