About Draper Investment Company!
With an interest in the most groundbreaking technology companies in new global markets, venture capital firm Draper Investment Company (Zurich) helps its investments achieve maximum potential. A saavy team of professionals who have managed and advised leading clients in the industry run Draper Investment Company (Zurich). As a premier, early-stage investment firm, Draper Investment Company helps its companies gain maximum potential through financing, business strategies, networking opportunities, and further capital raising initiatives.
Overseeing daily operations for Draper Investment Company and its Swiss office, Managing Director Don Plaisted is the advisory for Founder and General Partner William H. Draper III. Mr. Don Plaisted specializes in emerging segments and markets and finds financing solutions, business development opportunities and new team members for Draper Investment Company’s portfolio companies. Mr. Plaisted has offered funding to innovative companies in India, Europe, and Asia. He brings more than a decade of management experience to his Director position with Draper Investment Company. As history, Mr. Plaisted acted as Senior Manager at Deloitte & Touche’s Enterprise Risk Services Group and management-level advisor with Northrop Grumman’s Information Technology Group. Don Plaisted graduated from the University of Mississippi.
A leading name in venture capitalism, the Draper family has offered funding to start-ups for three generations. After he organized economic reconstruction in Germany and Japan as outlined in the Marshall Plan post World War II, General William H. Draper Jr. created Draper, Gaither & Anderson in 1958. William Draper’s grandson Tim Draper formed an early-stage venture capital fund, Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The founder of Draper Investment Company, William H. Draper III, also created three other venture-financing firms. Following his time with Pitch Johnson in 1962, Bill Draper was one of the founding partners of Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto, California, a venture firm that still focuses on technology company financing. Draper formed Draper International in the early 1990s for India-basedinvestments and co-founded Draper Richards L.P. to handle US funding initiatives. In 2001, Bill Draper established Draper Investment Company, based in Switzerland, to invest in early-stage technology firms all over the world.
Draper Investment Company helps establish its companies in the market through first round investing. Intent on trending the latest and most innovative ideas in business, Draper Investment Company draws from the rapidly growing technology sector. Draper Investment Company’s portfolio companies include Plista, Imagini, and Dialcom Networks, and its recent mergers are Netkraft, Marketworks, and Skype. During the review process, Draper Investment Company professionals assess an early-stage companies’ team building abilities, product distinctions, and ability to forge into the market after funding goes through. Draper Investment Company invests initially and offers advice, business solutions and continued funding as the company grows.