Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director & Founder of Future Ventures
Steve Jurvetson
Managing Director & Founder of Future Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director & Founder
2018 - Current
At Future Ventures, we support passionate founders who are forging the future. For the past 25 years, we have backed the visionaries who push the boundaries of possibility and explore the frontier of the unknown. As venture capitalists, the founders of Future Ventures have led founding investments in five companies that had successful IPOs and several others that were multi-billion-dollar acquisitions. Some of our early VC investments include Planet, Skype, SpaceX, Tesla, Memphis Meats, Mythic, Nervana, D-Wave and Zoox, representing $800 billion of aggregate value creation. We focus on disruptive technology such as commercial space exploration, deep learning, quantum computing, robotics, AI, blockchain, sustainable transportation, synthetic biology and clean meat.
Board Member
2021
ZaiNar does PNT with a multi-band SDR that overlays on any RF link. So, they can do geolocation in complicated environments (urban, indoor, underground, dynamically changing environments). They have a great team that invented a new way to do inexpensive geolocation, like a multispectral RF interferometer, but entirely in software, a very unique approach with over 50 issued patents. They can work on any RF band, from 5G to WiFi to satellite links.
Board Member
2009
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/sets/72157608597030651
Board Member
2006 - 2020
photos: http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=44124348109%40N01&q=tesla+motors&m=tags
Board Member
2003 - 2020
the leader in quantum computing and quantum machine learning. My photoblog posts: https://www.flickr.com/search/?w=44124348109@N01&q=d-wave
Cofounder and Managing Director
1995 - 2018
founding VC investor in Hotmail (MSFT), Interwoven (IWOV), Kana (KANA), and NeoPhotonics (NPTN), and led the firm's investments in SpaceX, Tesla, Planet, Nervana, Mythic, Memphis Meats, D-Wave, Skype and other companies which were then acquired for $12 billion in aggregate.
Board Member
2005 - 2017
photos: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=synthetic+genomics&w=44124348109%40N01
Board Member
1996 - 2011
15 good years, through the IPO. Fun times with Neo in Shenzhen: http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=44124348109%40N01&q=Shenzhen&m=text
Board Member
1996 - 1997
a funny time capsule: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/700774/
Product Marketing
1994 - 1994
Memories... http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/841771/