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.
Future Ventures is a financial services platform with a focus on disruptive technology companies.
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.
ZaiNar is a technology that can track the real-time location of anything.
Raised $16,663,570.00 from Hella Ventures, SBNY, George Godula, Sand Hill Angels, CP Ventures, Chris Sang and Samsung NEXT.
Board Member
2009
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/sets/72157608597030651
SpaceX is an aviation and aerospace company that focuses on reducing the costs associated with space travel by using reusable rockets.
Raised $9,770,343,846.00 from Roman Smolevskiy.
Board Member
2006 - 2020
photos: http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=rec&w=44124348109%40N01&q=tesla+motors&m=tags
Tesla Motors is an electric vehicle and clean energy company that provides electric cars, solar, and renewable energy solutions.
Raised $19,374,213,101.00 from European Union, PennDOT, Australian Renewable Energy Agency and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
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.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm.
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
NeoPhotonics offers optical components, modules and subsystems for the delivery of video, voice and data over telecommunication networks.
Raised $229,673,840.00 from CDP Capital Technology Ventures, Dominion Ventures, Dow Corning, Sands Brothers Asset Management, Linkmore Capital, Venrock, Nth Power Technologies, Inc., Hydro-Québec CapiTech, XR Ventures and IVP.
Board Member
1996 - 1997
a funny time capsule: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/700774/