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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/

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