Adam Draper

About

Adam Draper is the founder and Managing Director of Boost VC, a San Mateo-based pre-seed venture capital firm and accelerator with approximately $200 million in assets under management, specializing in "deep tech" and "sci-fi" innovations across crypto, space, biotechnology, AI, robotics, climate, defense, and frontier fields—providing the critical first $500K checks to audacious founders turning impossible ideas into reality, from exoskeletons and jetpacks to de-extinction and orbital manufacturing. A fourth-generation venture capitalist and son of Bitcoin pioneer Tim Draper, Adam launched Boost VC in 2012 with co-founder Brayton Williams after entrepreneurial ventures including co-founding Xpert Financial during his UCLA years and early angel successes in breakout companies like Coinbase (where he was an initial investor), Amplitude, and Plangrid. Inspired by a personal dream of building an Iron Man suit, comic book collector passions, and family lessons chronicled in his co-authored book Breakfast with Pops: A Venture Capital Handbook, Draper has raised multiple funds—including over $87 million in 2025—and backed unicorns like Colossal Biosciences while championing relentless innovation through his Substack newsletter, demo days, and a philosophy that no idea is too crazy for humanity's sci-fi future.