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Investor portfolio, from our funding record
Firm assets $1.27B (Form ADV private fund gross assets, 2025-12, SEC Form ADV (filed Mar 2026)): all strategies, not money invested in space.
Counted rounds
5
Led
1
4 as participant
Companies
4
Disclosed round value
$168M
5 of 5 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share
First deal
2017-08-23
ICEYE
Latest deal
2025-06-18
Reaction Dynamics
Draper Associates appears on 5 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 4 companies: recorded as lead on 1 and as a participant on 4.
The earliest is ICEYE on 23 August 2017; the latest is Reaction Dynamics on 18 June 2025.
5 of the 5 rounds disclosed a size, together $168M. That is the size of the rounds Draper Associates took part in, not the amount Draper Associates invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.
The investor most often on the same counted rounds as Draper Associates is Draper Nexus, on 2 rounds.
1 other recorded transaction naming Draper Associates is not counted in this portfolio; it is listed separately with the class that keeps it out (companies not classed as space: 1).
Private funding rounds into space companies that name Draper Associates as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.
| Date | Company | Stage | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reaction Dynamics | Series A | Participant | $10.3M | Canadian Defence Review (CNW release) (opens the source for this round) | |
| Slingshot AerospaceRecorded as Series A-1 | Series A | Lead | $25.0M | Slingshot Aerospace (press release) (opens the source for this round) | |
| Planet LabsRecorded as Series D | Series D and later | Participant | $90.6M | SEC EDGAR (dMY IV / Planet Form S-4/A) (opens the source for this round) | |
| ICEYE | Series B | Participant | $34.0M | SpaceNews (opens the source for this round) | |
| ICEYE | Series A | Participant | $8.5M | SpaceNews (opens the source for this round) |
Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security.
| Stage | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Series A | 3 |
| Series B | 1 |
| Series D and later | 1 |
| Sector | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Analytics | 4 |
| Launch | 1 |
| Year | Rounds |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2 |
Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.
Showing the 10 most frequent of 18 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.
Other recorded transactions that name Draper Associates. Each class below is kept out of every figure on this page by the same rule our quarterly funding editions use; they are listed so nothing is hidden.
| Date | Company | Class | Role | Round size | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venus Aerospace | Private rounds and grants into companies not classed as space (defense and other cross-domain companies without a space subsector) | Participant | $91.0M | Payload Space (opens the source for this round) |
| 2017 | 1 |