​About Us

​DraperU is the largest co-living fellowship for pre-seed founders in the Bay Area. Draper funds have invested in some of the most iconic companies of our time from Skype & Hotmail to SpaceX & Tesla.

​Join 100 pre-seed founders at DraperU, meet your dream team or your next hire.

​ 🥅 Goal

​Build & Ship Crazy Demos.

​It doesn't matter if you're technical or non-technical, we are looking for crazy demos of what you would want to build and business models the world is not thinking about.

​If you weren't doing what you're doing today for the next 48 hours, what would you build in AI?

​📍 What’s Happening’?

• ​Co-working out of our campus for the weekend to ship cool sh*it

• ​Meals & Drinks (non-alcohol only sorry not sorry)

• ​Lots of snacks aka protein bars & bananas & Cheetos (maybe more)

​🥇 Perks

​Pitch to VC Funds

​$25,000 - $100,000

• ​Pitch to DraperU Ventures who will be part of the judging panel, they invest up to $100,000 and are the pre-seed fund of the Draper Venture Network

• ​Learning lunches with 2 VCs from our network

​Access Annual Draper Venture Summit

• ​Get an invite to Draper's Annual Venture Summit for LPs and corporate innovation heads hosted by Tim Draper & Draper Venture Network

​$12,000

• ​Win $12,000 scholarship and invite to attend DraperU's flagship residential fellowship for pre-seed founders

• ​Pitch to Draper funds investing from $25k-2m at Demo Day

​Prizes 🏆

• ​Win $5,000 cash in Prize Money

• ​Get access to our credit and discount board for alumni

​Our Partners

​DevRev

​A blazingly fast neural engine for next generation customer support and software development.

​➡️ Founded by Dheeraj Pandey (Adobe Board)
➡️ Raised $70m+ led by Khosla Ventures

​Iterative Ventures

​Community of 3000+ ex-Meta operators and engineers founded by Kasey Roh and Richard Chen.

​Qikfox

​Founded by DU alum, Tarun Gaur, we're excited to be backed by Qikfox, a privacy first browser company.