Welcome to the frontier, Rial 🚀
We just invested in Rial, a company building the infrastructure to certify that an image is real at the moment of capture.
Most tools detect synthetic content after the fact. Rial intervenes at the origin.
#DeepTech#AI#DraperCygnus
The mining industry runs on billion-dollar decisions made on incomplete data. Until now, it was simply the constraint.
We wrote a full breakdown of Ab Astra, a new #portfolio company, and what the thesis looks like from our side of the table.
🔗goo.su/56Kjm9
Meet our heroes 💪🏻
AI and longevity, two verticals where the science has to be real.
Backing them is part of it. Staying close as they build is the other part.
#Portfolio#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
Welcome to the frontier, @thesemqgroup🧠
We invested in SEMQ, a company rethinking how AI systems represent meaning.
Deep innovation reshaping global AI infrastructure, built in Argentina.
#DeepTech#AI#DraperCygnus
Welcome to the frontier, AbAstra! 🪨
Every critical minerals decision is still made on incomplete data. The subsurface has always been largely opaque. Ab Astra is changing that.
We're proud to participate in Ab Astra's $2M pre-seed round. 🚀
#Portfolio
At Draper Cygnus, we've spent over a decade backing deep tech when few others were.
As @TimDraper puts it: "Believe in the founder even when the founder stops believing in themselves."
That's what we work to provide when it matters most. And that's the real asset.
Meet Our Heroes. Meet some of the founders we back 💪🏻
From space and energy to agtech, they’re tackling some of the hardest problems in deep tech.
Backing them is only part of the job. Staying close as they build is what matters.
#Portfolio#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
We’ve invested in Max Space, a new Draper Cygnus portfolio company 🚀
Max Space is building the foundational habitat layer for the next space economy, making permanent presence in orbit viable for the first time.
#Portfolio#SpaceTech
Last Thursday we hosted one of our regular dinners with founders, LPs, and members of the DC Mafia. 🙌🏻
No rigid agenda. No deck. Just people building, backing, and thinking seriously about what comes next.
#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
Martin Sajon, CEO of @q99ai, joined NYSE Floor Talk to explain what quantum computing actually does and why timing matters. Quantum isn’t theoretical. For the right problems, it’s already operational.
🎥 Watch the full interview: tv.nyse.com/videos/q99-ceo-m…
🛰️ Last year @SkyloomG was acquired by @IonQ_Inc (NASDAQ: IONQ). For us, this is more than an exit.
We invested the first check before commercial clarity existed. Before anyone in the region was having this conversation.
#Portfolio
Worth reading 👇
Fernando Llaver, one of our portfolio founders, sat down with @forbesargentina to talk about Splight, the energy startup he built from scratch in Silicon Valley⚡
🔗 goo.su/g7cLE2#Portfolio#DraperCygnus
We just wrapped our #AnnualSummit2026 in San Francisco.
The DC Mafia in one room: founders, investors, and ecosystem builders having real conversations about where deep tech is going and who's building it.
See you at the next one! 🚀
#DraperCygnus#VentureCapital
We visited @splight_ai offices in SF during our Annual Summit. One of our earliest bets and proof of why we invest before the consensus forms. The energy problem is transmission.
Splight solves it with software.
Now, let Thomas Vadora (Co-founder) speak for himself🎥
#Portfolio
Last week, our portfolio founders met with @TimDraper and @AdamDraper at the #DCAnnualSummit2026 in San Francisco.
Private meetings where they talked about what they're building, the technical challenges behind it, and where they're taking these companies long-term💪🏻
We closed the day with a Deep Tech Asado in Standford made by @danielsalvu. The kind of ending that only makes sense in this community.
This is what it looks like when a firm builds real relationships with its founders. 🚀
#DCMafia
Yesterday, Lucas Czentner from Ayuvant and Victoria Costa Paz from Eywa Biotech pitched to a live audience and we joined the Meet The Drapers program, Silicon Valley edition.
There was also a private portfolio session with Tim. More on that soon! 🤫
The partnership with @TimDraper and @AdamDraper is what makes this possible. For our founders, San Francisco is always the next concrete milestone.
Having that entry point through the Draper Network changes what that milestone actually means.
Ninth year coming to Silicon Valley and third year bringing portfolio founders with us.
The Draper Network held its 41st Summit in Half Moon Bay and we showed up with companies building at the frontier. 🧵
#DraperCygnus#SiliconValley
We didn't come to SF for tourism. This partnership with @DraperVC means access to a network built over decades, and the founders we back deserve to be in those rooms.
Half Moon Bay was the right way to start it! 💪🏻
#DraperCygnus#VentureCapital#DeepTech
The first night of the #DCAnnualSummit2026 started over cocktails in Half Moon Bay.
Just founders, investors, and builders actually talking. @TimDraper set the tone: "We're going to mine asteroids, go to Mars, grow you a new kidney". A timeline for what's next🚀
#DraperCygnus
The Annual Summit 2026 kicked off today in San Francisco.
Welcome coffee, the first signs of what the week is about, and a visit to @vercel's offices.
Day one set the tone for what the week is actually about. 🧵
#DraperCygnus#AnnualSummit2026
This week, the Draper Cgynus Annual Summit returns to San Francisco🌉
In Silicon Valley, luck is what happens when you're in the right room, with the right people, asking the right questions. In the coming days, our founders will be in those rooms.
#VentureCapital
The portfolio walked into the room.
The founders of Eywa Biotech and @StammBio at the Family Office Investment Summit in Mexico City.
Different stages, same conviction: deep tech built by Latin American talent solves global problems.
Evidence, not narrative🚀
#Portfolio
In 2016, Unleash Immuno Oncolytics was an Argentine biotech engineering a virus to hunt tumor cells. No validation, no consensus, and no obvious market.
We invested anyway. Now, the company was acquired for USD 12,5M🚀
LATAM deep tech, 9 years early.
→ goo.su/II9oU
@SatsOnFire closes a $2.7M Seed round 🔥
Huge congrats to Franco Rodriguez Viau and the team. At 22 years, he's building critical infrastructure to tackle one of the fastest-growing global risks: wildfires.
Proud to be part🚀
#Portfolio
@silorealok raises $2.5M to turn grain into financial infrastructure 🌾The company enables remote verification of grain assets, making them insurable and financeable without moving them.
Proud to back @UrangaDelfin and the entire team💪🏼
🔗 goo.su/RGGNA#Portfolio
Juan Manuel Porcaro served as jury at Draper Startup House, and then he traveled to Costa Rica for the Caricaco Summit, where the conversation centered on how capital is beginning to move toward ecosystems that were long overlooked and are now proving their depth.
@Tatopata joined the @forbesargentina IA Total Disruption Summit and Emerging Tech Day for @crecimientoar.
His read: the most interesting opportunity sits at the intersection of AI and the physical world, where adoption is slower but impact runs deeper.
@danielsalvu took the stage at South Summit Brazil, Crecimiento's Startup Day and at the Sunset On the Rocks
His read: a new industrialization cycle is forming where tech, energy, and computing converge. When costs drop, scale changes.
March recap.
Five partners. Multiple rooms. One consistent argument. 🧵
@dgbravo in New York for Argentina Week, making the case for LATAM deep tech in front of global investors.
#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus#LATAM
Stämm just launched its first commercial bioprocessor🔬
A device that replicates cell growth conditions at scale, with precision, at point of care. From research project to commercial product. This is what the work looks like💪🏼
🔗 See more: surl.li/dgrtnp#Portfolio
We’ve invested in EYWA Biotech, a new Draper Cygnus portfolio company. 🧬
EYWA produces clinical-grade psilocybin through synthetic biology cutting costs 5x and time from weeks to days.
Deep science. Clear execution. Real impact. 🚀
💪🏼 Leaders like Alec Oxenford and Hernan Kazah helped bring public and private capital into the same room.
Diego Gonzalez Bravo represented Draper Cygnus.
Capital moves on credibility and long-term alignment, not headlines.
#VentureCapital#Argentina
#ArgentinaWeek2026 wrapped up in New York, convening global investors, policymakers and CEOs.
The agenda reflected a coordinated effort to reinsert the country into the global capital conversation🚀
What a finale 🔥
Huge congratulations to Victoria Costa Paz (Eywa) and Franco Rodríguez Viau (Satellites on Fire) at @meetthedrapers . $1 M invested: $750K for Eywa, $250K for Satellites.
Deep tech from Argentina. Proud to back you both 🚀
Finale day 🚀 Today 1:30 PM (Argentina), the @meetthedrapers Season 9 final goes live. Two portfolio founders on stage: Victoria Costa Paz (Eywa Biotech) and Franco Rodríguez Viau (Satellites on Fire).
Wishing both teams the best of luck in the final💪🏼
goo.su/Wwzz4l0
What if single-cell sequencing didn’t require expensive specialized instruments? 🧬
@argentagbio, part of our portfolio, is now an official @PacBio Compatible Partner. Its kit enables long-read, single-cell sequencing without dedicated capital equipment.
#DeepTech#Biotech
Two conversations worth watching🔥
Valentina Terranova with @ForbesArgentina. Ignacio Plaza with @ElObservador.
Two perspectives from our partners on building, investing, and thinking long term from LATAM to the world.
Links below⬇️
#DeepTech#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
Mental health remains one of the most under-addressed challenges in healthcare.
💊 EYWA Biotech, part of our portfolio, is building a science-first, biosynthetic platform to produce psychedelic compounds at pharmaceutical grade.
#DeepTech
El #PuntaTechMeetup2026 volvió a reunir a los que están construyendo la próxima etapa del ecosistema en la región 🚀
Estuvimos presentes con todo el equipo y organizamos un side event con la DC Mafia, apostando a vínculos de largo plazo.
#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
From Argentina to global markets: Martín Sajón (founder of @q99ai) on @neuramedia is El Inversor.🚀
One hour on capital, conviction, and what it takes to compete on a global stage from LATAM.
🔗 piped.video/live/lzlxLmDmfZE
Compartimos la guía de 50 fondos activos que publicó @LANACION y en la que estamos presentes. Una muestra del gran avance del ecosistema argentino.
Una lectura clave para founders que construyen desde LATAM💪🏼
🔗 goo.su/3XnzPS
2025 redefined what’s possible 🚀
LATAM is shaping the future of global innovation with new investments, stronger ecosystems, and founders who inspire us every day.
Thank you to our community for believing in this vision.
On to 2026🚀
#VentureCapital#DraperCygnus
Just aFter @IonQ announced their their acquisition agreement with @SkyloomG , we hosted Marcos Franceschini for a Deep Dive in Buenos Aires with our community, LPs, and the DC team🛰️
We back the impossible until it becomes inevitable ⚡
#SpaceTech
Our partner, Valentina Terranova, was named a Top Woman Investor in LATAM by @LAVCA 🚀
Proud to see her recognized among the leaders shaping the region’s venture ecosystem.
Full list: lavca.org/women#WomenInVC#VentureCapital