Fifty-four companies. One direction.
From San Francisco to Detroit to Bangalore: the portfolio lives where the assets are, not where the conferences are. Drag the globe, tap a dot.
Selected investments across current and prior vehicles; not an exhaustive list. Partner Portfolio marks investments made personally by the partners before or outside the firm's vehicles. DGH vehicles were raised and managed by Draper Goren Holm, a predecessor firm that remains legally separate from DGB and includes a partner who is not part of DGB.
Early positions, now market leaders.
We have been building and backing the companies driving digitization since before most of these categories had names.
Ownera
Co-founded in our studio in 2018. Its intraday repo solution with J.P. Morgan and HQLAx processed $5 billion in trading volume in its first month.
Lit Financial
One of America's fastest-growing mortgage companies, on pace for $1B+ originated this year, with tokenized treasury infrastructure layered on top.
Aivre
The first appraisal platform verified for UAD 3.6 by both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the trust layer nearly every US mortgage passes through.
Dolomite
Live since 2018. On-chain money market and margin trading across one of the broadest asset sets in decentralized finance.
Four vehicles. One compounding flywheel.
Ownera* · LunarCrush* · Vertalo · AKRU* · Totle (exited to Coinbase)
Ownera* · LunarCrush* · AKRU* · Dolomite · Dogami
Lit Financial · Aivre · Thurman Labs · Calypto · GameBrain
Lit Financial · Aivre · LiveGistics · FinLete · GameBrain
* Studio-founded, then fund-backed: the model doubles down on its own winners. Prior-era companies reflect the Draper Goren Holm vehicles and may not represent current holdings.
Access is not a perk of our model. It is the product of it.
Cardinal Innovations Labs
Andorra
DeFi carry-trading protocol: perpetuals that let users lever the yield spread between staking assets and their borrow cost, plus a hedge that pays out when that spread turns negative. Backed by a shared LP pool on Aave V3.