Beyond the Raise: Building a High-Growth Startup with Andy Tang, Partner at Draper Associates

Andy is also a founding partner at Draper Dragon, and serves as Chair of the Executive Committee at Draper University, a Silicon Valley accelerator and entrepreneurship education program, where he teaches finance and fundraising to aspiring entrepreneurs.  Finally, he also directs VCx, an invite-only alliance of family offices, which promotes generational relationship building, education, and coinvesting amongst members.  Today VCx has over 50 member families globally, with core businesses in retail, real estate, food and beverage, insurance, mining and resources, industrial, transportation, banking, to name a few.

With over 20 years of experience spanning operations, research and development, investment banking, and venture investing, Andy has been pivotal in seeding over 20 unicorns.  His  current investment interests include:  Bleeding Edge Technology (BET), AI infrastructure, Digital Health, and Digital Assets/Web3.