Adam Draper, Scion of the VC Royal Family, collects more than $ 87 million for the new Boost fund

Adam Draper established his own name as part of the family’s fourth generation. William’s great-grandson and the son of the evangelist Bitcoin Tim Draper, Adam abandoned the UCLA to try the start-up game, founding a secondary market called Xpert Financial. He realized that his heart is investing, creating a crowdfunding platform which quickly rotated in its own venture capital company, Boost VC, which focused on writing pre-Têtees vouchers to startups.

Today, 13 years later, Boost VC has raised its fourth fund, a vehicle of $ 87 million mainly supported by family offices and high net individuals, including his father, grandfather and cousin. (“When your cousin invests money in you, you go:” Oh my God, I cannot lose this money “, jokes Adam.)

I ask Adam the inevitable question, which he says he does not get often: how does he think of the term baby nepo? “No one talks about nepotism when he is a farmer at the farmer in generations,” he replies. “They talk about it when it has to do with capital or power.”

As Adam explains, Venture is the job of drapers – he even wrote a book on the lessons that his grandfather has gone to him, describing VC as “the art form of our family”. And more importantly, Adam has the history to save him, with many deep technological startups that he supported for late or becoming public purposes, including colossal biosciences of $ 10 billion, which claims to have brought back the disastrous wolf of extinction, as well as Coinbase. According to boost figures, the first two funds of the company in 2013 and 2016 had DPI, a rapid capital metric for the amount of capital reimbursed to investors, of 2.15x and 4.35x, respectively.

Although the Draper family is now best known for its enthusiasm around the crypto, including Tim’s emblematic decision in 2014 to buy 30,000 bitcoins sold at auction by the American Government of Raid on the Silk Road, Boost Investts in different sectors in what they call Deep Tech, including everything, from bioscience space. Adam’s co -founder, Brayton Williams, says that they on average an agreement per week.

Although this pace can mention reasonable diligence issues, Williams says that around 90% of their transactions are sent to them by sources of trust. “You always take three founding calls, but we still generally believe more than more diligence does not lead you to a better decision,” he said, citing his investment in Radiant Nuclear, which they made at their first 20-minute meeting with society. (Radiant, which plans to launch the first new commercial reactor in more than 50 years, has just ended a C series of $ 165 million in May.)

“You judge fundamentally simply, this person can do what they say that they are going to do, and are they engaged for the next 20 years to do this thing,” explains Williams. For their part, the sheets seem to be hired for at least one more generation.

Leo Schwartz
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E-mail: leo.schwartz@fortune.com

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