Andy Tang

Partner, Draper Associates | Founding partner, Draper Dragon | VC with 10+ decacorns/unicorns. Now investing in AI, biotech, deeptech & crypto.

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 30 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investmentsInvested this year
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Feb 2026
The official LinkedIn page of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and America250.org, Inc., together known as America250, the official organization charged by Congress to celebrate the 250th anniversary of signing the Declaration of Independence—America’s Semiquincentennial. America250’s mission is to celebrate and commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, marking America’s Semiquincentennial. We aim to inspire our fellow Americans to reflect on our past, strengthen our love of country, and renew our commitment to the ideals of democracy through programs that educate, engage, and unite us as a nation. America250 will foster shared experiences that spark imagination, showcase the rich tapestry of our American stories, inspire service in our communities, honor the enduring strength, and celebrate the resilience of the United States of America.
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May 2025
NewLimit is a biotechnology company working to radically extend human healthspan. We’re developing medicines to treat age-related diseases by reprogramming the epigenome, a new therapeutic mechanism to restore regenerative potential in aged and diseased cells. We leverage functional genomics, pooled perturbation screening, and machine learning models to unravel the biology of epigenetic aging and disease using experiments of unprecedented scale. All correspondence from NewLimit will come from an @NewLimit.com email address.
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Apr 2025
Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.
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Jan 2025
Kamau Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, next-generation gene correction company harnessing high efficiency targeted gene integration to develop a new class of therapies with the aim to cure a wide range of serious and life-threatening diseases. Our novel gene correction approach, called homology-directed repair (HDR), overcomes prior limitations in specificity, efficiency, and durability of gene editing to offer broad potential for transforming human health outcomes through the delivery of one-time curative cell therapies. Our platform aims treat or cure a range of serious genetic diseases with unmet medical needs.
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2025
AI-powered laser defense systems for the growing UAS drone threat. At Aurelius, we are shaping the future of defense with autonomous unmanned directed energy laser systems, that can protect our soil and our allies against Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) drones at scale. We move fast, owning the full lifecycle from R&D to deployment, so capability goes from design to the field without delay. Our lasers fire at the speed of light, cost dollars per shot not millions, and scales to protect the places that matter most. If you want to build quickly and see your work deployed in the real world, we want you here. Check out our careers page at https://www.aureliussystems.com/careers or send us an email at contact@aureliussystems.us
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2023
Radiant is building the world’s first mass-produced portable nuclear microreactors. The company’s first reactor, Kaleidos, is a 1 MW failsafe microreactor that can be transported anywhere power is needed. Founded in 2020, Radiant plans to test its first reactor in 2026, with initial customer deployments beginning in 2028.
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2023
Silicon Valley-based hardware startup specializing in hypersonics. We want to lower the cost of hypersonic development in the short term and drop zeros off the cost of space launch in the long term.
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2022
Firehawk manufactures rocket motors and propellants for missile and artillery systems, expanding U.S. industrial capacity for energetics production.
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Jan 2021
Venus Aerospace has built the first generational improvement in rocket engine technology since the Apollo missions. After the fastest and most capital-efficient rocket engine development in history, on May 14, 2025, Venus executed the first ever test flight of a high-thrust rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE), ushering in the future of rocket propulsion.
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2021
Making extinction a thing of the past. Colossal is a breakthrough bioscience and genetic engineering company that builds radical new technologies to advance the field of genomics. Colossal creates disruptive technologies for extinct species restoration, critically endangered species protection and the repopulation of critical ecosystems that support the continuation of life on Earth. The company is the first to apply CRISPR technology for the purposes of species de-extinction. Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for the future economies and biological necessities of the human condition through cutting-edge science and technologies.
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2021
The world’s leading prediction market platform, where users trade on the outcomes of real-world events. By putting real money behind opinions, Polymarket cuts through noise, bias, and speculation to surface a single powerful signal: what people actually believe will happen. From elections and geopolitics to business, culture, and breaking news, Polymarket transforms headlines into live markets with constantly updating probabilities. The result is a real-time, crowd-driven forecast of the future — more dynamic and often more accurate than traditional polling or expert analysis. Polymarket provides clarity. Not through commentary, but through markets.
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2019
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. is a Canadian quantum technology company, and one of the worlds leading photonic quantum hardware providers. Founded in 2016, Xanadus mission is to build quantum computers that are useful and available to people everywhere. To achieve this mission, the company has taken a full-stack approach and builds hardware, software, and pursues state-of-the-art research with select partners. The company is also advancing the field of quantum machine learning (QML) through the development of PennyLane, an open-source project that has become a leading software library among quantum researchers and developers. Xanadu is bringing together exceptional minds from around the world to build something extraordinary. Learn more at xanadu.ai
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2019
Our mission is to unlock the next era of financial, creative, and personal freedom. Gemini (NASDAQ: GEMI) envisions a future where crypto will redesign the global financial system, the internet, and money in a way that provides greater choice, independence, and opportunity for all. As a trusted bridge between the traditional financial system and the emerging cryptoeconomy, we are providing access for individuals and institutions to a decentralized future that is more open, fair, and secure.
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2018
At Ledger, we’re proud to be the global platform for digital assets and Web3, with over 20% of the world’s crypto assets secured through our Ledger devices. With our headquarters in Paris, and offices in Vierzon, Grenoble, Montpellier, London, Portland, Geneva, Zurich and Central Singapore, we have a team of around 600 professionals developing a variety of products and services to enable individuals and companies to securely buy, store, swap, grow and manage crypto assets – including the Ledger hardware wallets line with more than 7.5 millions units already sold in 200 countries. We’re a team of experts pushing the limits of what’s possible, united by our common goal to unlock true freedom through digital ownership, making technology accessible for all. We believe in a world where users, creators and enterprises manage their value with ownership and freedom. Our curiosity drives us to innovate, empowering individuals on a global scale. We believe change is constant and our team moves forward as one, with a culture of problem-solving where every employee is empowered and supported to challenge tradition and create solutions. Our mission is simple: to make self-custody accessible and give people the keys to their own financial futures. If you want to make a true impact, we want you to join us at Ledger.
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2017
ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth. ICEYE owns the worlds largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system. ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future. Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1,000 employees. We’re a growing international team of builders. Join us.
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The official LinkedIn page of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission and America250.org, Inc., together known as America250, the official organization charged by Congress to celebrate the 250th anniversary of signing the Declaration of Independence—America’s Semiquincentennial. America250’s mission is to celebrate and commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, marking America’s Semiquincentennial. We aim to inspire our fellow Americans to reflect on our past, strengthen our love of country, and renew our commitment to the ideals of democracy through programs that educate, engage, and unite us as a nation. America250 will foster shared experiences that spark imagination, showcase the rich tapestry of our American stories, inspire service in our communities, honor the enduring strength, and celebrate the resilience of the United States of America.
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May 2025
NewLimit is a biotechnology company working to radically extend human healthspan. We’re developing medicines to treat age-related diseases by reprogramming the epigenome, a new therapeutic mechanism to restore regenerative potential in aged and diseased cells. We leverage functional genomics, pooled perturbation screening, and machine learning models to unravel the biology of epigenetic aging and disease using experiments of unprecedented scale. All correspondence from NewLimit will come from an @NewLimit.com email address.
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Apr 2025
Scout AI is a frontier AI lab for U.S. defense. It was founded in 2024 by Colby Adcock and Collin Otis with a mission to deploy mission-ready AI agents across unmanned systems for the Department of War and its allies. Its Fury foundation model transforms uncrewed ground, air, sea, and space platforms and payloads into intelligent, collaborative teammates that multiply warfighter effectiveness. Scout AI is based in Sunnyvale, CA and is backed by leading institutional investors including Booz Allen Ventures, Align Ventures, Draper Associates, and Perot Jain.
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Jan 2025
Kamau Therapeutics is a clinical-stage, next-generation gene correction company harnessing high efficiency targeted gene integration to develop a new class of therapies with the aim to cure a wide range of serious and life-threatening diseases. Our novel gene correction approach, called homology-directed repair (HDR), overcomes prior limitations in specificity, efficiency, and durability of gene editing to offer broad potential for transforming human health outcomes through the delivery of one-time curative cell therapies. Our platform aims treat or cure a range of serious genetic diseases with unmet medical needs.
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2025
AI-powered laser defense systems for the growing UAS drone threat. At Aurelius, we are shaping the future of defense with autonomous unmanned directed energy laser systems, that can protect our soil and our allies against Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) drones at scale. We move fast, owning the full lifecycle from R&D to deployment, so capability goes from design to the field without delay. Our lasers fire at the speed of light, cost dollars per shot not millions, and scales to protect the places that matter most. If you want to build quickly and see your work deployed in the real world, we want you here. Check out our careers page at https://www.aureliussystems.com/careers or send us an email at contact@aureliussystems.us
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