Biography

Steve Jurvetson serves on TMC’s board of directors as Vice Chairman and Special Advisor to the CEO. He is a renowned venture capitalist with a distinguished track record in technology investment. As a co-founder of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, he led the VC firm’s founding investments in several companies that had successful IPOs (e.g., Tesla, Planet Labs, D-Wave) and others that were acquired (e.g., Skype, Nervana, Hotmail), representing $800 billion of aggregate value creation. In 2018, he co-founded Future Ventures to focus on trailblazing, purpose-driven entrepreneurs with unique ideas that have the potential to reinvent entire industries—from nuclear fusion and space exploration to sustainable energy and AI. Prior to Future Ventures, Steve was an R&D Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where seven of his chip designs were fabricated, and also worked in product marketing at Apple and NeXT. In 2016, President Barack Obama appointed Steve as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship. Mr. Jurvetson completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, as well as a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Business Administration.