Top Social Venture Capital Firms San Francisco Bay Area – 10 – Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Top Social Venture Capital Firms San Francisco Bay Area – 10 – Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation


Top Social Venture Capital Firms San Francisco Bay Area – 10 – Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
1600 El Camino Real, Suite 155
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Tel: 650-319-7808
Fax: 650-323-4060

Draper Richards Kaplan Foundationa global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. Non-profit that invests using a VC strategy. Some investments: Idea.org, Kiva, LavaMae.

The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. We believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make the world a better place.

Borrowed from our venture capital legacy, we find, fund and support exceptional leaders with innovative and highly impactful ideas that have the potential to scale. We provide $300,000 of unrestricted capital over three years and, most importantly, we provide rigorous, ongoing support by joining the board of directors and partnering with the leader to help build capacity in the organization and scale their impact.

We invest in early-stage organizations and are often their first institutional investor, as well as their first “outside” board member. We invest in a wide variety of sectors:  our current portfolio includ es organizations working both domestically and internationally, helping to provide critical access to healthcare, education, food security, social justice, water and sanitation, transparency and accountability, and shelter.

Since we started in 2002 we have invested in 152 organizations, representing some of the most exciting new initiatives in the social sector. With the support of 50 donor partners, we closed our third fund: $65 million dedicated to supporting the next generation of 100 social entrepreneurs who will change the world.