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Conviction is profitable. Idols are mentors.
Teams become family. Ideas change the world.

Boost

Boost VC is a startup accelerator that invests in 20-30 companies twice a year for three months. We provide housing and office space for each company located in the heart of Silicon Valley. We put talent, passion and drive alongside seasoned entrepreneurs and investors to build world changing companies.

By 2017 Boost will accelerate 100 Bitcoin companies out of the 250 total expected companies. We’re excited to push forward the future of technology, we are interested in everything from Enterprise to Rockets, 3D Printing to Bitcoin…and anything that gets us closer to building an Iron Man suit.

Basics

  • 3 months of programming in an immersive, entrepreneurial environment
  • Committed and dedicated mentors
  • Scheduled time with industry influencers and investors
  • Unique team building exercises
  • General legal counsel
  • Seed investment for a small percentage of the company

Benefits

  • Access to proprietary Boost Network... for life
  • Housing and office space in the heart of Silicon Valley
  • Shortest commute of all time
  • Dedicated team that lives and works with you
  • 20 companies to work alongside and encourage your success
  • Weekly all-team meetings + Family Dinner
  • Opportunity to find a solution to the problem you were set on this earth to solve

Mentors

Dan Held
Lead Product Manager, Blockchain

Zavain Dar
Investment Team, Innovation Endeavors

Jeff Wasson
Angel Investor, Sand Hill Angels

Sean Percival
Venture Partner, 500 Startups

Marlon Nichols
Director, Intel Capital

Sugath Warnakulasuriya
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor
Tim Draper
Founder, DFJ

Alon Goren
CEO, InvestedIn

Jude Gomila
Founder & President, Heyzap

Sean Jacobsohn
Venture Partner, Emergence Capital

Ben Davenport
Co-Founder & CEO, Beluga


(acquired by Facebook)

Bill Draper
Founder, DRK Foundation

Max Hoat
Founder & CEO, Livestream

Frank Creer
Founder, Zone Ventures

Bill Barhydt
Founder & CEO, Boom Financial

Topher Conway
Partner, SV Angel

Annie Pearl
Sr. Enterprise Product Manager, Box

Josh Buckley
Founder & CEO, MinoMonsters

Allan Young
Founder, Runway

Steven Roussey
Secret Weapon, Weebly

Hrach Simonian
Principal, Canaan Partners

Justin Miller
Founder & President, Notehall


(acquired by Chegg)

Collin West
Associate, Correlation Ventures

Ankit Agarwal
Founder & CEO, Micello

Andrew Flachner
Founder & CEO, RealScout

Kurt Thams
CTO, PayNearMe.com

Erin Gray
Associate, Tenaya Capital

Kevin Twohy
Principal, Novum Design

AJ Forsythe
CEO, iCracked Intergalactic

Michael Parikh
CTO, RealScout

Santi Subotovsky
Principal, Emergence Capital

John Fogelsong
Principal, Glynn Capital Management

Past Speakers

  • Marc Andreessen
    Andreessen-Horowitz
  • Logan Green
    Lyft
  • Brian Armstrong
    Coinbase
  • Sam Schillace
    Box
  • Bill Draper
    DRK Foundation
  • James Beshara
    Tilt

Team

  • Adam Draper

    Founder & Chief

  • Brayton Williams

    Founder, Finance and Ops

  • Ross McKelvie

    Lead Engineer

  • Krista Martin

    EA & Social Guru

Adam Draper is the founder of Boost VC. He is a fourth generation venture capitalist, and Super Smash player extraordinaire. Adam co-founded a startup called Xpert Financial where he learned all of his startup lessons. He now takes those lessons and guides startups with his “Be Awesome” philosophy of building. Before starting Boost, Adam angel invested in 20 companies including Coinbase, Plangrid and Practice Fusion. His favorite movie is Notting Hill and his favorite pizza joint is Round Table. He also makes pickles.
Brayton Williams is an entrepreneur who went from working at too-big-to-fail Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to startup Xpert Financial. He also leads the recruiting initiative so spends many days cold emailing potential Boost founders in search of crazy ideas. He was the first member of Boost to buy a bitcoin and unfortunately also the first to sell. When not telling people to stop spending money, Brayton attempts to get coffee shops to spell his name correctly.
Ross McKelvie is an engineering entrepreneur with a deep background in web applications, beginning at the age of twelve and continuing through the Computer Science program at Cal Poly, where he founded GRAPPPLE (acquired by Whodini) before joining Boost. When he's not leading product development at Boost, Ross' interests include consuming burritos and competitive paintball. He made his first dollar selling game mods and network tools to give Halo 2 players an unfair advantage in competitive multiplayer. He has secretly launched a viral startup in his past, but we won't tell you which.
Krista Martin keeps spirits and caffeine levels high at Boost VC. Her background includes sales, marketing, non-profits, and healthcare. She spends most her time trying to keep Adam on schedule, running all social media for Boost, herding tribesmen, or planning one of our awesome events. When not doing the impossible, Krista can usually be found hanging with her super cute Lab, at a nearby happy hour, marathoning sessions of "Friends," or laughing at her own jokes.

Portfolio Industries

Hexbg 3D Printing
Hexbg Bitcoin
Hexbg Consumer Goods
Hexbg Consumer Internet
Hexbg E-Commerce
Hexbg Enterprise Software
Hexbg Financial Tech
Hexbg Hardware
Hexbg Mobile
Hexbg Other

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