A pre-seed investor writing $500K checks into startups building transformative technology that will improve one billion lives.
Boost VC is a pre-seed investment firm founded by Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. It leads pre-seed rounds with $500,000 checks and invests in 70+ startups every year across deep tech areas including nuclear, aerospace, biotech, AI, and hardware. The firm focuses on generalist, high-risk bets and has backed companies that have collectively gone on to raise $5B+ in follow-on capital. Alumni include Coinbase, Amplitude, and PlanGrid.