seed VC across all deeptech sectors

Deeptech seed investors with serious growth and design talent

Julian Shapiro Julian Capital
Julian Shapiro
Jacob Jackson Julian Capital
Jacob Jackson
John Forbes Julian Capital
John Forbes

We look for founders who've found the last idea they'll ever work on—and who sweat the small details along the way. (That's us too.)

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We're VCs who write $750K checks and decide within 14 days. As engineers, marketers, and designers, we roll up our sleeves to help where it matters. We'll design sites from scratch, build customer acquisition funnels—whatever's needed.  We also built DeepChecks.vc, giving us the largest network of deeptech co-investors in the world.

How we help

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We're founders and builders. VCs who design and code. We've never lost our desire to build—in fact, it keeps us sharp when helping founders. One of our two products is VCSheet.com, the third-most popular fundraising site in the world. It's where founders figure out who to raise capital from.

Deep Checks is the largest source of deeptech deal flow in the world. We connect deeptech founders with the investors who invest in their niche. We've facilitated tens of millions in investment last year alone.

Deepchecks

Deep Checks is the largest source of deeptech deal flow in the world. We connect deeptech founders with the investors who invest in their niche. We've facilitated tens of millions in investment last year alone.

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ABOUT US

Founders know us for setting a high bar of truth over comfort. Frank feedback over coddling. We want to be the VC you can trust to tell you what others won't.

Julian

Shapiro

Cool stuff I worked on

Jacob

Jackson

Cool stuff I worked on

John

Forbes

Cool stuff I worked on
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Julian

Shapiro

Julian was the VP of Marketing for Webflow ($4B+ valuation) and later ran growth for Heap Analytics ($960M+ valuation).

He then founded Demand Curve (YC S19), the largest educator of growth marketing for startups. His agency, Bell Curve, has grown LinkedIn, Ancestry, TechCrunch, and more. 
He also wrote TechCrunch’s marketing column.

However, most people know him for his longform handbooks on Julian.com. There, he built a large audience of startup founders (Twitter) plus he writes a popular newsletter.

Before growth marketing, Julian was an engineer. He built one of the most popular open source libraries: Velocity.js (Wikipedia, Github). He was awarded the Stripe Open Source grant and was profiled in Forbes.

Prior to Julian Capital, Julian was an angel investor in the seed rounds of Owner, Yassir, Albedo, and Synthesis.

Jacob

Jackson

Jacob was a founder and startup revenue leader before turning investor.

After founding a med device company, he was the CRO at MedStack (acquired), a healthcare DevOps platform, and then Head of Growth at Mammoth, an enterprise decarbonization company.

As a proud Canadian, Jacob is a writer, an active angel investor, syndicate lead, and Principal at Julian Capital.

John

Forbes

John was a Partner at Dorm Room Fund for four years, where he led multiple competitive investments including Ash and Endex.

As an operator, he co-led sales and product from 0 to PMF as Chief of Staff at disaster coordination platform, Perimeter. Perimeter now supports disaster response nationwide, and John remains a board advisor.

How we think about startups

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How to rewrite your homepage for conversion
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What's the most effective way to acquire customers?
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How to attract top talent to your startup
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Which startups are most likely to succeed
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How to raise money from VCs