Seed Deeptech VC

When we invest, we overhaul your growth strategy and design

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We become your growth team.
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We design your website.
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We write 750K-1M checks.
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We invest in deeptech.
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We decide in 14 days.
JULIAN SHAPIRO

Julian Shapiro

BELLCURVE, HEAP, WEBFLOW, CLEARBIT, TECHCRUNCH
JACOB JACKSON

Jacob Jackson

MEDSTACK, MAMMOTH CLIMATE
JOHN FORBES

John Forbes

DORMROOMFUND, ASH, ENDEX, PERIMETER
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Who we are

We're a deeptech seed fund investing across all deeptech sectors worldwide (chips, energy, robotics, medtech, etc.).

How we're useful

We built DeepChecks.vc, which is the largest source of deeptech deal flow in the world. Deep Checks' founder CRM—spanning every niche from mining robotics to photonic chip interconnects—is unparalleled. As a result, when we invest ($750K on average), we can intro you to many of your initial customers, partners, suppliers, and advisors. Because they're among the thousands of scientific founders who know us. 



And given the quantity of deeptech VCs behind Deep Checks, we're in an incredible position to make investor intros for your future fundraising. If you're a deeptech startup, we give you a serious advantage.

How we got here

We're builders like you. We build products to this day (including VCSheet.com). Personally, I'm also the creator of Velocity.js, the animation engine used by WhatsApp, Samsung, Uber, and tens of thousands of others. I received the Stripe Open Source grant for this open source work, and later I fell in love with growth marketing as a means to get the word out about my projects. This led to my role as VP of Marketing at Webflow ($4B valuation, I was among the first 8 employees) then the founder of DemandCurve.com (a Y Combinator startup) that grew LinkedIn, Microsoft, Ancestry, Tovala, and hundreds more. So, when we say we know how to help you get customers, we really do—we've done it countless times.

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we work for you
Thermodynamic Intelligence

Extropic.ai

We built every version of their site.
We built their sales acquisition funnel.
We've been embedded since day one.

Julian Capital is the best deal in silicon valley for founders.

Gill verdon, founder & CEO
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HOW WE DO IT?
Second Atomic Age

Aalo.com

We built their site and mantain it.
We advise on social content strategy.
We bring investors to every new fundraise.

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HOW WE DO IT?
efficient material synthesis

Stealth

We're the first check into a unicorn founder's second company.
The Deep Checks CRM allowed us to do 100s of GTM research calls.
We helped incubate the idea through daily Slack chats and research.

Who we are

meet our team
JULIAN SHAPIRO
JACOB JACKSON
JOHN FORBES
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 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. He was awarded the Stripe Open Source grant and was profiled in Forbes.

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, a healthcare DevOps platform, and then Head of Growth at Mammoth, an enterprise decarbonization company. He brings extensive sales and ops experience to hardware and climate companies.

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.

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