Julian Capital

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Investor type

VC

Founded

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AUM

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Location

San Francisco, California, United States

Investment Ticket

$1-5 m

Investment Stage

Series A Seed Pre-seed

Region of investment

North America
Investor profile last updated: 31 August, 2026

Profile

Julian Capital is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, founded by Julian Shapiro, Jacob Jackson, and John Forbes. The firm specializes in deep technology investments, focusing on sectors such as chips, energy, robotics, and medtech. Julian Capital is known for its rapid decision-making process, typically deciding on investments within 7-14 days, and writing checks ranging from $500K to $2M. The team is composed of experienced professionals with backgrounds in companies like Demand Curve, Webflow, and Medstack.

Julian Capital invests primarily in pre-seed and seed stages, with a focus on deeptech sectors including robotics, chips, energy, medtech, climate, chemicals, materials, transportation, manufacturing, bio, space, and agriculture. The firm is active in the United States and has a strong network of deeptech VCs, which helps their portfolio companies achieve a 100% Seed to Series A rate. Julian Capital also provides additional support by investing up to $15M into their best-performing companies.

Notable investments by Julian Capital include Aalo - nuclear reactors, Extropic - probabilistic chips, Becoming - disease modeling, and Astro Mechanica - supersonic flight. These investments highlight the firm's commitment to supporting groundbreaking technologies and innovative startups in the deeptech space.

Industry

Quantum Computing Hardware Robotics Biotechnology ClimateTech Energy New materials MedTech AgriTech Foodtech Transportation Deeptech Defense Nuclear / Fusion

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Julian Capital is a venture capital firm. It backs companies at Series A, Seed and Pre-seed, writing tickets of $1-5 m.
Julian Capital is located in San Francisco, California, United States.
Julian Capital was founded in .
Julian Capital invests in companies and startups in Quantum Computing, Hardware, Robotics, Biotechnology, ClimateTech, Energy, New materials, MedTech, AgriTech, Foodtech, Transportation, Deeptech, Defense, Nuclear / Fusion.
Julian Capital invests in companies and startups in North America.
Julian Capital invests in companies and startups at Series A, Seed, Pre-seed.
Julian Capital usually invests $1-5 m on average.
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