Julian Capital

Julian Capital is a San Francisco-based deeptech seed fund for founders who value future fundraising help, introductions to initial hires and customers, and help with branding and design. It invests at pre-seed and seed across robotics, chips, energy, materials, medtech, chemicals, and nearly every other deeptech hardware sector, and only backs companies making something physical. It owns DeepChecks.vc, the central hub of deeptech fundraising, which gives it relationships with nearly every VC in the space and a CRM of thousands of scientific founders. It becomes the portfolio company’s growth team, builds and maintains its website, and introduces it to critical customers, investors, and hires. Investments include Aalo, Extropic, Astro Mechanica, Parallel Bio, Becoming, GreenLIB, Maglut Heavy Industries, Reflex Robotics, Atomic, Hexium, and Eeva. Julian Capital decides in 7 to 14 days, writes $500,000 to $2 million checks roughly once a month, and invests up to an additional $15 million in its best companies. Julian Capital backs crazy ideas very early, including idea-stage founders, and requires a path to $100 million or more in revenue and a hardware or lab component, so AI software alone doesn’t qualify. It favors repeat founders, engineers, and scientists pursuing their life’s mission, and it embeds in weekly growth sprints to build social presence for recruiting, press, and sales.