# Juniper

> Juniper is a VC fund backing Biotechnology, Medical and Genetics. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- Website: https://www.climatecapital.co/bio

Juniper is a VC fund focused on Biotechnology and Medical. Climate Capital Bio is an investment firm.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Juniper. Shizune tracks 2 team members at Juniper. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/climate-capital-bio?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Biotechnology | 6 | 67% |
| Medical | 2 | 22% |
| Genetics | 2 | 22% |
| Life Science | 2 | 22% |
| Mining | 1 | 11% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Pre-Seed | 4 | 44% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 7 | 78% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jennifer Kan | Founding Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jennifer-kan |
| Michael Luciani | Founding Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-luciani |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Transition Metal Solutions | Transition Biomining is a metal ore mining technology company that offers data driven solutions for copper extraction and mining. | $6M | Seed | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| ScienceMachine | ScienceMachine is an AI startup accelerating biotech data analysis with a fully autonomous agent, | $3.5M | Pre-Seed | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Izote Biosciences | Biomanufacturing Scale-Up Solution | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Feb 01, 2025 |  |
| Cache | Biomolecules are the next bits of the 21st century. So we're developing the first wet operating system for storing, accessing, and computing biomolecules at scale to make them widely accessible and useful. We're enabling the storage and access to the whole data universe—digital and biological—forever so that we don't have to deleteor dispose of anything ever again. |  | Seed | May 07, 2024 |  |
| Umaro Foods | Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed. | $1.8M | Seed | Mar 06, 2024 |  |
| Trilobio | Trilobio was created to improve synthetic biology and life science research processes by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an "app store" to package and distribute lab protocols as code. The goal is to deploy fully automated labs that dramatically improve data quality and reproducibility. | $3M | Seed | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Trilobio | Trilobio was created to improve synthetic biology and life science research processes by building robotic lab automation modules coupled with an "app store" to package and distribute lab protocols as code. The goal is to deploy fully automated labs that dramatically improve data quality and reproducibility. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Nov 29, 2023 |  |
| Wild Microbes | Wild Microbes is developing a microbial platform to produce faster and cheaper sustainable products from plastic to protein. | $3.3M | Pre-Seed | Feb 21, 2023 |  |
| Aralez Bio | Aralez Bio uses engineered enzymes to make valuable products in a sustainable way.The company has invented a novel enzymatic method for synthesizing noncanonical amino acids (ncAAs) also called unusual or unnatural amino acids. Its proprietary approach enables over 100 ncAAs to be synthesized with perfect enantiopurity in just a single step, withwater as the only byproduct |  | Seed | Oct 17, 2022 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Nucleus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nucleus-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [1517 Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/1517-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Argon Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/argon-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Freeflow Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freeflow-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Nucleus Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k16-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Lowercarbon Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lowercarbon-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Juniper invest in?

Juniper invests primarily in Biotechnology, Medical and Genetics startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Juniper?

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### Who are the partners at Juniper?

The team at Juniper includes Jennifer Kan (Founding Partner) and Michael Luciani (Founding Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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