# Julian Capital

> Julian Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. See 18 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 18
- Last investment: Mar 2026
- Lead investor: 6%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/julian-capital
- Website: https://www.julian.capital

Julian Capital is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Julian Capital is the best deeptech seed fund for founders who value (1) future fundraising help (2) introductions to initial hires and customers and (3) help with branding and design. Why? Because they own DeepChecks.vc—the central hub of deeptech fundraising, where they know every VC in the space and have thousands of scientific founders in theirCRM who can help founders.Unlike typical deeptech funds, Julian Capital provides full-stack design execution by building and maintaining portfolio companies' websites from scratch, plus hands-on growth strategy work backed by founder Julian Shapiro's background as VP of Marketing at Webflow and growth lead at major startups.They invest in robotics, chips, energy, materials, medtech, chemicals, and nearly every other deeptech hardware sector.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 22% |
| Robotics | 3 | 17% |
| Biotechnology | 3 | 17% |
| Energy | 2 | 11% |
| Life Science | 2 | 11% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 67% |
| Series B | 3 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 10 | 56% |
| Canada | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Julian Shapiro | General Partner | 23 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julian-shapiro |
| Jacob Jackson | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-jackson-764e |
| John Forbes | Principal | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-forbes-9407 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Molagri | Molagri is an agricultural biotechnology company that develops crop protection solutions using biological approaches, focusing on products such as bioinsecticides to help manage pests and support crop health in agriculture. | $500K | Pre-Seed | Mar 31, 2026 |  |
| Aalo Atomics | Aalo Atomics designs and builds small nuclear fission reactors, to sell affordable and reliable clean power and heat. | $100M | Series B | Aug 19, 2025 |  |
| 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. | $8M | Seed | May 06, 2025 |  |
| Earth | Earth is the creators of soil transformation, an environmentally-friendly alternative to burial and cremation. Over a 30-day process, they gently transform a body into nutrient-rich soil.Families receive a portion of this soil - to scatter or plant - and the remaining soil is sent to conservation land that we acquire, to restore and protect itfor future generations.Their experience is carbon neutral, digital-first and underpinned by best-in-class family care.Earth is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and was founded in 2020. |  | Series B | Oct 10, 2024 |  |
| Aalo Atomics | Aalo Atomics designs and builds small nuclear fission reactors, to sell affordable and reliable clean power and heat. | $27M | Series A | Aug 14, 2024 |  |
| Hexium | Hexium is advancing domestic isotope enrichment to initially power next-generation fission and fusion reactors. Building on proven AVLIS technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Hexium’s team of global leaders in laser isotope separation and industrial-scale production are creating a reliable, scalable supply of isotopes, startingwith lithium-6 and lithium-7. Hexium is driving the transition to cleaner, safer, and more sustainable energy solutions. | $8M | Seed | Jul 24, 2024 |  |
| Astro Mechanica | Astro Mechanica has designed a new form of jet engine—the Electric Adaptive Engine. | $500K | Seed | Feb 27, 2024 |  |
| Extropic AI | Extropic AI is a hardware startup that is building a chip optimized to run large language models, or LLMs. | $14.1M | Seed | Dec 04, 2023 |  |
| Elicit | Elicit is an artificial intelligence research assistant that uses language models to help users automate research workflows. This research assistant finds relevant papers without a perfect keyword match, summarizes takeaways from the papers, and extracts key information from the papers. | $9M | Seed | Sep 25, 2023 |  |
| Reflex Robotics | Reflex Robotics is building affordable ($10k) humanoid robots to automate dangerous and repetitive tasks in logistics & manufacturing. We envision a future where everyone has their own humanoid robot that can do the boring stuff and help them focus on more fulfilling work.Our robots are designed & built in-house by an engineering teamthat led development of the Stretch robot at Boston Dynamics & key parts of the Model S,X,Y production line at Tesla. | $7.3M | Seed | Sep 02, 2023 |  |

10 of 18 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Valor Equity Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/valor-equity-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Fifty Years](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fifty-years) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Julian Capital invest in?

Julian Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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 Julian Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Julian Capital?

The team at Julian Capital includes Julian Shapiro (General Partner), Jacob Jackson (Principal) and John Forbes (Principal). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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