# Notation Capital

> Notation Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 129 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brooklyn, United States
- Total investments: 129
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 25%
- Last fund: Jul 2020
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/9338255
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/notationcapital
- Website: https://notation.vc
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notationcapital

Notation Capital is a pre-seed venture capital firm that work with technical founding teams. Notation Capital focus on early-stage technical teams, often pre-market or even pre-product, primarily in New York, and provide capital and support to help go-to-market and scale the company.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for Notation Capital. Shizune tracks 4 team members at Notation Capital. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/notation-capital-2?utm_source=investor_profile

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.5M–$7M |
| Pre-Seed | $650k–$3.5M |
| Series A | $7M–$26M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 29 | 22% |
| Information Technology | 10 | 8% |
| Blockchain | 8 | 6% |
| Cryptocurrency | 7 | 5% |
| SaaS | 6 | 5% |

134 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 44 | 34% |
| Pre-Seed | 25 | 19% |
| Series A | 11 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 10 | 8% |
| Series B | 3 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 63 | 49% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nicholas Chirls | Partner | 53 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nicholas-chirls |
| Alex Lines | Founder & Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-lines |
| Jake Levine | Part Time Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-levine |
| Mackenzie Regent | Fractional COO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mackenzie-regent-69ff |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| aethelnode | Aethelnode is an AI-powered interaction infrastructure platform designed for financial institutions. It combines AI agents, real-time decision engines, and multi-channel interaction systems to unify voice, digital, and messaging touchpoints. Beyond automation, it enables intelligent decision-making and execution—helping organizations improveefficiency, elevate customer experience, and drive scalable growth and long-term value. | $2.8M | Seed | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Photon | A modern prescription network | $16M | Series A | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| REMOFVEULAR | Remofveular is an AI platform for manufacturers that turns fragmented production data into real-time operational guidance, helping operators increase throughput, maintain quality, and reduce costs through machine-learning-driven process optimization. | $1.5M | Seed | Nov 26, 2025 |  |
| Mesotaceous | mesotaceous is an AI workforce platform that enables companies to build, deploy, and manage autonomous agents across business operations. From scheduling and communication to CRM updates and workflow orchestration, mesotaceous replaces repetitive manual tasks with intelligent, coordinated AI agents. Designed for teams scaling operations, itintegrates deeply into existing systems and continuously learns from interactions to improve efficiency and execution quality. | $2.3M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Clay | Clay is a new type of tool that brings together the best parts of spreadsheets, coding & simple automation. | $40M | Series B | Jan 22, 2025 |  |
| NOAT | We create tools that kill smoking. | $7M | Seed | Jan 01, 2025 |  |
| IP Copilot | IP Copilot is a SaaS company that offers IP discovery and management services. | $4.2M | Seed | Dec 12, 2024 |  |
| Photon | A modern prescription network | $9M | Seed | Aug 15, 2024 |  |
| QA Wolf | QA Wolf is a cloud-based platform designed to detect bugs. The company's browser testing platform includes features such as video and logs debugging, email alerts, test creation, code conversion, one-click test running, deployment, and test failures summary, allowing clients to debug programs in an efficient and convenient manner. | $36M | Series B | Jul 23, 2024 |  |
| Station70 | Station70 provides scalable and resilient disaster recovery solutions. | $5M | Seed | Apr 01, 2024 |  |

10 of 129 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Initialized Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/initialized-capital) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Notation Capital invest in?

Notation Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Blockchain startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 129 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Notation Capital's check size?

Notation Capital typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$7M at Seed, $650k–$3.5M at Pre-Seed and $7M–$26M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Notation Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Notation Capital?

Public channels for Notation Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Notation Capital?

The team at Notation Capital includes Nicholas Chirls (Partner), Alex Lines (Founder & Partner) and Jake Levine (Part Time Partner). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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