Julian Shapiro
Seed Investor at Julian.capital
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Shapiro is a General Partner investing in deeptech at Julian.capital and the founder of DeepChecks.vc, pairing engineering rigor with growth-marketing muscle to back hardware, chips, sensors, robotics, and medtech startups. A former engineer who created Velocity.js — an animation engine used by WhatsApp, Samsung, and Uber — he translated product-level craftsmanship into growth leadership as VP of Marketing at early Webflow and later as founder of Demand Curve. He excels at helping technical founders find customers and scale go-to-market until Series A, and his fund moves quickly with founder-friendly checks and practical operational support. Julian.com, where he’s written to millions for a decade, showcases his knack for breaking down hard skills and ideas into teachable frameworks. Uncommonly for a VC, he still ships product (e.g., VCSheet.com) and runs the largest deeptech founder CRM through Deep Checks, giving portfolio companies unusually direct access to niche customers and partners. Based in San Francisco, he blends open-source credibility, startup execution, and a curiosity that spans scientific breakthroughs, ranch life, and audiophile gear.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Y Combinator
English
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
zepto10
user-interface8
interface-design8
ui-design8
html7
documentation6
css4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
julianshapiro/blast
Jul 2014 - Jan 2017
Blast text apart to make it manipulable.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 5 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily focused on developing the front-end aspects of the "blast" repository. Their commits include implementing the core functionality to separate text into manipulable elements. They refactored code for Zepto support and made updates to the project's README documentation. The user made improvements to the rendering and display of text based on the delimiter used to split the text.
julianshapiro/velocity
Apr 2014 - Jun 2018
Accelerated JavaScript animation.
Contributions:550 commits, 10 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 3 months
animationjavascriptacceleratedjavascript-animation
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