DeepWork Capital

We're seed investors who write $500K checks and decide quickly. Once we invest, we roll up our sleeves to design you a better site and hop on Zoom calls to brainstorm how to acquire customers step-by-step. We focus on deep tech, but opportunistically invest across sectors. We love investing in Deep Tech Marketplaces B2B SaaS About Julian Shapiro I was the VP of Marketing for Webflow ($4B+ valuation). I then ran growth for Heap Analytics ($960M+ valuation), and I helped grow Clearbit. I then founded Demand Curve (YC S19) to help tens of thousands of startups grow. There, I acquired users for Imperfect Foods, Tovala, Outschool, and others. Our agency, Bell Curve, has grown Microsoft, Ancestry, TechCrunch, and more. I also wrote TechCrunch’s marketing column. Most people know me for my longform handbooks on Julian.com. There, I've built a large audience of startup employees (Twitter) plus I write a popular newsletter. Here’s a sampling of the nice things folks have said. Before this, I was an engineer. I built one of the most popular open source libraries: Velocity.js (Wikipedia, Github). For it, I was awarded the Stripe Open Source grant and I was profiled in Forbes. Prior to Julian Capital, I was an angel investor in Ramp, Republic, Mercury, Yassir, and ClassDojo.

We back teams who challenge the status quo. We’re an early-stage Venture Capital firm partnering with exceptional founders and teams from Seed and Series A. Investing in globally-minded founders across Europe, we’re passionate about B2B SaaS solutions, enterprise tech, and deeptech applications solving challenges faced by large enterprises. We believe in partnering for the long-haul, and champion founders throughout their journey.

Soma Capital is a multi-stage venture capital fund investing in “software automating the world” across any sector or geography, with an emphasis on B2B SaaS, Fintech and some frontier tech. We are relentlessly driven to build a 100+ year franchise to seed and double down on the next trillion dollar technology companies that will impact billions of people and push humanity forward. We’ve invested in +20 unicorns now since launching 7 years ago, usually early and often the very first check. We aim to use the size and scale of our portfolio across all sectors and geographies to accelerate helping closing customers and cross pollinating insights for the next generation of diverse up-and-coming founders. We’re arguably one of the fastest growing “emerging VC’s” in the world and beginning to get recognition alongside the “greats.” We're a lean team in a fast paced environment - think “startup VC” we’re a fund built by founders for founders. We just closed our 3rd seed fund (one of the largest in the world) . We have over $1b under management now and are launching a Follow On fund as well for growth to double down in our fastest growing growth stage companies.

We are a family of investors, entrepreneurs, strategists and operational specialists, drawn together by our passion for helping B2B founders build category-defining companies. Dawn is Europe’s leading specialist B2B software investor, with total commitments of $2bn. Dawn partners with founders building the next generation of global software leaders, supporting them to harness extraordinary teams, exceptional technology and scalable business models to create category-defining global companies. Dawn is an early-stage investor, backing companies from Series A and B, and continuing to fund the top-performing through growth rounds to exit. Its roster of investments includes Mimecast (formerly NASDAQ-listed, taken private by Permira in a $5.8bn transaction), iZettle (sold to PayPal for $2.2bn cash), Tink (purchased by Visa for $2.0bn), LeanIX (acquired by SAP), as well as current leaders, Collibra, Dataiku, Quantexa, amongst many others.

We look similar, but we're fundamentally different to other venture funds. We've built our own businesses. We're investing our own money. We're not limited in what we can do. We invest in people, not ideas. We seek founders who are passionate about building generationally great companies. We focus on fast growth tech companies ...but we’re infinitely inquisitive Our depth of experience and lack of constraint are powerful when it comes to working with great founders. Our experience lends itself to founders of technology start-ups who are building growing businesses and who value our capital and experience. We look for growth equity positions, where we’re all on the same side of the table. Because we've been there before, we’re interested in simple capital tables with aligned, participating shareholders. Our best experiences have been when we're the only shareholder, and when we invested at inception. We don’t have a fund horizon or limitations. This lets us play the long-game for the truly outstanding companies. Our view is that it's your company and we'll do what we can to help you succeed. We're happy to buy founder or secondary shares where it makes sense. Fundamentally, what matters to us is that we back high integrity founders to build world-class businesses. Our Investment Focus This is what we value and look for in our investments. But we’re infinitely inquisitive (that is, we break rules!). So if your business doesn’t necessarily tick all these boxes and you are raising venture / growth capital or might in the future, please drop us a line (no, it doesn’t need to be a warm intro!) Great people: Passionate entrepreneurs that we like and want to work with. Complex domains: Companies that are solving significant problems. Business software: Software that has the capacity to be mission critical over time. Recurring revenue: Business models which are – or look like – recurring revenue. Growing markets: Markets that are rapidly growing (though we often find the best SaaS businesses start with small TAMs). Founders we can help: Companies and founders who have a deep ability to scale and learn and where we understand their domains.

Jump provides series A and B capital to data-driven tech companies within the FinTech, IT & Data Infrastructure, B2B SaaS and Media sectors. We back entrepreneurs with bold vision seeking a business partner and not just a financial investor. SECTOR FOCUSED, THESIS-LED To be an effective partner, it’s important to have depth of understanding within micro-segments of specific sectors. OPERATING LENS We are active, engaged investors who bring resources to our investments including our Operating, Talent and Corporate/Business Development teams. SCALE ANYWHERE Great founders and opportunities are not confined to a geography. With nearly 50% of our investments outside the coasts, we seek opportunity, not convenience.