Armageddon: The world's end
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Julian Shapiro
Investor at Julian.capital
United States
Overview
Julian Shapiro is a Seed Investor at Julian.capital, specializing in investing in Series B stages within sectors like Consumer Internet and Enterprise, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in founding successful startups like Demand Curve and Bell Curve, Julian has also held notable roles such as VP of Marketing at Webflow, Inc., and has made investments in companies like Pogo, Givebutter, and Kindred.
Work Experience
Seed Investor
2022 - Current
Julian.capital is a seed fund writing $500K checks. We're among the best at growth and design: We embed into your team to co-run growth and help you reach your Series A. Feel free to submit your deck at deepchecks.vc, which we created, so I can take a look.
Julian Capital operates as an investment firm.
Founder (Y Combinator S19)
2019 - 2022
The largest educator in growth marketing. We've trained thousands of startups in growth, including teams from Autodesk, Microsoft, Zendesk, Basecamp, Techstars, and Superhuman.
Demand Curve designs courses for startups.
Founder
2019 - 2022
BellCurve.com is the growth agency for Ancestry, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Outschool, Tovala, and 100s of others.
BellCurve is a marketing agency and growth training program
Columnist: Growth Marketing
2019 - 2021
VP of Marketing
2014 - 2015
The leading visual website builder for professionals. I directed the entirety of Webflow's growth, including business development, paid acquisition, and conversion optimization.
Webflow is a visual web design platform, CMS, and hosting provider for building production websites and prototypes.
Raised $334,900,000.00 from CapitalG, Draper Associates, Accel, Y Combinator Continuity Fund and Silversmith Capital Partners.
Lead Developer (Stripe Open Source Grant)
2013 - 2014
I created one of the most popular open source libraries on the web: VelocityJS.org. Used by Samsung, WhatsApp, Uber, and tens of thousands of other companies.
Founder
2011 - 2013
A domain name services company.