Pre-seed deep tech investors in California
30 of 39 pre-seed deep tech firms that report a preference say they can lead. 1 active since September.
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Julian CapitalActive Oct 14
Julian Shapiro, Jacob Jackson+1 on the team
Ben Patterson, Daniel Ramirez
Hany Nada, Scott Stanford+3 on the team
Don Sheu, Enrico Marini Fichera
Rick Moss, Wes Selke+1 on the team
Julia Moore, Lindy Fishburne+2 on the team
Peter Lee, Yipeng Zhao+1 on the team
Ari Stiegler, Mike Loretz+2 on the team
Hyung Chun, MD, Shannon Bergstedt+11 on the team
David Fleck, Kevin Barrett
Jay Eum, Jeff Herbst+1 on the team
Junguang (Peter) Pan, Gary Lin+1 on the team
Michael Liao, Ren Du+1 on the team
Karthee Madasamy, Ruchi Dana+2 on the team
Poseidon Ho
Ryan Gembala
Balaji Daggupati, Keith Adams+3 on the team
Andrew Ogawa, Maarten 't Hooft+2 on the team
Peter Shannon, Luka Tomljenovic
Avidan Ross, Chrissy Meyer+3 on the team
Lucas Harrington, Matt Krisiloff+1 on the team
Amit Chaturvedy, Carlos (CK) Kokron+6 on the team
Po Bronson, Stephen Chambers
Jeremy Brewer, Sam Levac-Levey+4 on the team
Soso Sazesh
Charles Shao, Chun Xia+4 on the team
Sunil Nagaraj, Camila Orozco Gil
Joe Wilson, Emily Lindberg+1 on the team
Chris Kim, Nate Williams
Sierra Peterson, Sarah Sclarsic+5 on the team
Ariel Ganz, PhD, Benjamin Rolnik
Chad Cazel, Pete DiSalvo
Celestine Schnugg
Dan Weirich, Hiro Yoshikawa+5 on the team
Christina Jenkins, Frank Levinson+1 on the team
Andrew Krowne, Pascal Levensohn+5 on the team
Ben Chelf, Ben Patterson+1 on the team
Ela Madej, Seth Bannon
Danny Chen, Gal Treger+5 on the team
Victoria Beasley, Evaline Tsai, Ph.D.+3 on the team
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How many pre-seed deep tech investors in california are there?
Mode VC tracks 52 firms on this list as of 2026-10-15. 1 have been active since September 2026.
What check size do pre-seed deep tech investors in california write?
The most reported band is $500K to $1M, reported by 18 firms on this list.
Which pre-seed deep tech investors in california lead rounds?
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