# Juniper: portfolio, investments and team > Juniper is a vc firm based in United States. 2 investments on record, latest Sept 2018. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team. Source: https://millionrounds.com/fund/juniper (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article) United States · [Investor](https://millionrounds.com/investors) # Juniper Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in Sep 2026, closing $20M. Last cheque observed Sep 2018. Email Quiet New fund $20M, Sept 2026 VC firm Pre-seed Seed Deep Tech Biology Biomanufacturing Follow Juniper and see its new cheques in your feed. [Start following](https://millionrounds.com/login?join=1&why=follow&next=%2Ffund%2Fjuniper) Cheques on record **0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 2 on record Since the last cheque **2965** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec Median round **$14M** Rounds led **0 of 2** Pitch Juniper ## Juniper highlights - 01 2 rounds on record - 02 Mostly Series B: 100% of its rounds ## What they do > Juniper is a deep tech venture capital firm accelerating the Bioindustrial Revolution. From their own website - **Type:** VC firm - **Cheque size:** Not stated - **Stages:** Pre-seed Seed - **Sectors:** Deep Tech Biology Biomanufacturing - **Based in:** United States - **Cold pitches:** Not accepted ## The record Every round we can evidence, newest first **2 appearances** - **2018** 1 round - **Sept** **[ioTium](https://millionrounds.com/company/iotium)** Series B · US · FinSMEs **$14M** With 4 others - **2017** 1 round - **Jul** **[Lightbend](https://millionrounds.com/company/lightbend)** US · FinSMEs **$15M** With 5 others An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor. ## The team Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration **24 named** AM **Adolfo M Pena** Adolfo Pena is a Member of the Management Executive Committee of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed AP **Alexis P. Michas** Alexis P. Michas is a Principal of the General Partner, Juniper Targeted Opportunity Investors, and a Principal of the Investment Manager, Juniper Investment Company, LLC. i Filing they signed BP **Barney P Schauble** Managing Principal of Nephila Capital Ltd., the Trading Manager and Promoter i Filing they signed BT **Benjamin Thomas** Executive Officer i Filing they signed BJ **Bryan J. Grabowsky** Managing Member i Filing they signed CC **Chuckra Chai** Mr. Chai is the managing member of the general partner of the General Partner and the Investment Manager. i Filing they signed DG **David Glassman** Alternate Director i Filing they signed DO **David Oliveira** Director i Filing they signed DG **Dawn Griffiths** Director i Filing they signed EH **Elliot Hubbard** Alternate Director i Filing they signed FM **Frank Majors** Director of the Issuer and Managing Principal of Nephila Capital Ltd., the Trading Manager and Promoter i Filing they signed FR **Frederic Ryser** Director i Filing they signed GH **Greg Hagood** Managing Principal of Nephila Capital Ltd., the Trading Manager and Promoter i Filing they signed GP **Gregory P Hagood** Director and Vice-President of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed GS **Guy Swayne** Guy Swayne is the Authorized Signatory of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed HM **Helen M Thornton** Helen Thornton is the Chief Operations Officer of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed JD **Jean-Paul Dyer** Jean-Paul Dyer is Chief Legal Officer of Nephila Capital, Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed JI **Jeffrey Ingelman** Jeffrey Ingelman is the CCO of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed JA **John A. Bartholdson** John A. Bartholdson is a Principal of the General Partner, Juniper Targeted Opportunity Investors, and a Principal of the Investment Manager, Juniper Investment Company, LLC. i Filing they signed JC **John Collis** Director i Filing they signed LP **Laura P Taylor** Laura Taylor is an Alternate Director and a Member of the Management Executive Committee of Nephila Capital Ltd., the Trading Manager i Filing they signed LJ **Louis J. Grabowsky** President i Filing they signed MM **Maria M Marsh** Maria Marsh is a Member of the Management Executive Committee of Nephila Capital Ltd., the Trading Manager i Filing they signed PM **Paul M Pereech** Paul M Pereech is the Chief Financial Officer of Nephila Capital Ltd., the General Partner i Filing they signed We also hold **24** people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them. ## What they claim to have backed From their own portfolio page (on their website) **44** of 60 we have independently watched raise [Altatech](https://millionrounds.com/company/altatech)[Anthology](https://millionrounds.com/company/anthology)[Aralezbio](https://millionrounds.com/company/aralez-bio)[Atomo Coffee Sustainable](https://millionrounds.com/company/atomo-coffee)[Beyond Aero Makes](https://millionrounds.com/company/beyond-aero)[Biosphere](https://millionrounds.com/company/biosphere)[Black Sheep Foods](https://millionrounds.com/company/black-sheep-foods)[Cambium Carbon Marketplace](https://millionrounds.com/company/cambium-carbon)[Cambrium Bio Novel](https://millionrounds.com/company/cambrium)[Colossal The world's](https://millionrounds.com/company/colossal-biosciences)[Compound Foods Climate-proof,](https://millionrounds.com/company/compound-foods)[Coperniccatalysts](https://millionrounds.com/company/copernic-catalysts)[Daanaa Power transfer](https://millionrounds.com/company/daanaa)[Dclimate](https://millionrounds.com/company/dclimate)[Divigas Exponentially better](https://millionrounds.com/company/divigas)[Dryad Ultra-early wildfire](https://millionrounds.com/company/dryad)[Ergbio](https://millionrounds.com/company/erg-bio)[EvolOH High-throughput manufacturing](https://millionrounds.com/company/evoloh)[Generalsense](https://millionrounds.com/company/general-sense)[HILOS 3D printing](https://millionrounds.com/company/hilos)[Hoxton Farms Crafting](https://millionrounds.com/company/hoxton-farms)[Imicrobes](https://millionrounds.com/company/imicrobes)[Impossible Metals Bio-extraction](https://millionrounds.com/company/impossible-metals)[Interstellar Lab Moonshot](https://millionrounds.com/company/interstellar-lab)[Intramotev Autonomous Rail](https://millionrounds.com/company/intramotev)[Living Carbon Engineering](https://millionrounds.com/company/living-carbon)[Matereal](https://millionrounds.com/company/matereal)[Melibio Groundbreaking bee-free](https://millionrounds.com/company/melibio)[Microterra](https://millionrounds.com/company/microterra)[Modern Synthesis Merging](https://millionrounds.com/company/modern-synthesis)[Muddy Machines Autonomous](https://millionrounds.com/company/muddy-machines)[Photon Marine Developing](https://millionrounds.com/company/photon-marine)[Phuc Labs Using](https://millionrounds.com/company/phuc-labs)[Piersica Building next](https://millionrounds.com/company/piersica)[Renaissance Fusion Stellarators,](https://millionrounds.com/company/renaissance-fusion)[Sciencemachine](https://millionrounds.com/company/sciencemachine)[Simplifyber Transforming the](https://millionrounds.com/company/simplifyber)[Tandemrepeat](https://millionrounds.com/company/tandem-repeat)[Transaera A new](https://millionrounds.com/company/transaera)[Trilo](https://millionrounds.com/company/trilo)[Umarofoods](https://millionrounds.com/company/umaro-foods)[Valleydao](https://millionrounds.com/company/valleydao)[Wildmicrobes](https://millionrounds.com/company/wild-microbes)[Zero Acre Farms](https://millionrounds.com/company/zero-acre-farms) Avalanche Energy Designs Cache-dna Cacultured Cemvita Factory Microbes-as-a-service Circe Bioscience Carbon-negative Concert Bio Microbiome Dotomics EEXION Safe, sustainable, Evolvlife Genyro Izote Magrathea Metals Electrochemically Mars Materials Sequestering Materiabioworks Maverick Biometals Lithium bioextraction POW Bio AI-driven, and 12 more Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded. New fund on file **$20M** raised in Sept 2026 From its SEC filing, not a journalist: a firm that has just raised has money to deploy. ## The cheque Pre-seed Seed Median round joined **$14M** the round, not its cheque Led 0 of 2 rounds **0%** - **Sole investor:** Never alone - **Last cheque:** Sept 2018 Rounds by stage said on their site - Series B *1* - Pre-seed said *-* - Seed said *-* Cheques by year Led Joined 2017 2018 **Pitching Juniper?** Put them on your fundraising board with this record on the card, and follow them to hear when they write a new cheque. Add to your CRM *→* ## Recently backed The latest companies Juniper put money into. [**ioTium** $14M · Sept 2018](https://millionrounds.com/company/iotium) ## Quick answers about Juniper ### What does Juniper invest in? Juniper invests most often at Series B (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Deep Tech, Biology and Biomanufacturing. ### How active is Juniper? 2 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Sept 2018. ### What has Juniper invested in recently? Its most recent investments on record: ioTium (Series B, Sept 2018) and Lightbend (Undisclosed round, Jul 2017). ### How big are Juniper's cheques? The median round it joins is $14M. ### Is Juniper investing now? No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Sept 2018. ### What kind of investor is Juniper? Juniper is a VC firm based in United States. ### Has Juniper raised a new fund? Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in Sept 2026, reporting $20M raised. ### Where does this information on Juniper come from? From 2 articles and filings naming it in a round, public registers and its own website, checked and rebuilt every night. ## Raising now? 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