Episode 96: Julia Hawkins: General Partner at LocalGlobe & Latitude - Transforming Healthcare with Technology

EU-Startups Podcast

In this episode, we catch up with Julia Hawkins. Julia is General Partner at LocalGlobe and Latitude, having previously set up Universal Music’s corporate venture arm, as well as being stationed at Goldman Sachs, Last.fm, and BBC Worldwide. LocalGlobe is a London-based venture capital firm that seeded impactful founders since 1999 at places like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Wise and Zoopla. Investments that Julia has led include Oxford Nanopore, Vaccitech, YuLife, AccuRx, CoMind, Vira, Hertility and Spore Bio. Julia is on a mission to back ambitious, thoughtful and diverse founders to transform healthcare from scarcity of clinicians and appointments to ease of access through technology and to enable new and better treatments to reach patients. Julia talks about the overlooked trends in healthcare innovation, particularly drug shortages, and how personal experiences navigating healthcare with her daughter shaped her investment decisions. Julia shares insights on heath tech, the importance of building effective teams, and the challenges in healthcare procurement. She also explores the role of technology, especially AI, in transforming healthcare and the exciting intersections of health tech and deep tech. Takeaways 1.Early detection and building technology that enables it is crucial in transforming healthcare. 2.Drug shortages in healthcare are a significant issue. 3.Procurement processes in healthcare need urgent reform. 4.Successful founders excel at clearly articulating why they're building it, why they're the best people to do it, and why now. 5.Investors should practice visualization with founders about their future. EU-Startups Podcast is brought to you by Vanta. Compliance doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact, with Vanta it can be super simple. Trusted by over 7,000 companies, Vanta automates the pricey, time-consuming process of prepping for ISO 27001,SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and more. Learn more here: http://vanta.com/eustartups