In this episode, we catch up with Julia Hawkins, General Partner at LocalGlobe and Latitude. Julia previously established Universal Music’s corporate venture arm and held roles at Goldman Sachs, Last.fm, and BBC Worldwide.
LocalGlobe is a London-based venture capital firm that has been seeding impactful founders since 1999, with investments in companies like Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Wise, and Zoopla. Julia has led investments in Oxford Nanopore, Vaccitech, YuLife, AccuRx, CoMind, Vira, Hertility, and Spore Bio. She is on a mission to support ambitious, thoughtful, and diverse founders in transforming healthcare—shifting from the scarcity of clinicians and appointments to ease of access through technology while enabling new and better treatments to reach patients.
Julia discusses overlooked trends in healthcare innovation, particularly drug shortages, and how her experiences navigating healthcare with her daughter have shaped her investment decisions. She shares insights into health tech, the importance of building effective teams, and the challenges in healthcare procurement. Additionally, she explores the transformative role of technology, especially AI, in healthcare and the exciting intersections between health tech, deep tech, and much more.
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Key takeaways
- Early detection and the technology that enables it are crucial to transforming healthcare.
- Drug shortages in healthcare are a significant issue.
- Procurement processes in healthcare require urgent reform.
- Successful founders excel at clearly articulating why they are building their solution, why they are the best people to do it, and why now.
- Investors should practice visualisation with founders about their future.
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