# Julia Hawkins

> Julia Hawkins is a seed investor at LocalGlobe (London) backing Health Care and Hardware. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Apr 2026
- Lead investor: 57%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-hawkins-4795084
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/svennj
- Website: https://x.com/svennj

Julia Hawkins is a Partner at LocalGlobe. Previously, Julia worked at Goldman Sachs, Last.fm, BBC Worldwide and most recently Universal Music where she set up their Corporate Venture arm and led investments in ROLI and Sofar Sounds among others. Julia enjoys working with mission driven founders and has a keen interest in consumer, entertainment,media and health tech from wellness to genomics. She holds a 1st from LSE, is a Kauffman Fellow and Board Trustee of Shwachman Diamond Syndrome UK, a charity dedicated to finding a cure for SDS, a rare genetic disease.https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliahawkins01/

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Health Care | 5 | 24% |
| Hardware | 3 | 14% |
| Wellness | 3 | 14% |
| Women's | 2 | 10% |
| Software | 2 | 10% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 9 | 43% |
| Series A | 6 | 29% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 14% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 10 | 48% |
| Germany | 2 | 10% |
| France | 1 | 5% |
| Belgium | 1 | 5% |
| Ireland | 1 | 5% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| BioOrbit | BioOrbit is a space manufacturing firm that develops hardware for large-scale protein drug crystallization. | $13.2M | Seed | Apr 30, 2026 |  |
| Anzen Industries | Anzen Industries focuses on biotech innovation, engineering molecular resilience by stabilizing enzymes for industrial reactions. | $2.3M | Pre-Seed | Jan 19, 2026 |  |
| Human Health | Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections. | $5.6M | Seed | Oct 30, 2025 |  |
| CoMind | CoMind is creating noninvasive neural technological hardware and software to augment the human brain and connect advanced artificial intelligence to the neocortex to help humans compete with the rapid advancement of AI. The neocortex is the area of the brain which is responsible for brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generationof motor commands, spatial reasoning, and language and focused on augmenting this area with artificial intelligence using advanced hardware and cutting-edge software. Their non-invasive brain-computer interfaces allow communication with the brain. CoMind’s mission is to create the next computing interface, whilst simultaneously improving our understanding of the human brain and neurological disorders. | $60M | Series A | Oct 20, 2025 |  |
| Nila Elder Care | Nila Elder Care provides care for elderly parents in the comfort of their own home. | $2.4M | Pre-Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| Spore.Bio | Spore Biotechnologies is a manufacturing company that develops innovative technological tools to help factories manufacture safe products.Spore Biotechnologies are developing new weapons to fight climate change, globalization, new consuming habits, bacterial resistance, and microbiological scandals.Founded by Amine Raji and Maxime Mistretta in2022 and is located in Paris, France. | $23M | Series A | Feb 20, 2025 |  |
| Spore.Bio | Spore Biotechnologies is a manufacturing company that develops innovative technological tools to help factories manufacture safe products.Spore Biotechnologies are developing new weapons to fight climate change, globalization, new consuming habits, bacterial resistance, and microbiological scandals.Founded by Amine Raji and Maxime Mistretta in2022 and is located in Paris, France. | $8.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 12, 2023 |  |
| Apheris | apheris AI was founded by Robin Rohm and Michael Höh with a shared dream to empower companies to run analytics on decentralized datasets. Michael developed software infrastructure for distributed data during his PhD at Forschungszentrum Julich and his time at BCG. Robin has a background in algebraic theories for data linkage and data privacy andhas experienced the complexity of centralizing sensitive personal healthcare data firsthand in one of his previous start-ups. Through their work, they encountered barriers that limit progress within data driven industries: data is often stored in silos and most companies work in closed data ecosystems. Therefore, Apheris strives to connect the world’s data to extract better insights. | $8.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Noala | Noala is a listen to community so that together its creating the simplest and most effective platform for speech and language therapists. | $3.9M | Seed | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| CYCLE | GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile. | $10.5M | Seed | May 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Balderton Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/balderton-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [FirstMark](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firstmark-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Amino Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amino-collective) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [another.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/another-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About LocalGlobe

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

LocalGlobe is a UK-based venture capital firm that focuses on seed and impact investments. Seeding ambitious UK founders since 1999 inc Citymapper, Improbable, Lovefilm, Moo, Tweetdeck, Transferwise, and Zoopla.

5 contacts available at LocalGlobe.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Julia Hawkins | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/julia-hawkins-3 |
| Ziv Reichert | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ziv-reichert |
| Ash Arora | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ash-arora-faa8 |
| Emma Phillips | Investment Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/emma-phillips |
| Eric Salama | Senior Adviser | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-salama |

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## FAQ

### What does Julia Hawkins invest in?

Julia Hawkins invests primarily in Health Care, Hardware and Wellness startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Julia Hawkins last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Julia Hawkins closed in Apr 2026. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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