Julia Austin – Startup Investor Profile

Julia Austin is an angel investor who invests in promising companies and serves on boards, offering leadership coaching and guidance. She has a background in technical leadership, teaching product management at Harvard Business School, and advising and investing in early-stage companies. Julia has been involved with organizations like DigitalOcean, LovePop, Hydrolix, and Help Scout. She focuses on engineering, process, staffing, and functional operations, with a history of successful leadership roles at VMware and Akamai.

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Country: Netherlands

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Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Crunchbase shows a May 31, 2021 investment in HumanFirst by Julia Austin. The most recent known investment date is May 31, 2021 which is more than 48 months before the reference date, placing it beyond 12 months. However, other sources (LinkedIn posts in 2025) show activity but not investments. Given the last verifiable investment is May 31, 2021, that is older than 12 months, so the correct tag is ‘low-active’.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.