Julian Circo
Serial founder and operator. I mentor early-stage founders in health, impact and frontier technology, from idea to first capital and first revenue.
BioBio
Julian Circo has spent his career at the intersection of social impact, entrepreneurship and technology.
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In 2020 he co-founded Hyfe, an AI health tech company that turns cough into a digital biomarker, and has since taken it to scale. Hyfe is the global market leader in cough monitoring and has been used in 52+ clinical trials, including Phase 2 and 3 pharma trials.
Among others, he co-founded Proof of Impact, a platform for verifying and financing impact at scale, and Triggerise, a global social enterprise connecting people in underserved markets with health products and services. He has advised Intellectual Ventures, the Seattle-based IP and venture capital firm, and remains actively involved with several impact-minded ventures, either as co-founder, adviser, investor or board member.
In previous lives, he led unique, action-packed operations in some of the world’s most challenging environments. These included dozens of humanitarian missions as well as building & running country operations for global organizations in places such as Somalia or Mozambique.
A human rights lawyer by training, he is based in Vienna.
Focus
Digital health & AI
- Regulated health markets and clinical evidence
Impact ventures & emerging markets
- Building operations in low-infrastructure markets
- Impact measurement and verification
Frontier tech & venture building
- Scaling teams and P&L
- Getting to first capital and revenue
julian@circo.io · linkedin.com/in/icirco