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.
Focus
- Digital health & AI
- Impact ventures & emerging markets
- Frontier tech & venture building
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- Regulated health markets and clinical evidence
- Building operations in low-infrastructure markets
- Scaling teams and P&L
- Getting to first capital and revenue
- Impact measurement and verification
Track record
- Founder
- Hyfe, Proof of Impact, Triggerise
- Venture & invention
- Advisor to Intellectual Ventures
- Field leadership
- Country operations for PSI in Mozambique and Swaziland, up to 400 staff; IOM operations in Somalia; humanitarian missions across Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Balkans
Bio
Julian Circo has spent his career at the intersection of social impact, entrepreneurship and technology.
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He started on the front lines of aid delivery, on humanitarian missions in places like East Timor, Cambodia and the DRC, then started up operations for a UN agency in Somalia and turned around large scale country operations for a global public health organization in Swaziland and Mozambique.
He founded and built to scale Triggerise, a global social enterprise connecting people in underserved markets with health products and services, and co-founded Proof of Impact, a platform for verifying and financing impact.
He also advised Intellectual Ventures, the Seattle-based IP and venture capital firm.
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.
A human rights lawyer by training, he is based in Vienna.
Languages
English, German, Romanian, Portuguese