Justine Juillard

About

- VC Investment Partner at Impact First Ventures
- Former Director of Sourcing and Projects at Berkeley Venture Capital, sourcing startups for a $5M Angel Fund
- Current President of Girls Into VC
- Interned at a MedTech startup developing universally transplantable organoids
- Neuroscience Major at UC Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

- Early-Stage Investments (Pre-Seed and Seed)
- Fundraising Strategy
- Pitch and Pitch Deck Optimization
- Biotech, HealthTech, and MedTech Ventures
Additional expertise upon request

Testimonials from Previous Customers

“Justine has a way of getting to the heart of your mission and making it known to others, expertly helping you shape your brand. She helped me figure out how to phrase my technology so it was easy to understand, while also designing graphics that showed much more clearly how the technology worked. She [helped us] change our business model from a licensing model to B2B2C, knowing that licensing right off the bat was an infeasible and unrealistic strategy that would hurt us in the long run. We won the Big Ideas Grand Prize [thanks to] her consultation. Justine is so good at finding out potential weaknesses; I was able to anticipate every question, from data privacy, to regulation, to funding strategy, to business model, citing sources, other companies in the space, etc. Justine does her research. She is an immensely talented biotech investor who is direct and honest, creative and astute, and a true force. I would absolutely recommend Justine’s services to other startups/entrepreneurs.”
- Ashmita Kumar, Code Blue AI (Founder & CEO)

“Working with Justine exceeded my expectations in every single way! Justine helped to create a beautiful poster for the Big Ideas Contest of which we were a 2024 winner. Justine can intertwine color, logic, and simplicity into a deck that is stunning visually without inundating the viewer with too much info. The complexity of the project often had me sending relatively verbose and not super straightforward emails [but] she went beyond herself to the moon to develop a brand new pitch deck focused on the blockchain aspects of our projects from scratch. We were trying to figure out the competitive analysis slide and [Justine] quickly reduced the complexity to a Venn diagram and completely nailed the slide - guaranteed we wouldn’t have got to such a clean solution without her. I also liked her direct yet kind worded feedback when our slides or topics didn't make sense. She really cares, responds super fast, truly goes beyond herself to deliver high quality projects. Hands down she is the #1 best person I've ever worked with for pitch decks. I'm honestly taken aback at how great of a job she did to take complex topics and simplify the message and architecture in such a beautiful way. ”
- Paul Bryzek, Carbon Sustain (Founder & CEO)

Availability

Justine is currently available for new consultations.