Julia Moore
Managing Partner at Breakout Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2021 - Current
Breakout Ventures is the home for creative bioscience entrepreneurs. We invest in early stage companies harnessing the power of cells to build solutions in human health and sustainability. Our team has spent the last decade supporting science-driven companies moving with urgency. We partner with bold founders throughout the entire life cycle, from seed to scale.
Partner
2016 - 2020
Breakout Ventures is an early stage fund that backs bold scientist entrepreneurs.
Board Observer/Investor
2023
Board Member / Investor
2022
Board Observer / Investor
2022
EnPlusOne Biosciences provides innovative solutions for emerging RNA therapeutics.
Raised $12,000,000.00 from Coatue, Breakout Ventures and Northpond Ventures.
Board Observer / Investor
2021
Board Member / Investor
2019
Checkerspot designs performance materials at a molecular level by optimizing microbes to biomanufacture structural oils produced in nature.
Raised $109,000,000.00 from ArrowMark Partners and Cox Enterprises.
Board Member / Investor
2018
Portfolio Director, Breakout Labs
2015 - 2019
We built Breakout Labs in 2011 with the goal of funding deep science companies at a stage and time when we believed philanthropic capital was necessary to support the achievement of technical milestones and to coalesce a start-up ecosystem in this space. We funded 50 amazing founding teams creating an incredible community of scientists, entrepreneurs and investors committed to using science as their superpower to make science fiction a reality. Our portfolio has raised over $1B in follow-on funding, grown leather without the cow, developed therapeutics to alter the course of Alzheimer’s, transformed carbon dioxide emissions into useful products, and so much more.
We support science, technology, and long-term thinking about the future.
Kauffman Fellow (Class 17)
2012 - 2014
One of thirty global venture capitalists and innovators for two-year fellowship. Selected for Leadership Award. Research project focus - funding high-value, substantive innovation.
Associate Director
2011 - 2014
Founding team of $200M-funded Institute focused on scaling innovative, global companies. Led the strategy and execution of Stanford’s first innovation center. In collaboration with Stanford Management Company, convened leaders of top endowments, foundations and family offices to advance the allocation of capital to new markets. Analysis of the global private investment landscape led to a new class at Stanford, "Frontier Markets Private Equity: Creating an Investable Asset Class.”
Education
B.S.
2000 - 2004