Juliana Garaizar

Fund(s): Rising Tide Fund, Consumer Fund, Rising America
Location: Houston

Juliana is a Board Member of the Angel Capital Association, a Lead Investor of the Portfolia Rising America Fund, Consumer Fund and Rising Tide Fund and the Launch Director for Greentown Labs Houston. Juliana is the President of the Business Angel Minority Association and an Advisory Board Member of the Cougar Venture Fund and the Houston Diversity Fund. Julia was the Director of the Texas Medical Center Venture Fund and the Managing Director of the Houston Angel Network.

.Juliana is also a Kauffman Fellow in Class 20, a prestigious two-year, Silicon Valley-based leadership program for venture capitalists. More than    470    Kauffman    Fellows    have    collectively deployed nearly $200B  in  capital  and  created  more  than 750,000  jobs  worldwide.

Juliana was the Manager of the Sophia Business Angels network in the French Riviera (EBAN’s Best European Angel Network in 2010) and of Antipolis Innovation Campus, as well as Project Manager of several International Projects funded by the European Commission. Previously, Juliana worked for 5 years in Singapore: first as an International Trade Consultant for the Trade Commission of Spain in a broad range of industry sectors and then as a Project Manager for the Asia Technology Office of Citigroup, leading projects at international level.Juliana obtained an MBA at the London Business School, specializing in Entrepreneurship.. She is President of one of Sophia Business Angels sidecar funds SBA ISF Holding and Expert Committee Member of Success Europe (EBAN’s Best European Early Stage Fund 2010), a member of the UT Horizons Fund External Advisory Committee as well as an International Founding Member of Istanbul’s Galata Business Angels. Juliana has been recently honored with the Strathmore’s Who is Who Professional of the Year 2015 award in Financial Consulting and Investments.