Julia Elliott Brown, with 25 years of experience developing, funding, scaling, and advising high-growth start-ups across multiple sectors, is on a mission to bring her wealth of expertise to support entrepreneurial businesses in building value, with a particular passion for supporting female founders.
Operating at board level for over 16 years in both executive and non-executive capacities, she has navigated nearly every business challenge, learning from numerous mistakes along the way and emerging with a resilient spirit. She firmly believes that if an endeavor isn’t enjoyable, it’s not worth pursuing.
As a serial entrepreneur, Julia has led the charge and experienced the ups and downs of the start-up journey with ventures such as the award-winning online shoe design brand Upper Street, internet pioneer UpMyStreet.com, and coaching and advisory firm Enter The Arena. Known for taking decisive action and effecting real change, she embodies traits of vision, creativity, directness, practicality, organization, and relentless drive.
Transitioning into roles as an experienced board member, advisor, chair, and executive business coach, she has provided support to over 1,500 high-growth founders, offering candid strategic advice, serving as a sounding board for objective perspectives, and providing unwavering support. She maintains an insatiable curiosity, constructively challenges assumptions, and operates with unwavering integrity. Leveraging her extensive network, she connects opportunities and champions the founders and businesses she works with, inspiring, encouraging, and motivating them to achieve great things.
Julia Elliott Brown is a seasoned keynote speaker, regularly chairing and presenting at leading start-up and fundraising events, and speaking regularly in the media, representing the voice of the female founder and leveling the investment playing field at events including the Evening Standard’s SME Expo, London Tech Week, and Enterprise Nation.
She is a member of the Women and Enterprise All Party Parliamentary Group, contributor to the Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, a long-standing judge at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards, and mentors entrepreneurs at Natwest Entrepreneurial Spark and Virgin Start-up.
Julia is the host of the leading podcast, Fundraising Stories with Female Founders, and author of the best-selling book RAISE: The Female Founders Guide To Securing Investment, shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2023.
