Julia Kim

Principal at Hawthorn Partners · Developer infrastructure · developer tools, venture capital

Hawthorn Partners

Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)

6+ years experience

McMaster University

English, Arabic

Investing

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Overview

6 years around startups; now investing in developer infrastructure. Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with developer tools and open source.

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open sourcedeveloper toolsventure capital

InvestingLooking to invest

closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into Series A developer infrastructure in India

Cheque size: $50k
Stages: Pre-seed, Seed
Sectors: Developer infrastructure, AI applications
Geographies: LatAm
Lead or follow: Co-lead
Decision time: One meeting and a partner call
How I help: Hiring the first ten people

Typically lead or co-lead. Decisions within 2 weeks.

Toronto, ONdeveloper toolsventure capitalopen source

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Experience

Principal
Sep 2025 - Present
Hawthorn Partners · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Backed 24 founders at pre-seed and seed.
- Led or co-led 35 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
- Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.
Senior Financial Analyst
Jun 2024 - Sep 2025
Rogers · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Closed the books in 3 days, down from 17.
Controller
Dec 2022 - Apr 2024
Wealthsimple · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Closed the books in 4 days, down from 16.
- Ran diligence on 4 acquisitions.
FP&A Manager
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
Shopify · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
- Took forecast accuracy to within 1% for 9 straight quarters.
- Saved $5 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.

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Education

McMaster University
BEng, Engineering
2015 - 2019

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