Julia Rocha

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Principal at Westgate Partners | ex-McKinsey & Company

Westgate Partners
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · BRT (UTC-3)
5+ years experience
IESE
English, Portuguese
Advising
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Overview

Principal at Westgate Partners, backing climate companies. Led or co-led 35 investments, 3 of them now at Series B or later. Backed 54 founders at pre-seed and seed. Before that: McKinsey & Company and iFood.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on climate
  • Working sessions on hardware
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  • Offshore staffing offers
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Skills
climate techenergydeveloper toolshardwareventure capital
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for founders preparing a seed round: climate and developer tools

Topics
climate, hardware, venture capital
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
Two calls a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

5 years of climate. Prefer specific questions over coffee chats.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · remote OKventure capitalclimate techdeveloper tools
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Experience

  1. Principal
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Westgate Partners · 1 yr · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Led or co-led 33 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 11 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Consultant
    May 2023 - Aug 2025
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Led a cost programme that saved a client $38 million.
    • Designed the operating model for a 11 thousand-person transformation.
  3. Associate Partner
    Oct 2021 - May 2023
    iFood · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.

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Education

  1. IESE
    MBA, Business Administration
    2021 - 2023
  2. Universidad de los Andes
    Ingeniería, Engineering
    2016 - 2020

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