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Julia de Petra

Investor

Talent at Audacious

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Bay Area native who studied psychology at Wake Forest University and began her career in executive search, placing senior engineering and product leaders at venture-backed and growth-stage tech companies. At Audacious she works on talent for early-stage venture, helping portfolio companies build technical teams and durable cultures.

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Experience

  1. Audacious VenturesTalentcurrent2026 — present
  2. True SearchSenior Associate2025 — 2026
  3. True SearchAssociate2023 — 2025San Francisco Bay Area
  4. True SearchAnalyst2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  5. Fat Gladiator Investment ClubResearch Intern2021London, England, United Kingdom
  6. Palisades TahoeSki Coach and Group Leader2016 — 2021Truckee, California, United States
  7. Ramen ShopCulinary Intern2019Oakland, CA
  8. Nike Tennis CampsTennis Coach2017 — 2018Tahoe City, California, United States
  9. EventbriteAssistant to Manager2018San Francisco, California, United States

Education

  1. Wake Forest University
  2. Head-Royce SchoolHigh School Diploma

Skills & more

Data AnalysisResearchStrategyProblem SolvingCommunication

From Julia's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended Wake Forest University56

Andrew McGuirkVenture Fellow at Moneta VenturesEliza CushmanPartner at Congruent VenturesBrett BrohlManaging Partner at Bread And Butter Ventures, LlcMariusz AdamskiGeneral Partner at Ff Venture CapitalGregory BillingtonResearch at Transform Capital ManagementMax Von PoelnitzPartner at Foothill Ventures

+ 50 more

Also attended Head-Royce School3

Ryan IsonoDeal Partner at Felicis VenturesIsabel WrubelInvestor at HeadlineRichard ArneyBoard of Directors Chair of Compensation Committee at Accial Capital

Shared employers

Also worked at True Search14

Ryan HouderAdvisor at Rocana VenturesMaeve JudayAssociate at YL VenturesLucy BischofTalent Manager at Mainsail PartnersEd BaklorExecutive leader in guest experience & hospitality at XRCSean CloneyHead of Talent at HeadlineKateri AllenRecruiter at Teamworthy Ventures

+ 8 more

Also worked at Palisades Tahoe2

Tripp JonesInvestor at Uncork CapitalMike KreadenPartner at FirsthandVC

Also worked at Eventbrite20

Roelof BothaAdvisor & former Steward at Sequoia Capital; SpaceX board memberNaomi Pilosof IonitaBoard Partner at Menlo VenturesShakhina PulatovaInvestor at Storm VenturesPayal Agrawal DivakaranPartner at .406 VenturesMichel GlezerDirector at Qualcomm VenturesSkylar DorosinPrincipal at NVP Capital

+ 14 more

Colleagues at Audacious

Caitlin Byrnes
Talent at Audacious
Catherine McClure
Talent at Audacious
Francesca Gnuva
Investor at Audacious
Jaime Felix
CFO at Audacious
Jatin Garg
AI Lead at Audacious
Max Zang
Investor at Audacious
Muzzammil (MZ) Zaveri
Partner at Audacious Ventures backing ambitious early-stage founders
Nakul Mandan
Founder & Partner at Audacious