Jake Storm is a partner at Felicis Ventures who was named one of Business Insider's 2023 "Rising Stars of Venture Capital" after being promoted to partner in 2023 following his 2021 arrival at the firm, where he has backed companies like Oso, Tines, and Resourcely. He builds relationships through unconventional activities like skydiving, Ferrari racing, and boat outings to connect founders with customers and investors, while focusing his investments on modern software infrastructure and security tooling for developer teams.

• Prioritizing artificial intelligence applications in cybersecurity, particularly the challenge of safely deploying autonomous agents in enterprise environments. The central thesis is that legacy identity and access systems fail because agents act unpredictably, meaning security teams need entirely new frameworks for governance. There is also a strong belief that artificial intelligence will solve the massive security labor shortage by automating penetration testing and entry-level analysis, demonstrated by investments in companies like Terra Security which uses agents to keep pace with rapid software releases, and Runlayer for safe enterprise integration.
• Investing heavily in national defense and mission-critical systems where absolute reliability is a requirement rather than a preference. The underlying point is that educated guesses from generative models are unacceptable for military, financial, and infrastructure software, which all demand highly secure foundations. A specific example of this thesis in action is supporting defense technology startups that are building frontier labs to digitize military decision-making, aiming to replace outdated analog methods like manual math and whiteboards.
• Identifying foundational enterprise data as the primary bottleneck preventing real artificial intelligence adoption. A recurring observation from conversations with enterprise security leaders is that corporate data has become overwhelmingly complex and costly to manage. This perspective was clearly outlined during a discussion with Snowflake leadership, pointing out that organizations have zero chance of deploying successful automation if they have neglected reconciling their internal data models for years.
• Looking for founders who build durable competitive advantages through intense customer devotion and extreme execution speed rather than just relying on novel technology. The ideal profile is an entrepreneur who solves firsthand operational pain for frontline workers and proves their value by being highly responsive during an emergency. The founding team at Tines was highlighted as a perfect example of this, having built their success entirely around a culture of extreme dedication to making their users successful.
• Engaging with the technology community through physical fitness and combat sports rather than traditional corporate networking. A highly relevant relationship-building angle for a founder would be discussing physical training or martial arts, as demonstrated by organizing industry events at major security conferences where startup founders physically train alongside mixed martial arts hall of famers and professional athletes.