# Jakub Jurovych

> Jakub Jurovych is the Slovak engineer, founder, and CEO behind Deepnote, a San Francisco data workspace built around collaborative computational notebooks. His path runs from making websites as a teenager and studying informatics at Masaryk University to working on Firefox DevTools, earning an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at Cambridge, serving as CTO of Hollywood analytics company Operam, and founding Deepnote in 2019. After Y Combinator, a $3.8 million seed round, a $20 million Series A, and the acquisition of Hyperquery, Jurovych is now positioning notebooks as shared, governed workspaces for people and AI agents.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Deepnote
- **Organizations:** Deepnote, Operam, Mozilla, University of Cambridge, Masaryk University, Y Combinator, Hack Cambridge, Unite, Represent
- **Nationality:** Slovak
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Applied Informatics, Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics, MPhil in Advanced Computer Science, focused on machine learning and human-computer interaction, University of Cambridge
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Deepnote, a Y Combinator S19 company., Raised a publicly announced $3.8 million seed round and $20 million Series A for Deepnote., Led Deepnote's 2024 acquisition of Hyperquery.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2011** — Built websites from a young age and said he was earning money from programming by about age 17.
- **2011-2014** — Studied Applied Informatics at Masaryk University and graduated among the top 1% of his program by grade average.
- **2014** — Worked on Firefox DevTools at Mozilla after reaching out with a short email, a GitHub link, and a screenshot.
- **2014-2016** — Worked as CTO of Unite and co-founded Hack Cambridge while continuing his studies and startup work.
- **2015-2016** — Completed an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, focusing on machine learning and human-computer interaction.
- **2016-2018** — Served as CTO of Operam, applying machine learning and attribution modeling to marketing for Hollywood studios.
- **2018** — Named to Forbes Slovakia's 30 Under 30 list.
- **2019** — Founded Deepnote and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2019 batch.
- **2020** — Brought Deepnote out of stealth and announced a $3.8 million seed round from Y Combinator, Index Ventures, and Accel.
- **2022** — Announced Deepnote's $20 million Series A and moved the product out of beta.
- **2024** — Led Deepnote's acquisition of data analytics competitor Hyperquery.
- **2025** — Open-sourced Deepnote and introduced the human-readable .deepnote notebook format.
- **2026** — Published Deepnote's Codex integration and introduced Deepnote Agent Workspace for governed, reusable skills, agents, and apps.

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Deepnote, a Y Combinator S19 company.
- Raised a publicly announced $3.8 million seed round and $20 million Series A for Deepnote.
- Led Deepnote's 2024 acquisition of Hyperquery.
- Open-sourced Deepnote and introduced the .deepnote format in 2025.
- Named to Forbes Slovakia's 30 Under 30 list in 2018.
- Graduated in the top 1% of his Masaryk University program by grade average.
- Worked on Firefox DevTools at Mozilla.
- Served as CTO of Operam, whose analytics work supported marketing for major Hollywood films.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Introduced Deepnote Agent Workspace, a shared environment for turning trusted analyses into reusable skills, agents, and apps.
- **2026-06** — Announced a native Deepnote connection for the Codex data analytics plugin through MCP.
- **2026-05** — Published work on notebooks as context layers and as atomic units for reinforcement-learning agent workflows.
- **2026-02** — Discussed Deepnote's adoption of AI and its use by hundreds of thousands of customers in an MIT Sloan Management Review Czech interview.
- **2025-11** — Open-sourced Deepnote and published the rationale for a new, human-readable .deepnote notebook format.

## Links

- Website: https://deepnote.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakubjurovych
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/deepnoteHQ
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/deepnoteHQ

---

Profile page: https://yespress.io/jakub-jurovych
Published by YesPress — https://yespress.io
Last updated: 2026-08-18