Patrick Yang

Patrick Yang is the Founding General Partner of Amity Ventures, a San Francisco-based early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2016 with CJ Reim after the two crossed paths at Highland Capital Partners. Betting on obsessive, high-agency founders at Seed and Series A, Yang has helped build a portfolio with a 20% unicorn hit rate - 7 of 35 companies reached $1B+ valuations, including CaptivateIQ, Evisort (acquired by Workday), Talkdesk, and Socure. A Bay Area native who studied business at UC Berkeley, he cut his teeth at Morgan Stanley's Menlo Park tech investment banking group before moving to Highland, where he spotted and backed nuTonomy - the autonomous vehicle startup Delphi snapped up for $450 million.