Jake Storm is a General Partner at Felicis, the early-stage venture firm behind companies like Shopify, Fitbit, and Canva. He focuses on AI, DevTools, cybersecurity, and deeptech — investing from pre-seed through Series B — and brought to Felicis a track record from IVP where he backed Lyra Health, Whoop, and CircleCI. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Venture Capital (2023), Storm grew up across multiple U.S. regions and Brazil, giving him a cross-cultural perspective he credits as foundational to how he evaluates founders and markets.
James Detweiler is a General Partner at Felicis, the venture firm behind investments in Shopify, Fitbit, and Twitch. Promoted to General Partner in February 2026, he has sourced, led, or co-led 25+ investments across AI, robotics, vertical software, and defense - including Skild AI (now valued at $14B), RunwayML, and Mercor. A summa cum laude Dartmouth grad in Physics and Mathematical Finance, he honed his AI investment lens at Zetta (the first AI-focused venture fund) and SVB Capital before joining Felicis. He founded the Felicis Fellows program to bridge top AI researchers and entrepreneurship, and coined the investment thesis 'The Great Splintering' - the idea that as thinking becomes cheap, value shifts to trust, judgment, and presence. He grew up in Santa Clara as the youngest of five children of an actress and a painter.
Ryan Thompson is General Counsel and Partner at Felicis, a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm that has backed over 50 unicorns and raised a $900M Fund X in 2025. A lawyer-turned-operator-turned-investor, Ryan brings nearly two decades of legal and operational muscle to one of Silicon Valley's most decorated early-stage firms. Before Felicis, he served as COO and General Counsel at Unusual Ventures and as General Counsel and VP of HR at Shape Security — which sold to F5 Networks for over $1 billion. He spent nine years as a corporate attorney at Goodwin Procter and DLA Piper, working on VC financings, M&A, and IPOs before crossing the table to the operator side.
Viviana Faga is a General Partner at Felicis, the early-stage venture firm behind breakout companies like Shopify, Fitbit, and Canva. A first-generation Mexican-American who grew up dismantling appliances to understand how things work, she spent 20+ years building category-defining brands at Salesforce, Yammer (acquired by Microsoft for $1.2B), Zenefits, and Platfora before making the leap into investing. At Felicis she leads investments from seed to Series B across AI infrastructure, vertical SaaS, and enterprise software - bringing an unusually hands-on operational lens to portfolio companies like Runway, Supabase, and Exowatt.
Astasia Myers is a General Partner at Felicis, a 10x Forbes Midas list honoree, and 4x New York Times Top 20 VC who invests in early-stage AI, infrastructure, and developer tools companies. She previously founded Quiet Capital's enterprise practice, backing Modal, Chroma, and Langchain, and led investments in unicorns like LaunchDarkly at Redpoint Ventures. With dual degrees from Stanford and a master's from Cambridge, she's partnered with 10 unicorns and achieved 9 IPOs, bringing over a decade of enterprise software experience from startups, equity research at Baird, and Cisco's corporate development team.