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Jakub Jurovych

InvestorFounder

Venture Partner at KAYA · Founder at Deepnote

San Francisco, California, United States

FoundedDeepnote · YC

About

Jakub Jurovych is founder and CEO of Deepnote, a data workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate to generate insights. With a background in human-computer interaction, he focuses on how people and AI share workspaces and coordinate tasks. Deepnote has over 500,000 data professionals using the platform and open-sourced its core in November 2025.

Founder at DeepnoteYC S19

Intro paths

YC

Jakub went through Y Combinator (Summer 2019) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Jakub can intro founders to Deepnote's investors below.

Deepnote's investors · 6

AccelPalo Alto · $1.6M – $70M checksCoatue ManagementNew York · $1M – $20M checksCredo VenturesPrague · $1M – $5M checksDig Ventures Management LimitedSt Peter PortIndex VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checksY CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2019

Experience

  1. DeepnoteFounder & CEOcurrent2019 — present
  2. Operam, Inc.CTO2016 — 2018Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
  3. Hack CambridgeCo-Founder2015 — 2016Greater Cambridge Area
  4. Unite, Inc.CTO2014 — 2016Prague, Czechia
  5. MozillaFirefox DevTools Engineer2014San Francisco Bay Area

Colleagues at KAYA

Julie Hucikova
Finance & Operations at KAYA
Juraj Masar
Investor at KAYA
Karel Zheng
General Partner at KAYA
Klaudia Kristofova
Finance & Operations at KAYA
Martin Rajcan
General Partner at KAYA
Martin Schmid
Investor at KAYA
Michal Valko
Investor at KAYA
Pavel Mucha
General Partner at KAYA

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jakub Jurovych?
Jakub Jurovych is founder and CEO of Deepnote, a data workspace where humans and AI agents collaborate to generate insights. With a background in human-computer interaction, he focuses on how people and AI share workspaces and coordinate tasks. Deepnote has over 500,000 data professionals using the platform and open-sourced its core in November 2025.
Where does Jakub Jurovych work?
Jakub Jurovych is Founder of Deepnote and Venture Partner at KAYA.
What companies did Jakub Jurovych found?
Jakub Jurovych founded Deepnote.
Where did Jakub Jurovych go to school?
Jakub Jurovych studied at University of Cambridge (MPhil in Advanced Computer Science); Stanford University Graduate School of Business (dy/dx); Masarykova univerzita (Bachelor's degree, Computer Science).

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University of Cambridge mafia256

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KAYA mafia4

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Masarykova univerzita mafia3

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Shared employers

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