Justin Nam

Co-Founder & General Partner, Story Capital

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2026
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Mar 2026
Real world. Real intelligence.
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Jan 2026
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
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Sep 2025
The AI platform for human intelligence that will match 1 billion people with their dream role.
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Aug 2025
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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Aug 2024
Ramp is an all-in-one financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and more, Ramp empowers finance teams to do their best work. More than 70,000 companies, from family-owned farms to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp since its founding in 2019. Investors include Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp has been named to Fast Companys Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIns Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazines 100 Most Influential Companies. Visit our website for a full list of US state licenses & disclosures: https://ramp.com/legal/state-disclosures
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Jan 2022
MinIO is the only pure-play exascale object store for AI data. MinIO is used by more than half of the Fortune 500 to achieve performance at scale at a fraction of the cost compared to the public cloud providers. MinIO AIStor caters to enterprise on-premises environments, delivering unmatched performance, scale, and economics for data-intensive workloads such as analytics, data lakehouses, and AI, empowering organizations to fully capitalize on existing AI investments and address emerging infrastructure challenges while delivering continuous business value. Founded in November 2014 by industry visionaries AB Periasamy and Garima Kapoor, MinIO is the worlds fastest-growing exascale object store for AI data.
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Jan 2022
Your financial future shouldnt depend on your race, background, or zip code. Yet 45 million Americans remain "credit invisible," while countless others face denials, evictions, and predatory interest rates regularly. Esusu is changing that. As a financial technology and data platform, were revolutionizing financial health, identity services, and inclusive decision-making for individuals and businesses alike. Our impact speaks volumes: $50 billion in credit activity facilitated 5 million+ rental units in our network Trusted partnerships with leading real estate companies, government entities, fintechs, banks, and employers Through our enterprise services, embedded products, and consumer offerings, were creating a financial system that works for everyone—right when fintech innovation matters most. Join us in building a future where financial systems are inclusive by design, access is standard, and opportunity reaches everyone. Unlock Tomorrow with Esusu.
Angel Investor
Jan 2022
MarqVision’s mission is to protect and build a future shaped by original ideas, innovations, and creativity. As a leading online brand protection solution, we help global brands identify and remove counterfeits from over 1,500 platforms and thousands of rogue websites in over 118 countries. In a time when counterfeiting poses an increasingly serious challenge, we believe that democratizing legal expertise and access to the latest in generative AI technology is critical for continuing to support the inventors, developers, and artists of the world who work tirelessly to deliver safe, high-quality products. MarqVision’s technology powers everything from detection, monitoring, and even enforcement to protect brands at scale. Founded in 2020 by Harvard Law graduates, MarqVision is proudly backed by Altos Ventures, DST Global Partners, Softbank, Atinum Investments and Y Combinator. Our commitment to innovation has also been recognized with a prestigious 2022 Innovation Award from LVMH Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH), and we are honored to be part of the LVMH accelerator program, La Maison des Startups, at the Station F incubator. As we bring forth the next evolution of brand protection, we invite businesses everywhere to join us in safeguarding the creativity that drives our world. Our comprehensive suite of solutions helps creators and innovators thrive in the digital era, covering IP registration, management, brand protection, and content protection. Through our AI technology and expert legal team, we enable seamless IP creation, management, protection, and monetization. Let us pave the way for you to achieve the growth you’ve already earned.
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May 2021
Formlabs builds the tools that make it possible for anyone to bring their ideas to life. Headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts with offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, and Hungary, Formlabs is the professional 3D printer of choice for engineers, designers, manufacturers, healthcare providers, and decision makers around the globe. Formlabs products include the Form Series SLA printers, Fuse Series SLS printers, Form Wash and Form Cure post-processing solutions.
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May 2018
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles. Since our 2013 founding in San Francisco, we have hired over 1,600 talented individuals and opened additional offices in greater Seattle, Pasadena, Phoenix and Munich. We have raised $10B from General Motors, Honda, Microsoft, SoftBank, T. Rowe Price, Walmart and others. Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale, building all-electric, zero-emission, self-driving vehicles that will help save lives, reimagine cities, reduce carbon pollution, redefine time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for individuals who live in dense urban settings. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving vehicles, join us. getcruise.com/careers.
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Sep 2017
Slack is on a mission to make peoples working lives simpler, more pleasant and more productive. It is the productivity platform for customer companies that improves performance by empowering everyone with no-code automation, making search and knowledge sharing seamless, and keeping teams connected and engaged as they move work forward together. As part of Salesforce, Slack is deeply integrated into the Salesforce Customer 360, supercharging productivity across sales, service and marketing teams. To learn more and get started with Slack for free, visit slack.com or connect with us @SlackHQ. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Slack’s values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer and a pleasant and supportive place to work. Come do the best work of your life here at Slack.
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Sep 2017
Guardant Health is a leading precision medicine company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, were transforming patient care by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360® Liquid, Guardant360® CDx, Guardant360® Tissue, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantINFINITY™ tests for advanced-stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal® for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the FDA-approved Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening. Important Note for Job Applicants: Guardant Health is aware of recruiting scams where unauthorized individuals use the companys name in fraudulent emails, job postings, and social media messages. Please note that Guardant Health will never ask for money or credit card information during the job application process, nor does the company communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or personal email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail.
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Sep 2017
Blinkit (A Zomato Company) is a grocery and e-commerce platform. We pioneered the instant delivery model in India with over 10 million Indians shopping on Blinkit, for everything from grocery staples and vegetables to emergency supplies and electronics, and much more. If our mission interests you, send your CV to future@blinkit.com
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Sep 2017
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 3.5 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
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Mar 2026
Real world. Real intelligence.
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Feb 2026
Plaid is a data network that powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. Plaid works with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, and Betterment, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers more than 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey.
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Jan 2026
Higgsfield is the ultimate production studio for creators by creators. 40% of our team are filmmakers, producers, and creatives who shape our product roadmap, working side by side with our ML engineers in a relentless creative feedback loop. Were on a mission to give everyone with a vision the tools of a world-class studio. Higgsfield is where your ideas become cinema.
2025
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Sep 2025
The AI platform for human intelligence that will match 1 billion people with their dream role.
Investor
Aug 2025
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
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