Stephan Cizmar is a serial entrepreneur-turned-investor who scaled B2B software from zero to IPO at Yext (growing from ~$40M to ~$330M ARR through NYSE listing) and currently serves as both a full-time GP at Lorimer Ventures and Chief Strategy Officer at his own company Lang.ai. He focuses on thesis-driven investing in Industry 4.0 and industrial software markets, emphasizing empathy as his core decision-making framework and building an operator-led support network that treats founders as partners rather than portfolio companies. Stephan Cizmar is a serial entrepreneur-turned-investor who scaled B2B software from zero to IPO at Yext (growing from ~$40M to ~$330M ARR through NYSE listing) and currently serves as both a full-time GP at Lorimer Ventures and Chief Strategy Officer at his own company Lang.ai. He focuses on thesis-driven investing in Industry 4.0 and industrial software markets, emphasizing empathy as his core decision-making framework and building an operator-led support network that treats founders as partners rather than portfolio companies.