Narrative led branding, design and activation for deep tech.
Distilled Intelligence
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You are looking for backing.
Funders, pilot partners, early employees.
are all taking a leap of faith betting on you.
Make their bet a no brainer.
The challenges you and your backers are facing
The challenges you and your backers are facing
The signal dissipates
You explain the work and watch the room go blank. Faces that should light up stay flat. You hear "interesting, send more info" instead of "yes, what's next." The smartest details land like noise, and the burden of translation falls back on you every time.
Only the founder can sell the story
Even when someone's bought in, the real test is what happens when you're not in the room. What does your investor tell their LPs? What does your champion repeat to their boss? Without language they can carry credibly, your story stops at the first person who heard it.
Your brand carries your backers' judgment
Once someone bets on you, your brand is theirs to defend. Your investor pitches you to their LPs. Your pilot partner explains you to their board. Your champion stakes their reputation on you in every meeting you're not in. A weak brand doesn't just hurt you, it makes the people who backed you look like they made a weak call.
We make that bet a no brainer.
Our system for signal processing
A system for signal processing
Rooted in engineering
Koru is founded by trained electrical engineer and practicing brand designer, Tamir Yankevich.
Creative decisions are informed by the full scope of your technical product.
Modeled after
Story
While you’re explaining your idea, your customers are signing your competitor's pilot proposal. Not because their product is better, but because they see themselves in their story more clearly.
Brand
Your brand is the system that transforms raw story into market reception. We build it to be documented, maintainable, and AI ready, so it scales with your team and stays coherent as the product evolves. Less a deliverable, more an operating layer.
Read about our Design Philosophy.
Activation
Where the system meets the world. The Koru Collective assembles to broadcast your processed signal across digital, ecom, physical, and built environment applications. On brand, attributable, ready for growth.
See our full Scope of Capabilities.
Featured Case Studies
Big River Builders
"Beautiful work efficiently done. We will continue to work with Tamir and Koru Studio as we expand the amazing website that he supported us in creating."
Ceramic Network
Distilled Intelligence
“We used Koru Studio this year for our big event called Distilled Intelligence and when we came to Tamir, we basically had no brand identity. He walked us through his Orchestration package which first started with developing a brand identity, then going through web design, then web implementation, and we have landed with some really awesome products from that process.”
Marek Health
"Tamir started as a project-based contractor and quickly became a core part of our team on a monthly retainer. He integrated seamlessly, picked up our brand language immediately, and consistently pushed our product toward a more elevated standard. Reliable and easy to work with."
MaxVision
Koru has helped teams mobilize $50M+ in backing
The Koru Collective
Vetted contributors assembled around each deep tech engagement, bringing exactly what the project requires. Members represent expertise in narrative, design, engineering, and the relationships that unlock commercial viability.
Hailey Kragelj
Head of Strategic Narrative
Viviana Rames
Deep Tech GTM Consultant
Viviana Rames helps climate and deep tech founders turn complex ideas into stories people can understand, trust, and act on. Her work blends strategic storytelling, positioning, and go-to-market thinking to connect technical innovation with human relevance and commercial momentum. She is drawn to Koru’s belief that breakthrough technologies need more than invention alone: they need clear narratives, shared belief, and the momentum to succeed in the world.
Rose Robinson
Strategic Design, Parsons
Justin Morris-Marano
Co-director, External Affairs
Owen Myers
Program Coordinator, GiveBackHack
Owen builds and advocates for technology that solves pressing human needs. As GiveBackHack, he advises a community of dozens of founders starting and responsibly growing technology companies in healthcare, sustainability, and government. His own products have raised more than $1M. Koru represents a natural extension of Owen's love for the craft of product-building into brand.
Kelsea D. Macnamara
Independent Designer
Kelsea is a multi-faceted designer with experience across international lifestyle markets. She brings an all-encompassing approach to design by bringing together tactile, digital, historical and cultural inspirations to UX/UI design, branding, editorial and graphic design. Kelsea brings a wide-lens and strategic view to design having worked in sales, project management and retail coordination.
Nick Giammarco
Independent Designer
Nick Giammarco is a graphic designer fueled by curiosity and craft. He specializes in brand identity and type design, creating systems that feel sharp, expressive, and thoughtfully dynamic. Equal parts designer and creative thinker, Nick approaches every project with care, intention, and just the right amount of caffeine. Working with the Koru Collective felt like a natural choice, rooted in a shared belief that creativity can be a force for community, connection, and change.
Tamir Yankevich
Founder, Koru Studio
Tamir Yankevich, Founder of Koru, cut his teeth in electrical engineering, a discipline that teaches you to seek the elegant path through complexity, trusting that a solution exists. That technical lens became a philosophy. That philosophy became Koru.
Eli Kia
General Partner, Fortify Ventures
Eli is a General Partner at Fortify Ventures, where he helps build and manage the fund across sourcing, diligence, portfolio construction, and co-investor relationships. He brings deep experience in early stage venture, consumer health, and the practical mechanics of turning ambitious ideas into durable companies. He is especially drawn to projects where technical insight, founder empathy, and community building all matter, including through Distilled Intelligence, Fortify's annual summit for founders and investors. Koru's mission resonates with him because he believes the strongest outcomes come from trusted networks of builders, operators, and investors working together.
Jackson Fall
Independent Designer
Tony Alva
Brand Strategy
Shawn Rolph
Founder, Copycat NYC
Cut from the cloth of those that believe stories are what holds the stars together, Shawn has built a NYC agency, ecosystem, and career on a single premise—that narrative isn’t the framing; it’s the strategy. He plans to bring the same waltz and framework to Koru.
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