Tara Stokes

Tara Stokes is a Partner on the Investment team at Point72 Ventures, operating out of the firm's office in New York, United States. In this leadership capacity, she directs the venture capital firm's strategic investments in early-stage artificial intelligence and machine learning startups. Prior to joining Point72 Ventures, she worked as an Investment Banking Associate at Morgan Stanley, where she developed her foundational financial expertise. She originally began her career in the financial services industry operating as an institutional equity trader focused specifically on the technology, media, and telecom sectors. Stokes earned a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Duke University. Her professional background merges traditional investment banking and equity trading with a current focus on scaling high-potential artificial intelligence technology companies.