Jake Yormak is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Story Ventures. See sector focus, stage focus and contact routes.
Jake Yormak is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Story Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm he launched in 2016 with his brother Brian after practicing law at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Gunderson Dettmer. His investment thesis targets early-stage companies building the data automation ecosystem across three layers: sensory systems for data capture, data processing for organization, and machine intelligence for decision-making. Story Ventures typically invests check sizes between $500,000 and $5 million across Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, and Series B stages, primarily within the United States. Notable portfolio companies include Petal, Particle Health, ViaPhoton, and Parable, which operates in business software. Yormak emphasizes investing in technology-driven firms with defensible moats in either proprietary technology or data network effects that improve as more data is collected. He has publicly discussed the attractiveness of hardware in AI and the modern data stack, arguing that the most impactful problems require innovative, data-driven solutions.
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