Jacob Yormak
Managing Partner, Founder @ Story Ventures
New York, United States
Jacob Yormak is a seed investor at Story Ventures in New York focused on Wellness and Analytics. Story is an early stage venture fund based in NYC. We invest in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world. Sectors we've targeted include cybersecurity, energy infrastructure, telecom, payments, lending, computer processing, dataanalytics/visualization, autonomous movement/connected car, computer vision, and urban infrastructure.My background as a lawyer for start-up companies allows us to help founders navigate the often-overlooked day-to-day challenges of running a company (e.g. structuring financings, making executive hires, managing cap tables, and protecting IP).
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 43%
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Industries Jacob Yormak invests in
Stages Jacob Yormak invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Wellness 2 (29%)
- Analytics 2 (29%)
- Health Care 2 (29%)
- SaaS 1 (14%)
- Medical 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (57%)
- Series A 2 (29%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
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| Delfina provides a personalized prenatal care system that uses the power of data to keep moms and babies safe during pregnancy. Their data-driven approach is uncovering unique insights in prenatal care to pave the way for clinical innovation. | $17M / Series A / Jan 28, 2025 | ||
| Delfina provides a personalized prenatal care system that uses the power of data to keep moms and babies safe during pregnancy. Their data-driven approach is uncovering unique insights in prenatal care to pave the way for clinical innovation. | $5.3M / Seed / Mar 09, 2022 | ||
| Wellory is on a mission is to make healthy eating accessible and affordable.We create one-to-one relationships through a live messaging platform and build data-rich profiles of each consumer's health and behavior trends through increasingly personalized contact over time. With certified knowledge and a new approach to accountability, healthyeating is just a message away-- your very own nutrition expert in your pocket. | $3M / Seed / Dec 02, 2020 | ||
| Phood is a startup company developing a food waste prevention platform that aims to reduce food waste.The platform utilizes data analytics and artificial intelligence to capture the food that businesses, such as restaurants, are purchasing, preparing, and are stored in refrigerators or on shelves to cut food waste in half and helps foodbusinesses build a more resilient food system and supply chain.IN 2015, Luc Dang and Nick Kruczek established the company New York, New York. | $2M / Seed / Nov 23, 2020 | ||
| FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $21M / Series B / Feb 25, 2019 | ||
| FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $13M / Series A / Jun 12, 2018 | ||
| FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform.The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregatingbillions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse.FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market. | $3.4M / Seed / Nov 13, 2017 |
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About Story Ventures
Story is an early-stage venture fund based in NYC that invests in entrepreneurs with big visions leveraging technology and the proliferation of data to change the way people interact with the world.
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What does Jacob Yormak invest in?
Jacob Yormak invests primarily in Wellness, Analytics and Health Care startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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