# Jacob Yormak

> Jacob Yormak is a seed investor at Story Ventures (New York) backing Wellness and Analytics. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Story Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/story-ventures)
- Location: New York, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: Jan 2025
- Lead investor: 43%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

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).

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wellness | 2 | 29% |
| Analytics | 2 | 29% |
| Health Care | 2 | 29% |
| SaaS | 1 | 14% |
| Medical | 1 | 14% |

16 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 57% |
| Series A | 2 | 29% |
| Series B | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Delfina | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [8VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/8vc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Fontinalis Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fontinalis-partners) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Engage](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/engage-ventures-2) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Metrodora Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metrodora-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Revolution](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/revolution) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rise-of-the-rest) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Story Ventures

VC Fund · New York, United States

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.

3 contacts available at Story Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jacob Yormak | Managing Partner, Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jacob-yormak |
| Corey Kossack | Scout Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/corey-kossack |
| Jake Yormak | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jake-yormak |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did Jacob Yormak last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jacob Yormak closed in Jan 2025. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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