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Story Ventures

Founders Brian Yormak Jacob Yormak

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Total investments 47
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$7M
Portfolio companies 28
Rounds per year 5.88
Lead investments 6
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.40
Exits 2
Key employees 2
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Health Care
  • Financial Services
  • Software
  • Machine Learning
Summary

Story Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2016. The company was established in North America in United States. The main office of represented VC is situated in the New York.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight WaystoCap, nemedio, Jiko. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Marketplace, FinTech. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager.

The typical startup value when the investment from Story Ventures is 5-10 millions dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Story Ventures works on 24 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2017. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 15 percentage points less often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year.

This organization was formed by Jacob Yormak. We also calculated 2 valuable employees in our database.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 6-7 participants. Despite the Story Ventures, startups are often financed by Grand Central Tech, The Gramercy Fund, Signia Venture Partners. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Fontinalis Partners, Third Prime, Rosecliff Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, Third Prime, Valar Ventures.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aether Biomedical

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$5M12 Nov 2023 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Nomic AI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$17M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Summer​

Financial Services
$7M25 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mavida Health

Health Care
$1M31 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Particle Health

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$25M12 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

Delfina

Health Care
Personal Health
Service Industry
$5M09 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Zaya Care

Health Care
Health Insurance
Information Technology
Wellness
$7M08 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$40M16 Feb 2022 California, United States

Polymer

Cyber Security
Data Center
Data Integration
SaaS
$4M13 Dec 2021 New York, New York, United States
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Smile Identity Raises $7M in Series A Funding

– Smile Identity from Lagos, Nigeria provides ID verification and KYC compliance through Artificial Intelligence.
– The company raised $7M in Series A Funding.
– The round was led by Costanoa Ventures with participation from CRE Venture Capital, Local Globe, Intercept Ventures, Future Africa Ventures, Khosla Impact ValueStream Ventures, Beta Ventures, 500 Startups and Story Ventures.
– The company plans to use the new funding to improve its services, expand across more markets, add support for more ID types and hire more engineers and support staff across Africa.

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Total investments 47
Average round size 7M
Rounds per year 5.88
Peak activity year 2017
Lead investments 6
Follow on index 0.40
Exits 2
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Aether Biomedical

Artificial Intelligence
Biotechnology
Electronics
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
Medical Device
Robotics
$5M12 Nov 2023 Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Nomic AI

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
$17M13 Jul 2023 New York, New York, United States

Summer​

Financial Services
$7M25 Apr 2023 New York, New York, United States

Mavida Health

Health Care
$1M31 Mar 2023 Los Angeles, California, United States

Particle Health

Clinical Trials
Health Care
Information Technology
Medical
$25M12 Jul 2022 New York, New York, United States

Delfina

Health Care
Personal Health
Service Industry
$5M09 Mar 2022 San Francisco, California, United States

Zaya Care

Health Care
Health Insurance
Information Technology
Wellness
$7M08 Mar 2022 New York, New York, United States

Motorq

Automotive
Enterprise Software
Fleet Management
Software Engineering
$40M16 Feb 2022 California, United States

Polymer

Cyber Security
Data Center
Data Integration
SaaS
$4M13 Dec 2021 New York, New York, United States
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