Jake Yormak is a former big-law attorney who built Story Ventures with his brother using an unusually concentrated early-stage strategy of roughly 12 core companies per fund, with more than half the capital ultimately going to about four perceived outliers. He focuses on technically complex, often hardware-plus-software companies within his modern data stack thesis—spanning sensors that capture raw data, infrastructure that processes it, and AI layers that turn it into decisions—while using his legal background to help founders navigate structural and deal term questions that most VCs can't address. Jake Yormak is a former big-law attorney who built Story Ventures with his brother using an unusually concentrated early-stage strategy of roughly 12 core companies per fund, with more than half the capital ultimately going to about four perceived outliers. He focuses on technically complex, often hardware-plus-software companies within his modern data stack thesis—spanning sensors that capture raw data, infrastructure that processes it, and AI layers that turn it into decisions—while using his legal background to help founders navigate structural and deal term questions that most VCs can't address.