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Brian Yormak

Managing Partner at Story Ventures

New York, New York

Overview 

Brian Yormak is the Managing Partner at Story Ventures in New York, with a background in investment banking and venture capital. He has successfully invested in companies like Aether Biomedical during Series A funding and has experience working with Fontinalis Partners, LLC and Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking. Brian's career highlights include managing investments in early-stage companies in sectors such as AR/VR and advertising, and his role as a Fellow at Venture for America, showcasing his expertise in financial analysis, financial modeling, and investment strategies.

Work Experience 

SV

Story Ventures

  • Managing Partner

    2017 - Current

    Story is an early stage venture fund based in NYC. We invest in entrepreneurs with big visions that leverage technology and improved data processing capabilities to change the way people interact with the world. Sectors we target include cybersecurity, critical infrastructure (telecom, IT, finance), vertical AI/machine learning, and intelligent mobility, among others. The general approach is to invest across the data landscape from creation (e.g. sensors) to infrastructure (e.g. pipes/tubes of IT) to application (e.g. AI/ML).

Vf

Venture for America

  • Fellow

    2015

    Venture for America is a career accelerator for recent grads who want to learn how to build a business while making an impact. VFA Fellows receive training and join a startup in an emerging U.S. city, where we live and work for two years at one of our hundreds of partner companies. We learn hands-on what it takes to build a company, while getting the mentorship, network, and ongoing support to prepare ourselves to become successful entrepreneurs. Our goal is to spark job growth in cities that need it by sending top-talent to help grow the businesses that will make it happen.

FP

Fontinalis Partners, LLC

  • Investor

    2015 - 2017

    Fontinalis Partners is a strategic investment firm that seeks to invest in growth-stage companies operating in the next-generation mobility space. Fontinalis takes a value-added approach to helping scale its portfolio companies by combining its resources and assuming an active, hands-on role. To date, Fontinalis has invested in the following innovative companies across the next-generation mobility landscape: ● Autonomous Marine Systems ● Elementum ● INRIX ● Life360 ● LocoMobi ● Lyft ● Masabi ● Nano-C ● nuTonomy ● Parkmobile ● RelayRides ● Service.com ● SmartKargo ● SQLstream ● Synovia Solutions ● Telogis ● TransLoc ● Zagster ● Zendrive

SG

Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking - SGCIB

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2014 - 2015

    Participate in all phases of the transaction process including the writing of credit applications that analyze financial statements, business strategy, risks, and market environment within the Energy & Natural Resources Trade & Commodity Finance team with a focus in Agribusiness.

Societe Generale provides corporate investment banking, broad market access to issuers and smart investment solutions to investors.

sgcib.com

Education 

Investments 

Aether Biomedical

Series A

Total funding: $7M

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