Kyle York

Co-founder, CEO, and Managing Partner, York IE · 1 appearance on the record.

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Kyle York is the CEO of York IE, a hybrid strategic advisory and venture capital firm that supports early-stage B2B SaaS and technology startups. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Revenue Officer at Dyn, scaling the business to $100 million ARR prior to its acquisition by Oracle.

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported

Kyle York: Dyn bootstrapped to $30M ARR before taking outside capital

“I mean, the best part of the Dine story is that we didn't raise a dollar of outside capital till we were a thirty million ARR.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 8:59 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

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What they said9 What others said1 Episodes1

Everything Kyle York said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion

Mattermark failed because it raised too much venture capital, says York

“The other reason why Metamark wasn't a successful company is because they fundraise too much.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 8:51 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Assertion Supported

Kyle York: Dyn bootstrapped to $30M ARR before taking outside capital

“I mean, the best part of the Dine story is that we didn't raise a dollar of outside capital till we were a thirty million ARR.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 8:59 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Disclosure

York: York IE charges zero management fees, taking only deal-by-deal carry

“So what we basically created is a master series vehicle, a high net worth individuals and family offices invest alongside our capital. There's no traditional management fee and there's no traditional fund economics. We get a five year commitment from our inves…”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 11:24 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Assertion Supported

York: Dyn scaled to $100M ARR before 2016 Oracle acquisition

“You know, claim to fame, helped build a company called Dine that we built to a hundred million ARR and sold to Oracle back in 2016.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 2:34 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Disclosure

York: York IE managed services start at $3,000 per month

“And so those services start at three K a month. And they scale up from there.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 4:36 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

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York IE database tracks 800K companies and scrapes 3M more

“I think the current database is about 800,000. But last I checked just this past Friday release, it's we're recording this on a Monday in mid-October, they we added the capability to scrape another three million companies through our data sets.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 6:00 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

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York: SaaS syndicate remains AngelList's largest SaaS-specific syndicate

“So back in 2014, I co-founded the SAS syndicate on AngelList, which remains the largest SAS specific syndicate on the platform.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 10:53 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Disclosure

York: York IE has deployed around $6.5M across 17 investments

“And so we've done, since we launched, actually we were just wired a deal today. We've done 17 investments. We've deployed right around six and a half million dollars. We average about a 500 K check size now because it's evergreen.”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 12:25 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Kyle York: York IE reached roughly $1.5M ARR in its first year

“Yeah, we have about 25 outside clients, you know, average tickets paying around seven grand a month for the services. So, you know, we've got ourselves upwards of, you know, with our, with some of our other project work and things we've done, we've got ourselv…”

Kyle York Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 15:47 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

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Statements about Kyle York, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported

Latka: Kyle York Has Invested in Over 75 Startups in Past Decade

“Investing in over 75 startups over the past decade, Kyle is also a co-founder and board member of a fourth-third generation family business called York Athletics MFG, an e-commerce footwear brand based in Boston, and is also a board member of CAMS, Ascent Comp…”

Nathan Latka Nov 7, 2020 ▶ 1:58 York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
York hits $1.5m Revenue Helping Founders Scale	Nov 7, 2020	13m

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