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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: 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.”
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…”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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: 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…”