Joe Raczka

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at York IE

📍 Manchester, New Hampshire, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 16 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Apr 2026
Were working with some of the top hospitality groups in the United States. Results: → 23% increase in inquiry-to-booking conversion rate. → Each lead engaged <15 seconds. → Eliminates 100% of missed leads. → 36% boost in repeat bookings. Mia operates 24/7, and on autopilot. Check out our website (hermetic.ai) and book a call. DM with questions.
Board Member
Jun 2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
At Detect, we are powering tomorrows grid: uninterrupted with boundless expansion. Our mission is to develop an autonomous system to predict and prevent powerline failures today to create tomorrows stable, secure and unlimited power grid.
Board Member
Jan 2024
PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks in real-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.
Board Observer
Aug 2023
Givzeys standalone Gift Agreement Platform empowers fundraisers to formalize and book gift commitments in seconds.
Board Observer
Apr 2023
Cognitive Space brings an AI-SaaS solution for intelligent satellite automation to empower and enable the use of space. We work with satellite operators looking for an effective and automated mission planning solution to improve yield and reduce latencies in scheduling, and with Government entities looking to make better use of space capacity.
Board Member
Dec 2022
BlueTrace simplifies the seafood supply chain. A modern seafood sales & operations platform that solves problems messy whiteboards, handwritten tags, and homegrown spreadsheets just cant handle. BlueTrace enables seafood organizations large and small to streamline operations and comply with critical food safety regulations.
Board Observer
Aug 2022
Bento’s dental plan platform connects organizations, employers, patients, and dentists directly without the need for traditional dental insurance companies. Our end-to-end platform integrates all parties, which reduces inefficiencies and unnecessary costs, while increasing savings, and improving access to oral care for all Americans. We are changing how individuals, families, groups, and employers think about dental benefits. Our revolutionary price transparency, the fastest-growing group of dental providers, and superior member and customer experience, empower Bento as a market-leader in oral care innovation. The first integrated solution for organizations and individuals that enables affordable, access to oral care without the need to contract with insurance companies. Employers, groups, and associations of any size and any budget can improve their existing dental benefit or create a new benefit while saving 20% to 40% compared to traditional dental insurance. Don't have access to a dental benefit from an employer or group? Download the award-winning app and access a pre-negotiated rates at our nationwide network of dentists. Save up to 50% on the cost of every dental procedure. Or ask your dentist if they offer in-office membership plans powered by Bento and purchase directly from your dentist. Bento is leading the revolution in price transparency. Make informed dental decisions when you use Price Check to view prices of common procedures in your area before you go to the dentist .
Board Member
Jul 2022
Maxa automates financial and ERP insights. We transform multiple financial and operational systems’ raw data into a common, friendly data model where all the insights the C-suite needs are pre-computed and readily available in a data model anyone can understand. No special skills required. No upfront costs for technology, software, services: simply pay for successful insight generation.
Board Member
Feb 2022
Nurse-1-1 is a digital healthcare platform that drives meaningful patient engagement to bridge the gap between online marketing campaigns and improved clinical outcomes, by enhancing the patient experience, improving patient adherence, and increasing the impact of their commercial spend. Nurse-1-1 offers HIPAA-compliant, personalized, one-on-one digital conversations between patients and nurses or staff, providing continual conversational care throughout the patient journey. Organizations can embed Nurse-1-1’s live chat directly into their website to allow trusted live nurses and staff to directly engage and influence patient awareness, activation, and adherence, guiding patients towards high-value actions with human empathy. Additionally, customizable automated campaigns and follow-ups make continued touch points, future support, and medication and symptom tracking possible. Organizations in the pharmaceutical, digital health and at-home diagnostics industries are using Nurse-1-1 to gain a higher share of their market, build brand loyalty and trust, increase the volume of new patients starting treatment, and improve overall patient experience. Nurse-1-1 partners report that by providing their patients with empathetic conversational guidance they have seen a 57% increase in patient adherence. Overall, Nurse-1-1's services improve patient outcomes, increase patient engagement and adherence, and provide organizations visibility into the patient journey from marketing campaigns to clinical outcomes, enabling the opportunity to make data-driven decisions.
Board Observer
Oct 2021
Zippity is the only onsite service software for owner-operators who need to run their entire business from their phone. Impress customers and reduce manual tasks with a modern platform that helps you dispatch your online bookings, manage customer messages, streamline getting paid, stay organized, and get more 5-star reviews.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
Built specifically for the needs of the healthcare industry, MedStack makes it easy for application innovators to build, launch and scale compliant applications that automatically meet the requirements of todays healthcare enterprise systems. We are the only solution that combines the power of a platform with built-in security and provable compliance, so you can confidently provide the assurance needed to sell your digital health application. Trusted by hundreds of digital health companies and validated by major healthcare systems across North America, MedStack is emerging as the de facto standard for delivering the highest levels of data security and privacy compliance.
Board Observer
Jul 2021
Our next-generation engagement and visibility platform equips operations leaders and managers with unprecedented levels of business-changing insights. More than 10,000 QSR locations across the country use the HourWork platform to drive sentiment analysis, employee feedback, and retention insights to make better decisions. Visit www.HourWork.com to learn more about our company, leaders, and culture.
Board Member
Mar 2021
Serenity is the only network that allows aging service providers, older adults, and their loved ones to “care together.” Our web, mobile and smart assistant products power the network to enable real-time, HIPAA-compliant communication, collaboration, and education. Providers and communities increase revenue and lower expenses, while older adults get better care and their families have greater peace of mind.
Board Observer
May 2020
VETRO builds software that makes it radically simpler and faster for broadband providers to plan, design, build, and operate their fiber optic networks. Our map-based SaaS platform is easier to use and more powerful than traditional tools, and enables network owners, operators and sponsors to benefit from a modern, integrated, and connected digital hub for their physical network assets. Launched in 2017, VETRO is experiencing rapid adoption worldwide as we scale to meet an eager connectivity market. ISPs, Electric Co-ops, Local Governments and many others who are deploying and managing fiber now rely on VETRO FiberMap as their system of record for network documentation and asset management, as well as a collaboration and integration platform. Leveraging the platform combined with our top notch onboarding and support team, our customers need to hire fewer specialty technical staff, and routinely report reduced overhead and dramatic increases in productivity. Our goal is to provide the worlds best mapping platform for internet/broadband infrastructure planning, design, construction and operations. And in doing so to deliver a platform that becomes the digital home for the physical internet. We are Headquartered in Portland, Maine and take pride in our Maine HQ and foundation underpinning a distributed team across the U.S.
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2026
Board Member
Apr 2026
Were working with some of the top hospitality groups in the United States. Results: → 23% increase in inquiry-to-booking conversion rate. → Each lead engaged <15 seconds. → Eliminates 100% of missed leads. → 36% boost in repeat bookings. Mia operates 24/7, and on autopilot. Check out our website (hermetic.ai) and book a call. DM with questions.
2025
Board Member
Jun 2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
At Detect, we are powering tomorrows grid: uninterrupted with boundless expansion. Our mission is to develop an autonomous system to predict and prevent powerline failures today to create tomorrows stable, secure and unlimited power grid.
2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
PeakMetrics provides a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats. Using state-of-the-art ML technology, PeakMetrics analyzes more than 1.5 million media sources and 10 different social media platforms to identify media manipulation and adversarial attacks in real-time, before they cause damage. Organizations use PeakMetrics to discern source credibility, understand how audiences spread narratives, and quantify risk and response scenarios — without spending millions on crisis communication and manual sentiment analysis. Detect, decipher, defend at peakmetrics.com.
2023
Board Observer
Aug 2023
Givzeys standalone Gift Agreement Platform empowers fundraisers to formalize and book gift commitments in seconds.
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