Kyle York

CEO York IE - Investment and Operating Firm for the Private Technology Market 💸

📍 Manchester, New Hampshire, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 21 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
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Board Member & Investor
Sep 2024
Winning starts way before the first call. Winrate fuels smarter lists, surfaces custom signals, and builds the credibility to close. Work the right accounts, with messaging that builds qualified pipeline. Be prepared for every meeting, never miss a detail or follow up. Automate the creation of Sales Materials that win deals.
Board Member & Investor
Jun 2024
A next-gen content and commerce delivery network, DISTINCT provides its global brand partners with an enterprise technology to capture, create, and turn moments into shared memories. DISTINCT is a white-label SaaS platform to drive the digital expansion of existing customer touchpoints. It is a secure and scalable solution on a mission to humanize the digital relationship between brands and consumers.
Board Member & Investor
Jan 2023
Cypris is an AI-powered research platform built for R&D and innovation teams. The platform uses proprietary AI technology to grant users access to one of the world’s largest innovation databases, which centralizes 500M+ private and public data points from research papers, global patents, market news sources and company profiles in an easy-to-use Innovation Dashboard. Cypris also offers a custom report service with expert analysts that provide data-driven, actionable insights to solve unique business challenges. R&D, innovation, business development and marketing teams collaborate on Cypris to generate new ideas, size up the competition, develop go-to-market strategies and identify technology licensing opportunities — all while saving valuable time and resources. Turn data into innovation at cypris.ai.
Board Member & Investor
Jan 2023
Mission control for your school data - SchoolBI is a centralized, clean, and user-friendly platform that simplifies data democratization and helps uncover data-driven insights by unifying disparate and siloed data systems across various departments into a golden record.
Board Member & Investor
May 2022
Klearly transforms traditional B2B marketing, sales, and customer success teams into data-driven, optimized functions working together to generate revenue. Using machine learning and prescriptive analytics, Klearly provides a software application to empower teams with actionable, revenue-centric insights.
Board Member & Investor
Nov 2021
Leading e-commerce brands use Voyage's powerful SMS marketing and message platform to drive revenue and build customer loyalty at scale. We seek to help brands foster thoughtful, authentic interactions with their customers and build community. We understand brands measure performance not only in today's reach, ROI, and bottom line but also in the sustainable health of customer relationships and experiences. Text messaging is amongst the most sacred of communication channels today. SMS makes all of this possible. While we are focusing on building texting solutions today, our DNA equips us to design solutions for any messaging channel tomorrow. We never lose sight that customers and the people behind brands are humans. We create products that are built not for abstract data points but for humans. *Voyage is a S.H.A.F.T.-friendly platform!
Board Member & Investor
Jan 2021
Sports media platform creating all-access content with athletes across video features, podcasts, newsletters and beyond!
mid stageOnline Media
Board Member & Investor
Sep 2020
Blustream is your after-sale product engagement solution. Blustream is a SaaS-based after-sale product engagement company that builds active, ongoing connections between companies and their customers through positive after-sale product engagement. Blustream's platform enables brands to provide unique after-sale engagement with their customers by managing product lifecycle touchpoints through the onboarding, usage, and maintenance stages of the consumer-product continuum. Data is monitored to trigger personalized product engagement actions, including tips, alerts, and purchase recommendations, at exactly the right time from brands to their consumers. Today, CEOs, CMOs, and executives in charge of digital transformation use Blustream to create a direct channel with their customers to decrease churn and increase both revenue and customer Life Time Value to ultimately deliver better customer satisfaction. Contact us to learn more at hello@blustream.io
Board Observer, Advisor & Investor
Jul 2020
B2B marketers use Metadata’s Marketing OS to drive more revenue without all the manual and repetitive work. From running paid campaigns to personalizing web experiences to optimizing everything to revenue – Metadata automates all of this. This means less time spent on low-value tasks and more time spent on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue.
Board Chairperson & Investor
May 2020
Canvs AI is an insights platform for unstructured consumer feedback. Our mission is to make customer empathy a superpower for every business. Some of the worlds most admired brands, like Chobani, National Geographic, PODS, and Disney use Canvs to transform open-ended text into critical business insights.
Advisor & YCC Ventures Investor
Sep 2019
YCC is a portfolio of privately-owned creative ventures working together to maximize their growth potential. We are one-part growth engine and one-part brand steward. YCC was founded in 2019 by GYK Antler CEO Travis York, a longtime investor and creative entrepreneur, with the mission of building brands and businesses that are connected by a shared focus on quality, craft and authenticity. Ventures are given access to a comprehensive suite of resources to help them grow and thrive, while they prioritize and focus on what drives their business forward. GYK Antler’s creative marketing services are strategically positioned at the center of the ecosystem to drive growth. Whether ventures need strategic advisory services or business operations support from YCC’s experienced business leadership team or access to capital, they can create efficiencies through YCC’s shared services offering. YCC ventures include GYK Antler, an integrated marketing company; Big Brick Productions, a full-service video production company; Iron & Air, an omni-channel media platform for motorcycle enthusiasts; YORK Athletics Mfg., a DTC performance footwear company; Noble & Cooley, a historic premium drum manufacturer; and TorchPro, a sports media company changing the way fans and athletes interact.
Board Member
Dec 2017
Assent is the leader in supply chain sustainability management solutions. With more than a decade of experience, Assent is specifically focused on complex manufacturers, a subset of manufacturers in the industrial equipment, electronics, medical device, aerospace/defense and automotive verticals whose products have a long design cycle and shelf life. More importantly, with thousands of parts making up a single product — and equally as many supplier partners across their global supply chain — complex manufacturers have extreme supply chain sustainability requirements. The Assent solution blends the SaaS technology platform with managed services and its world-class Regulatory Team of subject matter experts who keep customers ahead of compliance and regulatory changes across the globe. Assent’s customers use our solutions across product compliance, trade compliance and ESG to capture, track, report on and manage supply chain compliance and sustainability performance of their suppliers. Assent is on a mission to make the supply chains of complex manufacturers deeply and durably good by helping them see deeper into their supply chains, be smarter with powerful data, and grow better to seize market opportunities.
Board Member & Investor
Mar 2017
Forcivity is a full-service Salesforce consultancy and system integrator, with vertical focuses in Manufacturing, High-Tech and Non-Profit. In addition to our standard service offerings focused on Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, we have deep expertise designing and deploying large-scale Partner and Customer Communities.
Co-Founder, Board Member & Investor
Feb 2016
At YORK Athletics, we believe that the power of the fighting spirit can be used to redefine ourselves, inspire communities and change the future. Were committed to motivating and celebrating the everyday fighter on their journey towards personal growth, balance and carving out a unique - and often powerful - path in life. To us, thats WORTH THE FIGHT. #worththefight YORK Athletics manufactures high-quality unisex footwear that is built to perform and intentionally designed with a minimal aesthetic, making them versatile for any wearing occasion. Our signature sneaker, The Henry, was recently awarded Best New Performance Gear​ from Mens Health Magazine and has earned praise in Esquire, ESPN Wns, Hypebeast and Gear Patrol Magazine. www.yorkathleticsmfg.com @yorkathleticsmfg
Board Member & Investor
Oct 2015
Visual work communication tool that helps teams share information faster through instantly shareable videos, gifs, and screenshots with 4 million + users. Integrated with Slack, Atlassian, Asana, AdobeXD, Jira, Zapier, and many others. Named the Snapchat of business by INC magazine in 2017 and a “Best Software Company” in 2018, Zight is positioned as a growing company ready to help you capture, share and save time to optimize your workflow. CloudApp is perfect for Product Designers, Product Managers, Development Teams, Customer Support, Sales, and all teams who work in technology. Sign up for free at zight.com/signup. We are always looking to expand our teams! https://zight.com/careers Additional questions relating to Zight, support.zight.com, or reach out to us on Twitter or Facebook (@zightapp).
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2024
Board Member & Investor
Sep 2024
Winning starts way before the first call. Winrate fuels smarter lists, surfaces custom signals, and builds the credibility to close. Work the right accounts, with messaging that builds qualified pipeline. Be prepared for every meeting, never miss a detail or follow up. Automate the creation of Sales Materials that win deals.
Board Member & Investor
Jun 2024
A next-gen content and commerce delivery network, DISTINCT provides its global brand partners with an enterprise technology to capture, create, and turn moments into shared memories. DISTINCT is a white-label SaaS platform to drive the digital expansion of existing customer touchpoints. It is a secure and scalable solution on a mission to humanize the digital relationship between brands and consumers.
2023
Board Member & Investor
Jan 2023
Cypris is an AI-powered research platform built for R&D and innovation teams. The platform uses proprietary AI technology to grant users access to one of the world’s largest innovation databases, which centralizes 500M+ private and public data points from research papers, global patents, market news sources and company profiles in an easy-to-use Innovation Dashboard. Cypris also offers a custom report service with expert analysts that provide data-driven, actionable insights to solve unique business challenges. R&D, innovation, business development and marketing teams collaborate on Cypris to generate new ideas, size up the competition, develop go-to-market strategies and identify technology licensing opportunities — all while saving valuable time and resources. Turn data into innovation at cypris.ai.
Board Member & Investor
Jan 2023
Mission control for your school data - SchoolBI is a centralized, clean, and user-friendly platform that simplifies data democratization and helps uncover data-driven insights by unifying disparate and siloed data systems across various departments into a golden record.
2022
Co-Founder & Principal
Sep 2022
York Real Estate, based in Manchester, NH, represents the closely-held commercial properties and real estate fund interests of the York family and select strategic partners. With over 100,000 square feet of history-rich office, retail and community space in Manchester, NH, coupled with general partner investments in modern, large scale mixed-use projects alongside tier one construction development firms throughout New England, the Northeast and expanding throughout the United States, York Real Estate is focused on accelerating emerging markets and uplifting communities.
late stageReal Estate
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