York IE
VC Fund
Manchester, United States
York IE is a VC fund in Manchester focused on Software and SaaS. York IE® is an advisory and investment firm that helps technology companies grow. York IE leverages a 200+ person global operating team, data and automation technology, and deep ecosystem relationships to provide advisory as a service across product, go-to-market, and finance and to selectively invest in early-stage B2B SaaS startups. Founders, operators, and investors at all stages rely on York IE to help build, scale and monetize their business. Fuel® Your Strategic Growth at York IE.
- Total investments:
- 79
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 42%
Last updated:
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Industries York IE invests in
Stages York IE invests in
Countries York IE invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 9 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $1.5M–$5.3M
- Pre-Seed
- $1M–$3.3M
- Series A
- $4M–$13M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 28 (35%)
- SaaS 16 (20%)
- Information Technology 16 (20%)
- Artificial Intelligence 16 (20%)
- Machine Learning 9 (11%)
Stage
- Seed 42 (53%)
- Series A 13 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 7 (9%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 4 (5%)
- Funding Round 3 (4%)
Country
- United States 51 (65%)
- Canada 4 (5%)
- Norway 1 (1%)
- United Kingdom 1 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Adam Coughlin
CMO & Managing Partner
|
CMO & Managing Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Janelle Gorman, CPA
Chief Financial Officer
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Chief Financial Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Joe Raczka
COO & Managing Partner
|
COO & Managing Partner | Total investments: 17 | Find email | |
Katelyn Campbell
Vice President, Advisory Services
|
Vice President, Advisory Services | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Kyle York
CEO & Managing Partner
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CEO & Managing Partner | Total investments: 36 | Find email | |
| See all 9 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Siena AI is a developer of an autonomous chat platform that aims to transform the way it runs and interacts with consumers by combining human empathy and intelligent automation. The platform provides capabilities such as product information, order tracking, address changes, returns and product exchanges, subscription and retention management,allowing firms to conduct customer care and social media interactions autonomously. | $17M / Series A / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Meadow AI is developing the retail and restaurant industries' operational brains. Our multimodal AI platform transforms POS, audio, and camera data into insights and actions in real time. | $7M / Seed / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Lexful is an AI-native IT documentation platform designed exclusively for MSPs. Innovative and insightful, Lexful automatically harvests and manages IT documentation, transforming static, obsolete information, as well as tribal knowledge, into reliable, contextual intelligence that teams can use. | $7M / Seed / Jun 08, 2026 | ||
| SetSale is an AI-powered sales platform that provides automated pricebook, CRM integration, and financial calculation for HVAC contractors. | $2.6M / Seed / Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| WorkHero is the AI-powered back office for small HVAC contractors, combining industry experts with custom AI agents to handle invoicing, permits, rebates, equipment warranties, pricebook creation, and much more. Founded in 2024 by Furman Haynes, Kyler Evitt, and Gerald Chertavian, WorkHero is a Workshop Ventures company. | $5M / Seed / Oct 27, 2025 | ||
| Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible. | $2.2M / Seed / Jul 15, 2025 | ||
| hief is the first and only predictive operations platform designed for B2B SaaS enterprises in their growth stage. Chief turns unprocessed data into useful insights by combining and scaling up machine learning and generative. | $3.3M / Pre-Seed / Apr 15, 2025 | ||
| Cold is a sustainability compliance platform for startups and medium-sized businesses. | $2.7M / Pre-Seed / Oct 31, 2024 | ||
| Winrate is an AI-powered application designed to simplify meeting scheduling. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Sep 04, 2024 | ||
| We make innovation data accessible, understandable and actionable by centralizing technology-driven research to one user-friendly, collaborative platform and providing AI-powered insights from disparate data sets. In doing so, we’re helping R&D and innovation teams accelerate their R&D strategy buildout. Cypris was founded in 2019 and isheadquartered in New York City. | $5.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 28, 2024 | ||
| See all 79 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does York IE invest in?
York IE invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 79 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does York IE invest in?
York IE typically joins rounds of $1.5M–$5.3M at Seed, $1M–$3.3M at Pre-Seed and $4M–$13M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not York IE's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds York IE took part in.
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Who are the partners at York IE?
The team at York IE includes Adam Coughlin (CMO & Managing Partner), Janelle Gorman, CPA (Chief Financial Officer) and Joe Raczka (COO & Managing Partner), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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