Kyle York
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We average about a 500K check size now because it's evergreen.
Our average check size is going up every year as we bring on more of a capital pool.
We're up to about $6.5 million per year to deploy
all going into early-stage B2B SaaS businesses.
Because of our heritage, we have a lot of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, DevTools, cybersecurity, but we'll go all the way up the stack into vertical SaaS opportunities in tech-laggard industries.
Again, we lean in.
We're involved.
It has to be the right mutual pairing.
A lot of VCs say they help and they have operational expertise, but we're truly investing.
We've got a 15-person team, ex-operators, active operators.
We're trying to really be an operational extension from a go-to-market perspective.
Yeah, so Khaled was actually, we've done multiple.
So Khaled's, I call it a legacy or investment.
So it was part of our AngelList SaaS syndicate while I was still working at Dyn and Oracle.
So we actually led one of his early seed rounds and then participated in
a couple of different seed rounds through our AngelList syndicate.
And then I was a personal angel investor with Colin and the OnFlip team.
We've actually been actively talking to them recently about our Marcom services module built on top of our fuel platform.
A lot of tech startups don't like the minimums of the Edelmans and the PR shops.
They don't like the siloed nature of media relations and PR.