Day: May 10, 2022

Company acquires India-based development firm All Cloud Works 

(Manchester, N.H., May 10) — York IE™, a vertically integrated strategic growth and investment firm, today launched new research and development advisory services to help startups build better products.

The R&D services combine strategic planning and project management with world-class developer talent, ensuring companies are building and executing against a product roadmap that drives the business forward.

“It has been a joy working with the York IE R&D team,” said Ken Rapp, CEO, Blustream. “Not only are we hitting all of our development milestones on time, if not early, but the strategic product input I receive gives me the confidence to know all of those milestones are impactful to my business.”

Additionally, York IE acquired its strategic partner All Cloud Works (ACW) Technologies, a global IT consulting and development firm that has played a significant role in developing York IE’s own strategic growth SaaS platform, Fuel.

R&D Services

The York IE research and development services, led by CTO Mike Veilleux, are designed to provide a new type of dev experience. The services are used by early-stage companies that have limited or no in-house development teams, as well as by more mature companies looking to complement existing teams, add burst capacity or get functional support in areas such as user experience (UX).

StanData, 4AM Demand, OpenRounds and BluStream are among the startups already piloting York IE’s R&D services, which include:

• Product roadmap strategy and management
• Feature and requirements definition
• UX design
• Mobile, cloud and hybrid application development
• Cloud architecture
• Software engineering
• Quality assurance and testing
• Platform modernization
• Marketing website messaging, development and training
• R&D labs

“York IE offers a one-stop shop for B2B companies’ strategic growth needs,” said Kyle York, CEO, York IE. “In talking with startups we kept hearing the need for product development that combined SaaS, startup and cloud experience. We think this new offering is going to help a lot of companies, especially when implemented with some of our other advisory services offerings.”

York IE also offers these advisory services to help companies strategically grow:

• Market and Product
• Financial Operations and Capital Strategy
• Go-to-Market and Sales Scaling
• Marketing and Communications
• Talent and Culture

ACW Acquisition

ACW Technologies, based in Ahmedabad, India, was founded by Kalrav Parsana after he spent five years as an embedded engineer at eInfochips. Parsana and his team have been actively involved in building York IE’s strategic growth platform, Fuel, as well as working as a contractor for York IE clients over the past year.

“We have had a long partnership with York IE, and so it was a natural next step to become an official part of the team,” said Parsana, who is now the head of York IE India. “Our team has years of experience in delivering large and complex cloud and SaaS platforms that are built to serve millions of users. We collaborate as an extension of your team with dedicated subject matter experts, consultants and certified engineers who love problem-solving for our customers.”

To learn more, visit https://york.ie/services/.

ABOUT YORK IE

York IE™ is a vertically integrated strategic growth and investment firm helping reshape the way companies are built, scaled and monetized. Through Fuel™, its SaaS platform, hands-on advisory services and selective early stage B2B SaaS investments, York IE supports ambitious entrepreneurs, operators and investors on their quest to scale startups and disrupt markets.

MEDIA CONTACT

Kate Campbell
VP, Advisory Services
kate@york.ie

It always gives me great pleasure to share my amazing journey with York IE so far. Although we have worked together for more than two years leading up to today’s acquisition of my firm, All Cloud Works (ACW) Technologies, I feel this exciting ride has just begun and plenty of fun elements are yet to come.

A couple of years ago, I had just quit as an engineer to work as a software development contractor full-time and challenge myself with varied projects. I got in touch with Mike Veilleux, CTO of York IE.

Mike had quite a problem to solve in the domain of cloud architecture and had posted about it on one of the top freelancing platforms. I guess I got intrigued by the kind of work Mike and his team were doing, and I decided to contribute to their development program. Mike hired me. Funnily enough, I couldn’t solve the whole problem but managed to solve a few chunks of it.

After that, Mike re-hired me for another project, and I asked, “Hey, I couldn’t solve your last problem fully. Why would you hire me again?”

He replied, “Well, you solved the parts my team couldn’t, and that’s why I believe you are the perfect fit for us in the long term.”

I had very little idea of where this engagement could go next, but retrospectively speaking, it was one of the best things that could have happened to me. Mike put a great deal of trust in me, and after the first couple of projects on as-needed basis, we started working together continuously and built a brilliant line of products for York IE and its portfolio companies.

Currently, my team of 10-plus engineers and I work with some of the most delightful clients at York IE, and we are poised to take this to the next level. As we are positioned to strive for more market disruption, our combined focus will be on:

• always staying customer-centric and empathetic;
• bringing the smartest pool of talent to our endeavors;
• introducing superior products to the world to further our competitiveness;
• constantly transforming and evolving ourselves to stay innovative; and
• building resilience for sustainable growth so we can tackle any challenges that come our way.

Like our CEO Kyle York, I am also a strong believer in the philosophy that if you build stronger bonds with the people you work with, you’ll achieve great heights together. And that’s what gives me the pure joy of working at York IE. Despite the pandemic or time zone difference or any other operational challenges, our India and United States teams have built a strong working relationship that reflects greatly in the kind of wonderful work we are doing for our clients.

I would like to thank the leadership at York IE for giving me this amazing opportunity to change the way startups are built, scaled and monetized. I am thrilled to take this partnership to great levels ahead!