Jeremy Allaire, Sean Neville

Issuer of USDC (2nd-largest stablecoin, ~$60B+ cap), Circle moved its global HQ to One World Trade Center in NYC ahead of its June 2025 NYSE IPO (CRCL), which priced at a ~$6.9B valuation and surged 600%+ wi...

Tyler Winklevoss, Cameron Winklevoss

Founded 2014, Gemini is a NYDFS-regulated crypto exchange + custody + stablecoin (GUSD) + rewards-card platform holding $21B+ in assets. IPO'd on Nasdaq (GEMI) Sept 2025 at a $3.3B valuation, popping 14% on ...

Dee Choubey, Chee Mun Foong

Founded 2013 by Indian-American CEO Dee Choubey, MoneyLion is an AI-powered consumer-finance + embedded-finance platform serving ~18M customers. Public via SPAC (NYSE: ML), it was acquired by Gen Digital (No...

Gal Krubiner, Yahav Yulzari, Avital Pardo

Founded 2016, Pagaya is an AI-driven credit / lending-infrastructure network that underwrites consumer loans for banks and lenders. Public on Nasdaq (PGY); reached GAAP profitability in 2025, swinging from a...

Tommy Nicholas, Charles Hearn, Laura Spiekerman

Founded 2015, Alloy is the leading identity-decisioning / fraud + KYC platform for banks and fintechs, connecting 160+ data sources via API. It raised $52M (Lightspeed, Avenir) at a $1.55B valuation and repo...

Jon Stein (Sarah Levy, CEO)

Founded 2008, Betterment is the largest independent robo-advisor / digital wealth platform, crossing $65B+ AUM by late 2025. It has expanded into 401(k), advisor (RIA) and high-net-worth offerings. A definin...

Ankur Jain

Founded 2021 by Indian-American entrepreneur Ankur Jain, Bilt is a rewards + payments network that lets renters earn points on rent (and now mortgage, utilities) redeemable with airlines, hotels and merchant...

Gil Mandelzis, Igor Teleshevsky, Tom Glocer

Founded 2017, Capitolis is a capital-markets-tech platform that optimizes balance sheets and unlocks capital across banks via netting, compression and a novel capital marketplace. Raised a $110M Series D at ...

Michael Gronager, Jonathan Levin

Founded 2014, Chainalysis is the leading blockchain-data / crypto-compliance platform serving banks, exchanges and governments. Valued at ~$8.6B (Accel, Benchmark) with ~$87M revenue in 2025; it raised a Ser...

Gilles Gade

Founded 2008 in Fort Lee NJ, Cross River is the banking-as-a-service backbone behind the fintech boom — the sponsor bank / embedded-payments-cards-lending-crypto rails for 80+ fintechs including Affirm, Coin...

Stuart Sopp, Trevor Marshall

Founded 2015 by ex-Morgan Stanley trader Stuart Sopp, Current is a consumer neobank targeting underbanked Americans. It closed an $80M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (QED, a16z, Expa), reported a t...

Jason Lee, Rob Law

Founded 2015, DailyPay is the leading earned-wage-access (on-demand pay) platform, letting employees access earned wages before payday. Valued ~$1.75B (Carrick Capital) with ~$235M revenue in 2024 and 640% t...

Wemimo Abbey, Samir Goel

Founded 2018, Esusu helps renters build credit by reporting on-time rent payments to the major bureaus, covering ~5M rental units across all 50 states. Valued at $1.2B (SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Serena Venture...

Michael Shaulov, Idan Ofrat, Pavel Berengoltz

Founded 2018, Fireblocks is the leading digital-asset custody and infrastructure provider, valued at $8B on a $550M Series E (D1 Capital + Spark). It booked ~$124M revenue in 2024 and in 2025 launched a NY-r...

Matan Bar, Ilan Atias, Ziv Paz

Founded 2018, Melio is a B2B accounts-payable / bill-pay platform for SMBs that processed $30B+ in FY25 on ~$153M revenue. It last raised a $150M Fiserv-led Series E at a $2B valuation, then agreed to be acq...

Nathan Allman, Pinku Surana

Founded 2021 by ex-Goldman Sachs digital-assets lead Nathan Allman, Ondo is the leading real-world-asset (RWA) tokenization platform ('Wall Street 2.0'). Its USDY tokenized Treasury note and Ondo Global Mark...

Charles Cascarilla, Rich Teo

Founded 2012, Paxos is a NYDFS-regulated blockchain-infrastructure and stablecoin issuer (USDP, PYUSD for PayPal, USDG) that has issued $120B+ in stablecoins. Valued ~$2.4B (Oak HC/FT, Founders Fund, PayPal ...

Leif Abraham, Jannick Malling

Founded 2019, Public is a multi-asset investing platform (stocks, bonds, options, crypto, Treasuries) valued at ~$2B (Accel, Greycroft, Tiger Global). In 2025 it launched direct indexing and an 'Agentic Brok...

Eric Glyman, Karim Atiyeh, Gene Lee

Founded 2019, Ramp is a corporate card + spend-management platform that has become NYC's fastest-rising fintech. It crossed $1B annualized revenue in 2025 and raised repeatedly through the year, culminating ...

Itai Damti, Doron Somech

Founded 2019, Unit is a banking-as-a-service platform that lets companies embed bank accounts, cards and payments via API. First BaaS provider to reach unicorn status — $100M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (I...

Samir Vasavada, Runik Mehrotra

Founded 2016 by then-teenage Indian-American founders Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra, Vise is an AI wealthtech platform that builds and manages custom, tax-optimized portfolios for RIAs and wealth manager...

Bo Jiang, Jason Kruse, David Nichols

Founded 2014 (rebranded from Privacy.com in 2021), Lithic is a programmable card-issuing + money-movement platform — fintech-infra letting developers spin up virtual/physical cards via API. Raised to a ~$800...

Sam Bobley, John Guerci, Victoria Meakin

Founded 2014, Ocrolus is a document-AI / fintech-infra platform automating financial-document analysis (bank statements, pay stubs, tax forms — 1,150+ doc types at 99%+ accuracy) for lending underwriting and...

Jason Gross, Andrew Endicott, David Ehrich

Founded 2016, Petal issued credit cards to thin-file / no-credit-history consumers using cash-flow underwriting. Backed by Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel), it was acquired by Empower Finance in April 2024 at a ...

Everett Cook, Alex Wheldon

Founded 2018 (HQ 100 Crosby St), Rho is an all-in-one business banking + spend-management platform for SMBs and mid-market — corporate cards, AP automation, treasury and expense management. A direct NYC comp...

Brandon Krieg, Ed Robinson

Founded 2015, Stash is a subscription micro-investing + financial-guidance app with $4.3B AUM. It raised a $146M Series H (Goodwater, USV, T. Rowe Price) in May 2025 to build its 'Money Coach AI', posted its...

Michael Bruno

Founded 2000 (Paris-origin, NYC-HQ'd) as an online luxury marketplace for high-end furniture, fine art, jewelry and design. IPO'd on Nasdaq (DIBS) in June 2021 at ~$773M valuation, raising ~$112M; a curated,...

Morgan Hermand-Waiche - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2011 as an online-first, size-inclusive lingerie brand with a subscription/showroom model challenging Victoria's Secret. Acquired by Victoria's Secret & Co. in 2022 in a deal valuing it at ~$400M. A defining NYC intimates-D2C exit. - **link:** https://www.adoreme.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Acquired (Victoria's Secret, 2022, ~$400M) ### 17 -

Founded 2011 as an online-first, size-inclusive lingerie brand with a subscription/showroom model challenging Victoria's Secret. Acquired by Victoria's Secret & Co. in 2022 in a deal valuing it at ~$400M. A ...

Morgan Hermand-Waiche

** Founded 2011 as an online-first, size-inclusive lingerie brand with a subscription/showroom model challenging Victoria's Secret. Acquired by Victoria's Secret & Co. in 2022 in a deal valuing it at ~$400M....

** NYC spacetech/defense-adjacent startup (founders Ari Rosner, Millen Anand) building software to automate radio-frequency spectrum coordination, working with US federal regulators — critical to satellite c...

critical to satellite comms and defense. Raised a $5M seed led by a16z. NOTE: name collides with a same-named fintech; this is the spectrum company. - **link:** https://www.damalion.com/space-technology-aerospace-startups-new-york-2026/ - **vertical:** ["spacetech", "defense tech", "spectrum/RF"] - **stage:** Seed ### sw-16 -

NYC spacetech/defense-adjacent startup (founders Ari Rosner, Millen Anand) building software to automate radio-frequency spectrum coordination, working with US federal regulators — critical to satellite comm...

** NYC mental-health startup — a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable N...

a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable NYC behavioral-health platform. - **link:** https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/mental-health-startup-alma-raises-130m-expand-platform/ - **vertical:** ["healthtech", "mental health", "marketplace"] - **stage:** acquired (by Spring Health) ### sw-14 -

NYC mental-health startup — a membership network + practice-management software for therapists — that raised $130M (Cigna/Optum-backed) to expand; ~$230M+ total. Later acquired by Spring Health. Notable NYC ...

Brian O'Kelley & Mike Nolet (legacy)

Founded Sept 2007 by Brian O'Kelley (a father of programmatic, ex-Right Media) and Mike Nolet in the Flatiron District. Built one of the largest independent real-time ad exchanges and DSP/SSP stacks. Acquire...

Kenny Rosenblatt & Jessica Rovello

Founded 2001 by Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello, Arkadium builds casual/HTML5 games (crosswords, solitaire, puzzles) distributed across major publishers like USA Today, The Washington Post and Microsoft...

Adam Wenchel, John Dickerson, Priscilla Alexander

Founded 2018 by ex-Capital One VP of AI Adam Wenchel, Arthur is an AI performance/observability platform — monitoring, evaluation, explainability, bias mitigation and now LLM/generative-AI guardrails for ent...

** NYC martech leader in SMS/conversational marketing (~$7B peak valuation); serial-founder team (ex-TapCommerce). Continued fundraising activity in 2025. Category-defining NYC marketing-tech scale-up.

NYC martech leader in SMS/conversational marketing (~$7B peak valuation); serial-founder team (ex-TapCommerce). Continued fundraising activity in 2025. Category-defining NYC marketing-tech scale-up. - **link...

Emin Gün Sirer, Kevin Sekniqi & Ted Yin

Founded 2018 by Cornell computer scientist Emin Gün Sirer and colleagues, Ava Labs builds the Avalanche blockchain (launched Sept 2020) and its novel Avalanche consensus. Focused on subnets/L1s for financial...

Jen Rubio & Steph Korey

** Founded 2015 by two ex-Warby Parker leaders as a D2C travel brand built on a hard-shell suitcase with a built-in battery. Scaled to a ~$1.4B valuation by 2019; CEO Jen Rubio has since navigated the brand ...

Jen Rubio & Steph Korey - **venue:** New York, NY (Lower Manhattan) - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2015 by two ex-Warby Parker leaders as a D2C travel brand built on a hard-shell suitcase with a built-in battery. Scaled to a ~$1.4B valuation by 2019; CEO Jen Rubio has since navigated the brand through post-pandemic retail expansion. HQ in Lower Manhattan. - **link:** https://www.awaytravel.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private ### 5 -

Founded 2015 by two ex-Warby Parker leaders as a D2C travel brand built on a hard-shell suitcase with a built-in battery. Scaled to a ~$1.4B valuation by 2019; CEO Jen Rubio has since navigated the brand thr...

Mark Harris & Alec Guettel

Founded 2000 in NYC. Pioneer of the alternative-legal-services (ALSP) model — on-demand, tech-enabled corporate legal talent at rates well below traditional firms, now serving 75% of the Fortune 100. Legalte...

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** Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (...

HQ flag)* - **type:** startup - **venue:** Hoboken, NJ - **la:** 40.7439 - **ln:** -74.0324 - **desc:** Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (NJ) HQ — flagged as New Jersey. Emerging govtech/proptech infrastructure play. - **link:** https://www.builtinnyc.com/articles/tech-companies-in-nj-startups - **vertical:** ["proptech", "blockchain", "govtech"] - **stage:** early-stage ### sw-18 -

Hoboken-based proptech (founded 2021) using distributed-ledger/blockchain to modernize real-estate records — security, automation, transparency and interoperability for the property ecosystem. NYC-metro (NJ)...

Dave Portnoy

Founded 2003 by Dave Portnoy as a Boston print gambling sheet; **HQ-FLAG: originated in Milton/Boston, MA and relocated to NYC** after The Chernin Group's 2016 investment. Now a NYC-based sports-and-comedy d...

Matthew Harpe, Mitchell Troyanovsky

NYC-based, Basis builds 'long-horizon' AI agents that autonomously complete accounting, tax and audit workflows end-to-end for CPA firms (used by ~30% of the top 25 firms). Raised a $100M Series B (Feb 2026,...

Tyler Denk, Benjamin Hargett & Jake Hurd

Founded 2021 by ex-Morning Brew engineers led by CEO Tyler Denk, beehiiv is a newsletter and creator-monetization platform positioning itself as 'the operating system for the creator economy.' Rapid growth (...

Vishal Garg

Founded 2014 in NYC. Digital, direct-to-consumer mortgage-origination platform (Tinman) that removes commissioned loan officers; publicly traded on Nasdaq (BETR) after a 2023 SPAC merger. Finished 2024 with ...

Vinay Menda, Issam Freiha

Founded 2020 in Williamsburg; tech-enabled small-format coffee chain built on low-cost micro-stores, a mobile app and subscriptions. Raised $67M+ in 2021 (General Catalyst, Tiger Global) and ~$114M total; ~9...

Jason Yanowitz & Michael Ippolito

Founded 2018, Blockworks is a crypto financial media, events, and data company aiming to be 'the Bloomberg of crypto' — combining news, the Permissionless conference, Blockworks Research, and institutional-g...

Fayez Mohamood, Max Bennett, Mahmoud Arram

Founded 2013; predictive retail-AI platform that unifies shopper identity, behavior and product-catalog data to personalize email, site and ad experiences. Raised a $125M Series E led by Georgian in 2021, re...

Scott & Missy Tannen - **venue:** Summit, NJ (NYC metro) - **la:** 40.7156 - **ln:** -74.3596 - **desc:** Founded 2014 in Summit, NJ, as a self-funded D2C organic-cotton, Fair-Trade-certified luxury bedding brand. Became the first luxury bedding maker certified by Fair Trade USA and expanded into ultra-luxury American-grown organic cotton lines (2024). NYC-metro home-goods leader; minority-backed by L Catterton. - **link:** https://www.bollandbranch.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 20 -

Founded 2014 in Summit, NJ, as a self-funded D2C organic-cotton, Fair-Trade-certified luxury bedding brand. Became the first luxury bedding maker certified by Fair Trade USA and expanded into ultra-luxury Am...

Scott & Missy Tannen

** Founded 2014 in Summit, NJ, as a self-funded D2C organic-cotton, Fair-Trade-certified luxury bedding brand. Became the first luxury bedding maker certified by Fair Trade USA and expanded into ultra-luxury...

David Heath & Randy Goldberg

** Founded 2013 as a D2C sock brand with a one-for-one donation model (a pair donated to shelters for every pair sold). Grew into a nine-figure apparel brand spanning socks, underwear and tees, with over 100...

David Heath & Randy Goldberg - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2013 as a D2C sock brand with a one-for-one donation model (a pair donated to shelters for every pair sold). Grew into a nine-figure apparel brand spanning socks, underwear and tees, with over 100M items donated. A category-defining NYC social-impact D2C brand. - **link:** https://bombas.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 10 -

Founded 2013 as a D2C sock brand with a one-for-one donation model (a pair donated to shelters for every pair sold). Grew into a nine-figure apparel brand spanning socks, underwear and tees, with over 100M i...

Rich & Vicki Fulop

** Founded 2014 in Brooklyn after a $50K Kickstarter, Brooklinen became a leading D2C "luxury bedding for less" brand, hitting $250K in sales in its first 30 days and scaling past $100M. Expanded into bath, ...

Rich & Vicki Fulop - **venue:** Brooklyn, NY - **la:** 40.6782 - **ln:** -73.9442 - **desc:** Founded 2014 in Brooklyn after a $50K Kickstarter, Brooklinen became a leading D2C "luxury bedding for less" brand, hitting $250K in sales in its first 30 days and scaling past $100M. Expanded into bath, loungewear and retail. A flagship Brooklyn home-goods D2C brand. - **link:** https://www.brooklinen.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 19 -

Founded 2014 in Brooklyn after a $50K Kickstarter, Brooklinen became a leading D2C "luxury bedding for less" brand, hitting $250K in sales in its first 30 days and scaling past $100M. Expanded into bath, lou...

Chris Altchek & Kareem Zaki

Founded in 2020, Cadence is a remote patient monitoring and virtual care-delivery company that partners with health systems to manage chronic conditions (hypertension, diabetes, heart failure) via connected ...

Ryan Williams

Founded 2014 in NYC. Tech-driven commercial-real-estate investment platform giving institutions and accredited individuals access to curated CRE deals at lower minimums. Raised ~$130M+ from Andreessen Horowi...

AJ Loiacono & Ryan Kelly

Founded in 2017, Capital Rx is a full-service pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) built on its Judi enterprise health platform and a transparent, NADAC-based drug-pricing model. Now expanding under the Judi Healt...

Eric Kinariwala

Founded in 2015, Capsule is a technology-driven digital pharmacy rebuilding the prescription experience with same-day hand delivery and a consumer-first design, born from the founder's frustration filling a ...

Gaurav Misra, Dwight Churchill 🇮🇳

Founded by Indian-origin founder Gaurav Misra (ex-Snap design lead), Captions is an AI video-creation platform (AI avatars, editing, dubbing) with 10M+ creators. Raised a $60M Series C in July 2024 led by In...

Jordan Nathan

** Founded 2019 as a D2C non-toxic ceramic-coated cookware brand (no PFAS/PTFE), born after the founder's own Teflon-fume poisoning scare. Grew ~500% over four years and expanded into bakeware, home and reta...

Jordan Nathan - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2019 as a D2C non-toxic ceramic-coated cookware brand (no PFAS/PTFE), born after the founder's own Teflon-fume poisoning scare. Grew ~500% over four years and expanded into bakeware, home and retail partnerships (Target, Crate & Barrel). One of NYC's breakout home/kitchen D2C brands. - **link:** https://www.carawayhome.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 8 -

Founded 2019 as a D2C non-toxic ceramic-coated cookware brand (no PFAS/PTFE), born after the founder's own Teflon-fume poisoning scare. Grew ~500% over four years and expanded into bakeware, home and retail ...

Tristan Louis

Founded 2018 in NYC as a public-benefit corporation (assets from Annie E. Casey Foundation-incubated Case Commons). SaaS platform for human-services and government agencies — child welfare, case management a...

Philip Krim, Neil Parikh, Luke Sherwin, Jeff Chapin & Gabe Flateman

** Founded 2014, Casper kicked off the "bed-in-a-box" D2C mattress wave, reaching $100M revenue in under two years. IPO'd on NYSE in 2020, then was taken private by Durational Capital in 2022. A foundational...

Philip Krim, Neil Parikh, Luke Sherwin, Jeff Chapin & Gabe Flateman - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2014, Casper kicked off the "bed-in-a-box" D2C mattress wave, reaching $100M revenue in under two years. IPO'd on NYSE in 2020, then was taken private by Durational Capital in 2022. A foundational NYC D2C brand that shaped e-commerce marketing playbooks. - **link:** https://casper.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Formerly public; private (acquired 2022) ### 11 -

Founded 2014, Casper kicked off the "bed-in-a-box" D2C mattress wave, reaching $100M revenue in under two years. IPO'd on NYSE in 2020, then was taken private by Durational Capital in 2022. A foundational NY...

Florian Otto, Arel Lidow & Kareem Zaki

Founded in 2016, Cedar is a patient financial-engagement and payments platform for hospitals, health systems and medical groups that modernizes the medical billing experience. It has raised ~$350M+ and reach...

Babba C. Rivera

** Founded 2020, a clean haircare brand rooted in Latin American heritage and ingredients, formulated and bottled in New York. Opened a Manhattan flagship/community hub in 2023 and sells at Sephora. A stando...

Babba C. Rivera - **venue:** New York, NY (Manhattan flagship) - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2020, a clean haircare brand rooted in Latin American heritage and ingredients, formulated and bottled in New York. Opened a Manhattan flagship/community hub in 2023 and sells at Sephora. A standout NYC founder-led beauty brand centering Latina consumers. - **link:** https://ceremonia.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Early/growth-stage private ### 14 -

Founded 2020, a clean haircare brand rooted in Latin American heritage and ingredients, formulated and bottled in New York. Opened a Manhattan flagship/community hub in 2023 and sells at Sephora. A standout ...

Omer Goldberg

Founded 2021 by ex-Instagram/Facebook tech lead Omer Goldberg, Chaos Labs is an automated on-chain economic-security and risk-management platform used by Aave, GMX, dYdX, and Venus to secure billions in asse...

** NYC value-based-care company delivering community-based, in-home virtual care to Medicaid/underserved populations via insurer/provider partnerships. Has raised ~$900M across 6 rounds. Major NYC health-equ...

NYC value-based-care company delivering community-based, in-home virtual care to Medicaid/underserved populations via insurer/provider partnerships. Has raised ~$900M across 6 rounds. Major NYC health-equity...

Matthew Zeiler

Founded 2013 in NYC by NYU deep-learning PhD Matthew Zeiler (winner of the 2013 ImageNet localization challenge), Clarifai is a full-stack AI platform spanning computer vision, LLMs, model orchestration and ...

Jake Brukhman & Aleksandr Bulkin

Founded 2015, CoinFund is one of the longest-running NYC crypto-native venture firms, investing across seed, venture, and liquid stages in Web3 infrastructure and protocols (portfolio incl. Solana, Polygon, ...

Robert Reffkin, Ori Allon & Avi Dorfman

Founded 2012 as Urban Compass in NYC. Tech-enabled residential real-estate brokerage with a cloud-based agent platform (CRM, marketing, transaction tools); IPO'd on NYSE (COMP) in April 2021. Now the largest...

Michael Mandel & Vadim Belobrovka

Founded 2011 in NYC. Crowdsourced commercial-real-estate data marketplace — brokers contribute lease comps and get analytics in return, sold to lenders, investors and owners. Raised a $50M Series C in 2021 (...

Joseph Lubin

Founded 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, Consensys is the leading Ethereum software studio, building MetaMask (the dominant self-custody wallet), Infura (node infrastructure), and Linea (zk-rollup L...

Ryan Simonetti & Christopher Kelly

Founded 2009 in NYC. Premium flexible-workspace, meeting and events platform operating hospitality-grade venues inside commercial buildings, partnering with landlords on tenant experience. Raised $260M+ (bac...

Angus McDonald & Chris Bayley

Founded 2014. Embedded-insurance infrastructure company — its XCover distribution platform and XClaim claims engine let e-commerce, travel and fintech partners (Booking, eBay-scale marketplaces) sell protect...

Ravin Thambapillai, Jack Fischer 🇮🇳 (South Asian / Tamil-origin)

Founded 2022 (YC W23) by two ex-Palantir engineers, Credal is a security/control plane for enterprise AI agents — connecting internal data to LLMs while redacting/anonymizing sensitive data and enforcing com...

Melissa Mash, Jessy Dover & Deepa Gandhi - **venue:** New York, NY (NoLita) - **la:** 40.7228 - **ln:** -73.9962 - **desc:** Founded 2013 by three female founders as a function-first, neoprene handbag and accessories brand solving the "organized bag" problem. Expanded into diaper bags, travel and luggage; sold D2C and at Nordstrom. A durable NYC women-led fashion-accessories brand. - **link:** https://www.dagnedover.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 18 -

Founded 2013 by three female founders as a function-first, neoprene handbag and accessories brand solving the "organized bag" problem. Expanded into diaper bags, travel and luggage; sold D2C and at Nordstrom...

Melissa Mash, Jessy Dover & Deepa Gandhi

** Founded 2013 by three female founders as a function-first, neoprene handbag and accessories brand solving the "organized bag" problem. Expanded into diaper bags, travel and luggage; sold D2C and at Nordst...

Rachel Drori

Founded 2015; subscription DTC brand shipping pre-portioned frozen smoothies, harvest bowls, flatbreads and soups nationwide. Backed by investors incl. L Catterton and celebrity backers; grew into a ~$1B+ va...

Florian Douetteau, Clément Stenac, Thomas Cabrol, Marc Batty

Founded 2013 in Paris; HQ moved to NYC (125 W 25th St) in 2015. Dataiku is an end-to-end enterprise data-science, ML and generative-AI platform (LLM Mesh, agents) for building and governing AI without heavy ...

** NYC food-tech/CPG brand behind high-protein snack bars; raised a $75M round in 2025 — the largest Series A among NYC tech startups that year — and acquired ingredient producer Epogee. Fast-scaling functio...

the largest Series A among NYC tech startups that year — and acquired ingredient producer Epogee. Fast-scaling functional-food play. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-development/new-york-tech-startups-series-a-2025/ - **vertical:** ["food tech", "CPG", "D2C"] - **stage:** Series A ($75M) ### sw-07 -

NYC food-tech/CPG brand behind high-protein snack bars; raised a $75M round in 2025 — the largest Series A among NYC tech startups that year — and acquired ingredient producer Epogee. Fast-scaling functional...

Barry Silbert

Founded 2015 by Barry Silbert, DCG is a crypto conglomerate and prolific investor with 200+ equity investments across 25+ countries. Subsidiaries include Grayscale (largest crypto asset manager by AUM) and F...

Oren Netzer & Alex Galai

Founded 2008 as a digital media measurement, verification and analytics platform covering fraud, viewability and brand safety/suitability. IPO'd on the NYSE (ticker DV) in April 2021 at a ~$4.2B market cap. ...

Piotr Dąbkowski, Mati Staniszewski

Founded 2022 by ex-Google ML engineer Dąbkowski and ex-Palantir strategist Staniszewski, ElevenLabs is the leader in generative voice/audio AI — text-to-speech, dubbing, voice cloning. Global HQ in NYC with ...

Minna Song & Tony Stoyanov

Founded 2017 (as MeetElise) in NYC. Conversational-AI platform automating leasing, resident communication and property-management workflows for multifamily housing (expanded into healthcare in 2023). Reached...

Rob Kalin, Chris Maguire, Haim Schoppik

Founded 2005; global marketplace for handmade, vintage and craft goods connecting ~9M sellers with ~90M+ buyers. IPO'd on Nasdaq (ETSY) in 2015; acquired Depop (2021) and Reverb, and remains the anchor of Br...

** NYC B2B software for senior/residential care operators; raised a $30M round in 2025. Vertical-SaaS play in eldercare/healthcare operations.

NYC B2B software for senior/residential care operators; raised a $30M round in 2025. Vertical-SaaS play in eldercare/healthcare operations. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-development/new-york-te...

Nat Turner & Zach Weinberg

Founded in 2012, Flatiron is an oncology-focused health-IT company that aggregates and structures real-world clinical data from EHRs to power cancer research and its OncoEMR software used across hundreds of ...

Henley Vazquez, Evan Frank, Jake Peters

Founded 2021; modern travel-agency platform equipping 15,000+ independent advisors with tools, training and supplier commissions (booking $2.5B+ across 180+ countries). A 2023–25 breakout: $60M Series B & C ...

Mike Novogratz

Founded 2018 by ex-Fortress/Goldman partner Mike Novogratz, Galaxy is a diversified digital-asset financial-services and investment firm (trading, asset management, prime brokerage, mining, ventures). Receiv...

Tarun Chitra, John Morrow & Rei Chiang

Founded 2018 by Cornell physics PhD Tarun Chitra (ex-D.E. Shaw), Gauntlet is a DeFi risk-management and financial-modeling firm. It runs simulations and real-time risk monitoring for major protocols (Aave, U...

** Climate/EV-materials startup that added $11.5M to its Series A in 2025 (round total $20M+; Helios Climate Ventures among investors), scaling US and Europe production for EV manufacturers. Representative 2...

Climate/EV-materials startup that added $11.5M to its Series A in 2025 (round total $20M+; Helios Climate Ventures among investors), scaling US and Europe production for EV manufacturers. Representative 2025...

Emily Weiss

** Founded 2014 out of the Into the Gloss beauty blog, Glossier pioneered community-driven, minimalist "skin-first" beauty and became a cultural D2C icon. Raised ~$266M (peak $1.8B valuation in 2021) from Se...

Emily Weiss - **venue:** New York, NY (SoHo) - **la:** 40.7233 - **ln:** -74.0020 - **desc:** Founded 2014 out of the Into the Gloss beauty blog, Glossier pioneered community-driven, minimalist "skin-first" beauty and became a cultural D2C icon. Raised ~$266M (peak $1.8B valuation in 2021) from Sequoia, IVP and Index. Now led by CEO Kyle Leahy; expanded into Sephora and physical retail after years of online-only. - **link:** https://www.glossier.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private (Series E) ### 3 -

Founded 2014 out of the Into the Gloss beauty blog, Glossier pioneered community-driven, minimalist "skin-first" beauty and became a cultural D2C icon. Raised ~$266M (peak $1.8B valuation in 2021) from Sequo...

Arun Gupta, Julian Connor & Jake Metzger

** Founded 2013 as a peer-to-peer resale marketplace for menswear, designer and streetwear, becoming the cultural hub for fashion-forward secondhand shopping. Acquired by GOAT Group in 2022, forming a resale...

Arun Gupta, Julian Connor & Jake Metzger - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2013 as a peer-to-peer resale marketplace for menswear, designer and streetwear, becoming the cultural hub for fashion-forward secondhand shopping. Acquired by GOAT Group in 2022, forming a resale network of 50M+ members across 170 countries. A key NYC fashion-tech/marketplace exit. - **link:** https://www.grailed.com - **vertical:** ["Ecommerce", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Acquired (GOAT Group, 2022) --- ## HQ flags — EXCLUDED (not NYC-metro-HQ'd) - **Allbirds** — San Francisco, CA. Public D2C footwear; SF-HQ'd. EXCLUDE. - **The RealReal** — San Francisco, CA (founded/HQ). Luxury resale; not NYC. EXCLUDE. - **Hims & Hers** — San Francisco, CA. Telehealth/D2C; SF-HQ'd (direct Ro competitor). EXCLUDE. - **Oscar Health** — New York, NY, but a health-insurance company, not a consumer/fashion-beauty brand — out of vertical scope. EXCLUDE from this pack. - **Forerunner Ventures** — San Francisco, CA. The premier consumer-brand VC (Warby Parker, Glossier, Away, Chime backer) but SF-HQ'd. EXCLUDE as an NYC record; note as key non-local investor. - **Topicals** — Los Angeles, CA. Founder Olamide Olowe is LA-based; brand HQ'd in LA, not NYC. EXCLUDE. - **Everlane / Rothy's / Cuyana / ThirdLove / Ritual** — all SF Bay Area. EXCLUDE. - **Reformation / Merit / Kosas / Our Place / Parachute / Fabletics / MeUndies** — Los Angeles. EXCLUDE. - **CaaStle** (NYC fashion-tech, clothing-as-a-service infra) — founder Christine Hunsicker charged with and pled guilty to a ~$300M investor fraud (2025–26); company collapsed. EXCLUDED as a credible ecosystem record. ### NYC-metro consumer-brand capital (context, not records) NYC-based consumer VCs / operators worth flagging on the investor side: **Lerer Hippeau** (early backer of Warby Parker, Casper, Allbirds), **Red Antler** (Brooklyn brand-building studio behind Casper, Allbirds, Brandless), **Willow Growth**, **Silas Capital**, and **VMG Partners** (bicoastal). Forerunner (SF) remains the most active non-local consumer investor in NYC brands.

Founded 2013 as a peer-to-peer resale marketplace for menswear, designer and streetwear, becoming the cultural hub for fashion-forward secondhand shopping. Acquired by GOAT Group in 2022, forming a resale ne...

Andrew Benin & Allen Dushi - **venue:** Brooklyn, NY - **la:** 40.6782 - **ln:** -73.9442 - **desc:** Launched January 2022 out of Brooklyn with single-source Spanish extra-virgin olive oil in squeeze bottles ("Drizzle" and "Sizzle"). On <$3M raised, grew into the ~5th-largest US olive oil brand, stocked in 11,000+ stores by 2025. A viral NYC F&B/CPG breakout. - **link:** https://www.graza.co - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Early/growth-stage private ### 22 -

Launched January 2022 out of Brooklyn with single-source Spanish extra-virgin olive oil in squeeze bottles ("Drizzle" and "Sizzle"). On <$3M raised, grew into the ~5th-largest US olive oil brand, stocked in ...

Andrew Benin & Allen Dushi

** Launched January 2022 out of Brooklyn with single-source Spanish extra-virgin olive oil in squeeze bottles ("Drizzle" and "Sizzle"). On <$3M raised, grew into the ~5th-largest US olive oil brand, stocked ...

Ben Lerer (legacy)

Formed 2016 as a digital-media holding company uniting Thrillist, The Dodo, NowThis and Seeker under CEO Ben Lerer, briefly a NYC digital-media powerhouse and early SPAC-era roll-up. Acquired by Vox Media in...

Jeff Raider & Andy Katz-Mayfield - **venue:** New York, NY (SoHo) - **la:** 40.7233 - **ln:** -74.0020 - **desc:** Founded 2013 by Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield as a D2C men's shaving brand, vertically integrated via its own German razor factory. A $1.37B sale to Edgewell was blocked by the FTC in 2020. Now a multi-brand consumer platform (Harry's, Flamingo, Cat Person, Lumē) headquartered in NYC. - **link:** https://www.harrys.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private ### 4 -

Founded 2013 by Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield as a D2C men's shaving brand, vertically integrated via its own German razor factory. A $1.37B sale to Edgewell was blocked by the F...

Jeff Raider & Andy Katz-Mayfield

** Founded 2013 by Warby Parker co-founder Jeff Raider and Andy Katz-Mayfield as a D2C men's shaving brand, vertically integrated via its own German razor factory. A $1.37B sale to Edgewell was blocked by th...

** NYC-based (founded 2020) enterprise AI search / knowledge-work platform used heavily in finance and law. Raised $160M+ (a16z, Index, GV, Peter Thiel, Radical Ventures). Breakout AI-for-enterprise name.

NYC-based (founded 2020) enterprise AI search / knowledge-work platform used heavily in finance and law. Raised $160M+ (a16z, Index, GV, Peter Thiel, Radical Ventures). Breakout AI-for-enterprise name. - **l...

Ju Rhyu, Dwight Lee & Andrew Lee

** Founded 2017 around a single hero SKU, the Mighty Patch hydrocolloid acne sticker, scaled largely via Amazon and mass retail. Acquired by Church & Dwight for $630M in September 2022 — one of the largest i...

Ju Rhyu, Dwight Lee & Andrew Lee - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2017 around a single hero SKU, the Mighty Patch hydrocolloid acne sticker, scaled largely via Amazon and mass retail. Acquired by Church & Dwight for $630M in September 2022 — one of the largest indie-beauty exits and a marquee NYC beauty success story. - **link:** https://www.herocosmetics.us - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Acquired (Church & Dwight, 2022, $630M) ### 16 -

Founded 2017 around a single hero SKU, the Mighty Patch hydrocolloid acne sticker, scaled largely via Amazon and mass retail. Acquired by Church & Dwight for $630M in September 2022 — one of the largest indi...

** NYC-headquartered open-source AI/ML platform and model hub, led by co-founder/CEO Clément Delangue; the default community layer for open ML development. AI-native unicorn and a cornerstone of NYC's AI inf...

NYC-headquartered open-source AI/ML platform and model hub, led by co-founder/CEO Clément Delangue; the default community layer for open ML development. AI-native unicorn and a cornerstone of NYC's AI infras...

Ben McKean

Founded 2015; AI-personalized online grocery and meal-delivery service that pairs a recommendation quiz with ready-to-heat meals and groceries. Raised ~$78M+ (Series C led by L Catterton); launched its Smart...

Peter Brodsky, Vladimir Tzankov, Krasimir Marinov

Founded 2014, Hyperscience is an AI document-processing / intelligent-automation platform (ML-based data extraction, handwriting-to-digital) for enterprises and government. Raised $439M+ across 9 rounds; HQ ...

Noam Solomon & Luis Voloch

Founded in 2018, Immunai combines single-cell biology and machine learning to map the human immune system and accelerate immunotherapy and drug development, having built one of the largest proprietary clinic...

Zvika Netter, Tal Chalozin & Zack Zigdon

Founded 2007, Innovid is an independent CTV ad-serving, creative and measurement platform serving 40%+ of the top-200 US TV advertisers. Went public on the NYSE (ticker CTV) via SPAC in Dec 2021 and acquired...

founded 2009 (as AdSafe Media)

Founded 2009 (originally AdSafe Media), IAS is a publicly traded ad-verification and media-quality company measuring fraud, viewability and brand risk via its proprietary TRAQ score. IPO'd on Nasdaq (IAS) in...

** NYC HR-tech/PEO platform for SMBs (payroll, benefits, compliance), ~$163M raised; a Lower Manhattan anchor that previously filed to go public. Established NYC HR-tech scale-up.

NYC HR-tech/PEO platform for SMBs (payroll, benefits, compliance), ~$163M raised; a Lower Manhattan anchor that previously filed to go public. Established NYC HR-tech scale-up. - **link:** https://www.builti...

Allon Bloch, Ran Shaul, Israel Roth & Adam Singolda

Founded in 2016, K Health is a clinical-AI company delivering virtual primary care by comparing a patient's symptoms against a large de-identified clinical dataset, deployed through health-system partnership...

Charles Zuker, Tom Maniatis & Richard Axel

Founded in 2015 by Columbia neuroscientists (including Nobel laureate Richard Axel), Kallyope is a biotech decoding the gut-brain axis to develop oral therapeutics for metabolic, GI and CNS diseases. It laun...

Harry Kargman

Founded 2003 by Harry Kargman, Kargo is a leader in mobile and cross-screen brand advertising, pairing creative, technology and quality inventory for premium advertisers. Bootstrapped for years before privat...

Gina Bartasi, Annbeth Eschbach & Dr. Angeline Beltsos

Founded in 2018, Kindbody is a vertically integrated fertility and family-building company operating its own clinics and selling fertility benefits to employers, opening its NYC flagship in Flatiron in 2019....

Mark Harris & Alec Guettel

Founded ~2019 in NYC, spun out of Axiom by its co-founders into a joint venture with LexisNexis. AI platform that ingests and structures executed contracts/agreements so enterprises can search obligations, m...

Luke Schoenfelder, Thomas Meyerhoffer & Brian Jones

Founded 2014 in NYC. Smart-access hardware + software (LatchOS) for apartment buildings — keyless entry, intercom, delivery and building-operations management. Went public via SPAC in 2021; after a restated-...

Daniel Schreiber & Shai Wininger

Founded 2015 in NYC. AI- and behavioral-economics-driven insurer offering renters, homeowners, pet, car, and term-life policies with an instant-quote/instant-claim chatbot model and a give-back charitable st...

Jason Karp

Founded ~2016 in NYC (spun out of a law firm, built on Salesforce). End-to-end legal operating platform for law firms and legal departments — intake, matter/case management, document automation and analytics...

Gabi Lewis & Greg Sewitz

** Founded 2019 as a D2C high-protein, zero-added-sugar, keto-friendly reinvention of childhood cereal. Raised an $85M Series B in 2022 and expanded from online-only into Target and mass grocery. A leading N...

Gabi Lewis & Greg Sewitz - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2019 as a D2C high-protein, zero-added-sugar, keto-friendly reinvention of childhood cereal. Raised an $85M Series B in 2022 and expanded from online-only into Target and mass grocery. A leading NYC better-for-you F&B D2C brand. - **link:** https://magicspoon.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private (Series B) ### 21 -

Founded 2019 as a D2C high-protein, zero-added-sugar, keto-friendly reinvention of childhood cereal. Raised an $85M Series B in 2022 and expanded from online-only into Target and mass grocery. A leading NYC ...

Scott Crouch, Matthew Polega & Florian Mayr

Founded 2012 in NYC. Cloud public-safety software — computer-aided dispatch (CAD), records management (RMS) and analytics for police, fire and EMS agencies. Raised a $101M Series E (Tiger Global, Spruce Hous...

Kate Ryder

Founded in 2014, Maven is the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health, spanning fertility, maternity, menopause and pediatrics. It became femtech's first unicorn and later raised a $90M Series E...

Joe Zawadzki (legacy)

Founded 2007 by Joe Zawadzki, MediaMath pioneered the demand-side platform (DSP) category and was a defining NYC adtech unicorn, raising ~$600M at a $1B+ peak valuation. Filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Ju...

Ryan Selkis & Dan McArdle

Founded 2018 to bring transparency to crypto markets, Messari is a crypto asset data, research, and intelligence platform and host of the Mainnet conference. NOTE: Messari was acquired by fellow NYC firm Blo...

Aaron Block & Zach Aarons

Founded 2015 in NYC. The premier proptech-focused VC — operates one of the largest global proptech seed funds (~$100M+) and a Columbia University-based accelerator, with 175+ real-estate-tech investments acr...

Lauren Santo Domingo & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2010 as a luxury fashion e-commerce pioneer built on the "online trunk show" — letting shoppers pre-order full designer collections straight off the runway. Carries 1,000+ brands across fashion, fine jewelry, home and beauty. A defining NYC luxury-commerce platform. - **link:** https://www.modaoperandi.com - **vertical:** ["Ecommerce", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private ### 27 -

Founded 2010 as a luxury fashion e-commerce pioneer built on the "online trunk show" — letting shoppers pre-order full designer collections straight off the runway. Carries 1,000+ brands across fashion, fine...

Lauren Santo Domingo & Áslaug Magnúsdóttir

** Founded 2010 as a luxury fashion e-commerce pioneer built on the "online trunk show" — letting shoppers pre-order full designer collections straight off the runway. Carries 1,000+ brands across fashion, f...

Erik Bernhardsson, Akshat Bubna 🇮🇳

Founded 2021 by ex-Spotify/Better CTO Erik Bernhardsson and Indian-origin ex-Scale engineer Akshat Bubna, Modal is a serverless AI-infrastructure platform giving developers instant GPU compute for inference/...

Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, Kevin Ryan (CEO Dev Ittycheria 🇮🇳)

NYC-founded and HQ'd public database company now central to the AI stack: Atlas Vector Search enables semantic search/RAG on the same platform. Acquired embeddings/reranking startup Voyage AI (2025) to nativ...

Alex Lieberman & Austin Rief

Founded 2015 (out of University of Michigan, first newsletter 2015) by Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief, Morning Brew built a business-news newsletter empire with millions of subscribers. Acquired by Insider I...

Vivek Sharma & Michael Nutt

Founded 2010, Movable Ink powers AI-driven content personalization that assembles customized email, app and web creative in real time at open. Reached a reported ~$1.3B valuation with ~$73M+ ARR; raised from...

Sina Chehrazi & Akash Magoon

Founded 2019 in NYC. AI benefits-experience platform that matches employees to the right health/insurance and supplemental plans using billions of claims and cost data points, distributed through employers a...

Alexi Nazem, Kevin Ryan, Ryan Grant, Maxwell Laurans & Zander Pease

Founded in 2015, Nomad Health is an online marketplace that directly connects nurses and clinicians with healthcare facilities for travel and per-diem jobs, removing third-party staffing agencies. It scaled ...

John Nay

Founded by John Nay (ex-Stanford CodeX fellow), Norm Ai converts regulations, laws and corporate policies into compliance AI agents for finance and regulated industries; clients collectively manage $30T+ in ...

Oran Holtzman & Shiran Holtzman-Erez

** NYC-headquartered consumer-tech/beauty platform founded 2018; scaled Il Makiage past $250M revenue in three years using an AI/data-driven online quiz-to-shade model, then launched SpoiledChild (wellness)....

Oran Holtzman & Shiran Holtzman-Erez - **venue:** New York, NY (HQ; R&D in Tel Aviv) - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** NYC-headquartered consumer-tech/beauty platform founded 2018; scaled Il Makiage past $250M revenue in three years using an AI/data-driven online quiz-to-shade model, then launched SpoiledChild (wellness). IPO'd on Nasdaq (ODD) in July 2023 at a ~$2.3B valuation. The clearest example of NYC "beauty-tech." - **link:** https://oddity.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Public (Nasdaq: ODD) ### 12 -

NYC-headquartered consumer-tech/beauty platform founded 2018; scaled Il Makiage past $250M revenue in three years using an AI/data-driven online quiz-to-shade model, then launched SpoiledChild (wellness). IP...

Dane Atkinson

Founded 2019; supply-chain, ordering and operations platform for 14,000+ independent cafes, coffee shops and food businesses (Blank Street, Van Leeuwen, Aroma Joe's). A 2023–25 breakout: raised a $53M round ...

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** Vertical-farming agtech growing premium strawberries and tomatoes; in 2024 opened a 237,500 SF solar-powered facility in Phillipsburg, NJ. NYC-metro-area (NJ) HQ — flagged as New Jersey, not NYC-city. Lea...

HQ flag)* - **type:** startup - **venue:** Jersey City metro / Phillipsburg, NJ - **la:** 40.7178 - **ln:** -74.0431 - **desc:** Vertical-farming agtech growing premium strawberries and tomatoes; in 2024 opened a 237,500 SF solar-powered facility in Phillipsburg, NJ. NYC-metro-area (NJ) HQ — flagged as New Jersey, not NYC-city. Leading indoor-ag brand in the region. - **link:** https://www.builtinnyc.com/articles/tech-companies-in-nj-startups - **vertical:** ["agtech", "vertical farming", "food tech"] - **stage:** growth-stage private ### sw-17 -

Vertical-farming agtech growing premium strawberries and tomatoes; in 2024 opened a 237,500 SF solar-powered facility in Phillipsburg, NJ. NYC-metro-area (NJ) HQ — flagged as New Jersey, not NYC-city. Leadin...

Noah Glass

Founded 2005 (as GoMobo); open SaaS digital-ordering, delivery and payments platform powering 700+ restaurant brands (Wingstop, Shake Shack, Sweetgreen). IPO'd on NYSE (OLO) in March 2021 at a ~$3.6B valuati...

Vanessa Pham & Kim Pham - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2020 by two sisters (ex-VC/consulting) to reclaim Asian flavors via shelf-stable "starter" sauce kits; sold out within 72 hours of launch. Expanded into noodles and retail (Whole Foods, Target). Acquired by DayDayCook in 2024. A notable NYC AAPI-founded F&B brand. - **link:** https://omsom.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Acquired (DayDayCook, 2024) ### 23 -

Founded 2020 by two sisters (ex-VC/consulting) to reclaim Asian flavors via shelf-stable "starter" sauce kits; sold out within 72 hours of launch. Expanded into noodles and retail (Whole Foods, Target). Acqu...

Vanessa Pham & Kim Pham

** Founded 2020 by two sisters (ex-VC/consulting) to reclaim Asian flavors via shelf-stable "starter" sauce kits; sold out within 72 hours of launch. Expanded into noodles and retail (Whole Foods, Target). A...

Devin Finzer & Alex Atallah

Founded Dec 2017 (launched 2018), OpenSea became the world's largest NFT marketplace, making Finzer and Atallah the first NFT billionaires in Jan 2022 at a $13.3B valuation. Has since expanded into a broader...

Zack Gray & Mattan Griffel

Founded in 2019 (Y Combinator-backed), Ophelia provides telehealth medication-assisted treatment (Suboxone/buprenorphine) for opioid use disorder, replacing traditional rehab with at-home, insurance-covered ...

Josh Kushner, Mario Schlosser & Kevin Nazemi

Founded 2012 in NYC by three HBS classmates. Technology-first health-insurance company built around telemedicine, transparent pricing and a consumer-friendly app; a leading ACA-marketplace insurer that also ...

Dan Porter & Zack Weiner

Founded 2016 by Dan Porter (ex-WME head of digital) and Zack Weiner, Overtime is a Gen-Z sports-media brand that expanded into owned leagues — Overtime Elite (basketball) and OT7 (football). Raised ~$219M fr...

Thomas Fuchs, David Klimstra & Leo Grady

Founded in 2017 as a spinout of Memorial Sloan Kettering, Paige (Pathology AI Guidance Engine) builds AI for digital pathology and cancer diagnosis, trained on MSK's licensed slide archive. It earned the FDA...

Cami Téllez & Jack DeFuria

** Founded 2019 as a Gen-Z, size-inclusive, colorful basics/underwear brand that became "the internet's favorite underwear," backed by Karlie Kloss and Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal. Acquired 2023 by Ariela...

Cami Téllez & Jack DeFuria - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2019 as a Gen-Z, size-inclusive, colorful basics/underwear brand that became "the internet's favorite underwear," backed by Karlie Kloss and Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal. Acquired 2023 by Ariela & Associates International. NOTE: brand wound down / announced closure in October 2025 — include as a notable ecosystem alum, not an active company. - **link:** https://yourparade.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Acquired (2023) / closed (2025) ### 9 -

Founded 2019 as a Gen-Z, size-inclusive, colorful basics/underwear brand that became "the internet's favorite underwear," backed by Karlie Kloss and Warby Parker's Neil Blumenthal. Acquired 2023 by Ariela & ...

John Foley, Tom Cortese, Hisao Kushi & co.

Founded 2012; connected-fitness company selling internet-enabled bikes/treads with a subscription live/on-demand class platform. IPO'd on Nasdaq (PTON) in 2019 and boomed during the pandemic; has since restr...

Alex Vratskides, Assaf Baciu, Moray Maclennan, Guy Krief

Founded 2012 in NYC, Persado is a 'Motivation AI' generative-language platform that generates and optimizes marketing copy at scale, trained on 1M+ A/B tests. An early NYC GenAI leader used by JPMorgan Chase...

Edo Liberty

Founded 2019 by Edo Liberty (ex-Head of Amazon AI Labs), Pinecone is the leading managed vector database powering RAG and knowledgeable AI apps — core GenAI infrastructure. Raised $100M Series B (a16z, ICONI...

Jennifer Fitzgerald & Francois de Lame

Founded 2014 in NYC by two former McKinsey consultants. Online insurance marketplace pairing digital comparison tools with licensed agents across life, disability, home and auto. Acquired by Eldridge-backed ...

** NYC AI-powered analytics startup that raised ~$30M in 2025. Data/AI analytics play surfacing in the 2025 NYC Series A cohort.

NYC AI-powered analytics startup that raised ~$30M in 2025. Data/AI analytics play surfacing in the 2025 NYC Series A cohort. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-development/new-york-tech-startups-se...

Basha Rubin & Mirra Levitt

Founded 2013 in NYC by two Yale Law alumnae. Marketplace + software for corporate/in-house legal teams to source, engage and manage vetted outside counsel and specialized attorneys, with AI-assisted matching...

David Schlanger, Gina Bartasi (early) (CEO Peter Anevski)

Progyny is a fertility and family-building benefits manager sold to employers, offering a curated clinic network and member support. In 2019 it became the first fertility-benefits company to go public (Nasda...

Jon Kelly, Joe Purzycki, Liz Gough, Julia Ioffe & Max Tcheyan

Founded 2021, Puck is a subscription digital-media company built around named-writer journalists covering the 'four centers of power' — Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Washington and Wall Street. A leading model ...

Michael Martin & Nicholas Horelik

Founded 2012 in NYC. Emergency-response data platform linking connected devices, apps and sensors to 911 centers so first responders get precise location and richer incident data. The most-funded NYC govtech...

Charles Gorra - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2014 as a luxury handbag/accessories resale platform combining e-commerce, stores (NY, LA, Miami) and instant AI-powered buyouts/trade-ins (Clair "Shazam for handbags"). A leading NYC fashion-tech/resale player bringing data and instant liquidity to the secondhand luxury market. - **link:** https://www.rebag.com - **vertical:** ["Ecommerce", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 26 -

Founded 2014 as a luxury handbag/accessories resale platform combining e-commerce, stores (NY, LA, Miami) and instant AI-powered buyouts/trade-ins (Clair "Shazam for handbags"). A leading NYC fashion-tech/re...

Charles Gorra

** Founded 2014 as a luxury handbag/accessories resale platform combining e-commerce, stores (NY, LA, Miami) and instant AI-powered buyouts/trade-ins (Clair "Shazam for handbags"). A leading NYC fashion-tech...

Jennifer Hyman & Jennifer Fleiss

** Founded 2009 to rent designer apparel online, pioneering "closet in the cloud" fashion-as-a-service and reverse logistics at scale. IPO'd on Nasdaq (RENT) in 2021 — Jennifer Hyman became the first woman t...

Jennifer Hyman & Jennifer Fleiss - **venue:** Brooklyn, NY (Navy Yard) - **la:** 40.6782 - **ln:** -73.9442 - **desc:** Founded 2009 to rent designer apparel online, pioneering "closet in the cloud" fashion-as-a-service and reverse logistics at scale. IPO'd on Nasdaq (RENT) in 2021 — Jennifer Hyman became the first woman to take public a company with an all-female executive suite. Operates a large Brooklyn HQ and dry-cleaning/logistics operation. - **link:** https://www.renttherunway.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Ecommerce"] - **stage:** Public (Nasdaq: RENT) ### 6 -

Founded 2009 to rent designer apparel online, pioneering "closet in the cloud" fashion-as-a-service and reverse logistics at scale. IPO'd on Nasdaq (RENT) in 2021 — Jennifer Hyman became the first woman to t...

Frank Reig, Paul Suhey

Founded 2018; began as a shared electric-moped service, then pivoted (2023) to all-EV rideshare and public fast-charging infrastructure in NYC and the Bay Area. Raised ~$126M (2021) and pursued a ~$200M roun...

Zachariah Reitano, Saman Rahmanian & Rob Schutz - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Launched 2017 as Roman, a D2C telehealth brand for men's health (ED, hair loss), later expanding to women's health, weight management (GLP-1s) and at-home diagnostics. Reached a $7B valuation in 2022. A defining NYC consumer-health/D2C unicorn blending telemedicine, pharmacy and brand. - **link:** https://ro.co - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private (unicorn) ### 7 -

Launched 2017 as Roman, a D2C telehealth brand for men's health (ED, hair loss), later expanding to women's health, weight management (GLP-1s) and at-home diagnostics. Reached a $7B valuation in 2022. A defi...

Zachariah Reitano, Saman Rahmanian & Rob Schutz

Launched in 2017 as 'Roman,' Ro is a direct-to-consumer telehealth company that diagnoses, prescribes and delivers treatment and ongoing care across men's health, women's health, weight management (GLP-1s) a...

Sam Houser, Dan Houser, Terry Donovan, Jamie King & Gary Foreman

Founded 1998 in NYC (a Take-Two label), Rockstar is one of the world's most influential game studios — creators of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. Grand Theft Auto VI is among the most anticipated ...

Gabriel Stengel, John Willett, Tumas Rackaitis

Founded 2022 by ex-Lazard banker Gabriel Stengel and two Princeton peers, Rogo is agentic GenAI for financial services — an 'AI analyst/investment banker' automating Wall Street research and modeling. Raised...

Bruce Buchanan

NYC-HQ'd (Sydney-founded, 2012) AI ecommerce-optimization platform that personalizes the transaction/checkout moment for retailers and marketplaces. Reached a $3.5B valuation in a Jan 2025 $335M secondary (T...

Cristóbal Valenzuela, Anastasis Germanidis, Alejandro Matamala

Founded 2018 by three NYU Tisch/ITP grads, Runway is the pioneer of generative AI video (Gen-1/2/3/4 models) letting creatives generate and edit video from text and brushstrokes. A defining NYC media-AI brea...

** NYC-based generative-AI video/media company. Raised $308M in April 2025 (~$3B+ valuation) and has raised $540M+ total (General Atlantic, Google, Nvidia, Coatue, Felicis, Amplify). In 2026 launched a $10M ...

NYC-based generative-AI video/media company. Raised $308M in April 2025 (~$3B+ valuation) and has raised $540M+ total (General Atlantic, Google, Nvidia, Coatue, Felicis, Amplify). In 2026 launched a $10M fun...

Laney Crowell - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2019 by an Estée Lauder alum as a clean, sustainable "skinimalist" makeup brand (Slip Tint, Dew Balm) sold D2C and at Sephora. A leading NYC clean-beauty breakout known for community-led product development and B-Corp-style sustainability positioning. - **link:** https://www.saiehello.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 13 -

Founded 2019 by an Estée Lauder alum as a clean, sustainable "skinimalist" makeup brand (Slip Tint, Dew Balm) sold D2C and at Sephora. A leading NYC clean-beauty breakout known for community-led product deve...

Laney Crowell

** Founded 2019 by an Estée Lauder alum as a clean, sustainable "skinimalist" makeup brand (Slip Tint, Dew Balm) sold D2C and at Sephora. A leading NYC clean-beauty breakout known for community-led product d...

Sandro Roco - **venue:** Queens, NY - **la:** 40.7282 - **ln:** -73.7949 - **desc:** Founded 2019 in Queens as the first Asian-inspired flavored sparkling water (lychee, calamansi, mango), with no added sugar. Scaled through Target's accelerator, Whole Foods and a Disney/Pixar "Turning Red" partnership. A fast-growing NYC Filipino-American-founded beverage brand. - **link:** https://drinksanzo.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Early/growth-stage private ### 24 -

Founded 2019 in Queens as the first Asian-inspired flavored sparkling water (lychee, calamansi, mango), with no added sugar. Scaled through Target's accelerator, Whole Foods and a Disney/Pixar "Turning Red" ...

Sandro Roco

** Founded 2019 in Queens as the first Asian-inspired flavored sparkling water (lychee, calamansi, mango), with no added sugar. Scaled through Target's accelerator, Whole Foods and a Disney/Pixar "Turning Re...

Richard Friesner (CEO Ramy Farid)

Founded in 1990 by Columbia chemist Richard Friesner, Schrödinger builds physics-based computational software for molecular modeling and now runs its own AI-plus-physics drug-discovery pipeline and partnersh...

Jack Groetzinger, Russ D'Souza

Founded 2009; mobile-first ticketing marketplace and primary-ticketing platform (Deal Score search). A 2020 RedBall SPAC merger (~$1.35B EV) was terminated; filed confidentially for an IPO in 2023 and remain...

Ben Smith & Justin Smith

Founded 2022 by Ben Smith (ex-BuzzFeed News editor-in-chief, NYT media columnist) and Justin B. Smith (ex-CEO Bloomberg Media), Semafor is a global news startup with a distinctive 'Semaform' article structur...

Harry Rein, Tiffany Lopinsky, Chris Tinsley

Founded 2020; creator/curated-commerce infrastructure connecting premium brands, tastemakers and shoppers, facilitating $1B+ in annual sales. A 2023–25 breakout: $77.5M Series B (Jan 2025) then $70M at a $1....

Jon Oringer

Founded 2002 by programmer-photographer Jon Oringer, Shutterstock is a global stock photography, video, music and creative-tools marketplace (200M+ assets). IPO'd on the NYSE in 2012; expanded into AI/genera...

Dave Morgan

Founded 2008 by adtech veteran Dave Morgan (earlier founder of TACODA/Real Media), Simulmedia is a data-driven TV and streaming ad-targeting platform; its TV+ product buys across linear and CTV. Raised ~$87M...

Alex Schmelkin, Jane Tran, Brian Moseley

Founded 2023, Sixfold builds generative-AI underwriting for P&C insurers — an 'AI Underwriter' that automates risk assessment with straight-through quote-and-bind. Processed 1M+ submissions across 40+ lines ...

Ilir Sela

Founded 2010; ordering, marketing and POS technology that helps 20,000+ independent pizzerias compete with national chains. Bootstrapped early, then raised $100M+ (GGV, KKR, Primary Venture Partners); a vert...

April Koh, Adam Chekroud & Abhishek Chandra

Founded in 2016 by Yale researchers, Spring Health is an AI-powered mental health platform for employers that matches members to coaching, therapy and psychiatry via its Precision Mental Healthcare engine. I...

Anthony Casalena

Founded 2003; all-in-one website-builder and commerce platform for creators and SMBs (sites, domains, payments, Acuity, Tock). Direct-listed on NYSE (SQSP) in 2021; taken private by Permira in a ~$7B+ deal c...

Evan Beard, David Golden, James Cordle

NYC-metro (Long Island) maker of AI-native, no-code robot arms and industrial humanoids trained by demonstration for machining, welding, assembly and inspection. Positioned as America's largest AI-native ind...

** NYC AI startup for government and education markets (public-sector go-to-market intelligence); raised a $42M Series A in 2025. Govtech/edtech-adjacent breakout.

NYC AI startup for government and education markets (public-sector go-to-market intelligence); raised a $42M Series A in 2025. Govtech/edtech-adjacent breakout. - **link:** https://vanguard-x.com/software-de...

Julie Schott & Brian Bordainick - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2019 by a former Elle beauty editor, Starface turned hydrocolloid acne patches into playful star-shaped stickers, making acne "Instagrammable" for Gen Z. Reportedly ~$90M annual revenue by 2024 and landed a $105M minority investment. A viral NYC beauty-tech/skincare breakout. - **link:** https://starface.world - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Growth-stage private ### 15 -

Founded 2019 by a former Elle beauty editor, Starface turned hydrocolloid acne patches into playful star-shaped stickers, making acne "Instagrammable" for Gen Z. Reportedly ~$90M annual revenue by 2024 and l...

Julie Schott & Brian Bordainick

** Founded 2019 by a former Elle beauty editor, Starface turned hydrocolloid acne patches into playful star-shaped stickers, making acne "Instagrammable" for Gen Z. Reportedly ~$90M annual revenue by 2024 an...

Adam Singolda

Founded 2007 by Adam Singolda (still CEO). Runs a content-recommendation and native-advertising platform that places 'you may also like' feeds across thousands of publisher sites. Went public on Nasdaq in 20...

Ali Hussain, Rebecca Schwartz, Deepak Bapat 🇮🇳

Founded 2023, Tabs uses AI agents to automate B2B revenue/accounts-receivable workflows (contract-to-cash, billing, collections) for finance teams; Indian-origin co-founder/CTO Deepak Bapat. Raised a $55M Se...

Ryan Brant

Founded 1993 by Ryan Brant, Take-Two is a global interactive-entertainment publisher and the NYC-HQ'd parent of Rockstar Games and 2K (GTA, Red Dead, NBA 2K, Borderlands). Acquired Zynga for ~$12.7B in 2022,...

Oren Frank & Roni Frank

Founded in 2012, Talkspace is an online and mobile behavioral-health company connecting members to licensed therapists and psychiatrists via text, audio and video, with growing employer and health-plan cover...

Anton Katz & Ethan Feldman

Founded 2018, Talos is institutional digital-asset trading infrastructure — a unified OEMS/PMS and data platform spanning the full trade lifecycle for brokers, lenders, and investors. Backed by a16z and Gene...

Brett Podolsky & Jonathan Regev

** Founded 2014 as a D2C fresh, human-grade dog-food subscription with personalized portions. Reached ~$1.2B annualized net revenue and turned profitable by 2024 (up ~50% YoY), one of the largest D2C subscri...

Brett Podolsky & Jonathan Regev - **venue:** New York, NY - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2014 as a D2C fresh, human-grade dog-food subscription with personalized portions. Reached ~$1.2B annualized net revenue and turned profitable by 2024 (up ~50% YoY), one of the largest D2C subscription businesses to come out of NYC. Backed by Insight Partners. - **link:** https://www.thefarmersdog.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Late-stage private (unicorn) ### 25 -

Founded 2014 as a D2C fresh, human-grade dog-food subscription with personalized portions. Reached ~$1.2B annualized net revenue and turned profitable by 2024 (up ~50% YoY), one of the largest D2C subscripti...

Steven Gutentag & Demetri Karagas

Founded in 2017, Thirty Madison is a family of condition-specific telehealth brands—Keeps (hair loss), Cove (migraine), Nurx (sexual & women's health) and more. A $140M Series C valued it at ~$1B (unicorn). ...

Joshua Kushner

Founded 2010 in NYC. Generalist but highly relevant here — Kushner co-founded Oscar Health and Thrive was an early backer of Oscar and Compass, alongside stakes across fintech/insurtech. A defining NYC ventu...

Carolyn Witte & Felicity Yost

Founded in 2017, Tia is a women's health provider blending gynecology, primary care, mental health and wellness in one 'Whole Woman, Whole Life' model across virtual and brick-and-mortar clinics, opening its...

Kevin Segalla & Dan Sherman

Founded 2012 as Tilting Point Media, this NYC-HQ'd free-to-play mobile game publisher pioneered a 'progressive publishing' model — funding user acquisition and co-development for studios. 200+ staff across N...

** NYC AI SaaS helping home-service SMBs run their online presence/marketing; closed a $27M Series B in Aug 2025 led by Northzone (Tactile Ventures, Industry Ventures). SMB-AI vertical software.

NYC AI SaaS helping home-service SMBs run their online presence/marketing; closed a $27M Series B in Aug 2025 led by Northzone (Tactile Ventures, Industry Ventures). SMB-AI vertical software. - **link:** htt...

Hayden Adams

Founded 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap Labs builds the leading decentralized exchange protocol and the largest AMM in DeFi, plus the Uniswap web app, wallet, and Unichain L2. One of the most-used crypto appli...

Gary Vaynerchuk & AJ Vaynerchuk

Founded 2009 by Gary and AJ Vaynerchuk, VaynerMedia is a social-first global creative and media agency that helped define influencer/creator marketing and platform-native content. Now a multi-thousand-person...

Daniel Ramot, Oren Shoval

Founded 2012; TransitTech platform selling software to cities and agencies to run on-demand shared transit, paratransit and school-bus routing (rather than a consumer ride-hail app). Raised $1.25B+ over its ...

Jake Lodwick & Zach Klein

Founded 2004 by Jake Lodwick and Zach Klein, Vimeo pivoted from a creator video-sharing site into a video-software/SaaS platform for businesses. Spun out of IAC as an independent public company (Nasdaq: VMEO...

Lewis Cantley, Olivier Elemento & Samuel Bakhoum

Founded circa 2020 out of Weill Cornell / MSK research, Volastra develops cancer drugs targeting chromosomal instability (CIN), present in 60-80% of tumors. It in-licensed a clinical-stage KIF18A inhibitor w...

Nick Romito & Ryan Masiello

Founded 2011 (as View The Space) in NYC. Leading commercial-real-estate leasing, asset-management and tenant-experience platform for landlords and brokers; the data layer now spans billions of sq ft of CRE, ...

Neil Blumenthal, Dave Gilboa, Andrew Hunt & Jeffrey Raider

** Founded 2010 by four Wharton MBAs as a direct-to-consumer eyewear brand undercutting Luxottica pricing with $95 glasses and a buy-a-pair/give-a-pair model. Went public on NYSE (WRBY) in 2021 and now runs ...

Neil Blumenthal, Dave Gilboa, Andrew Hunt & Jeffrey Raider - **venue:** New York, NY (SoHo / Hudson Yards HQ) - **la:** 40.7128 - **ln:** -74.0060 - **desc:** Founded 2010 by four Wharton MBAs as a direct-to-consumer eyewear brand undercutting Luxottica pricing with $95 glasses and a buy-a-pair/give-a-pair model. Went public on NYSE (WRBY) in 2021 and now runs ~276 retail stores. Full-year 2024 net revenue rose 15% to $771.3M, and the company reached profitability — the reference template for NYC D2C. - **link:** https://www.warbyparker.com - **vertical:** ["D2C", "Consumer brands"] - **stage:** Public (NYSE: WRBY) ### 2 -

Founded 2010 by four Wharton MBAs as a direct-to-consumer eyewear brand undercutting Luxottica pricing with $95 glasses and a buy-a-pair/give-a-pair model. Went public on NYSE (WRBY) in 2021 and now runs ~27...

** NYC HR-tech startup automating payroll, tax and multi-state compliance with AI. Raised an $18M Series A in 2025 led by Sound Ventures (with Y Combinator and Dropbox co-founder angels). Emerging HR/payroll...

NYC HR-tech startup automating payroll, tax and multi-state compliance with AI. Raised an $18M Series A in 2025 led by Sound Ventures (with Y Combinator and Dropbox co-founder angels). Emerging HR/payroll-au...

Marc Lore

Founded 2016; vertically integrated 'super app of mealtime' combining multi-restaurant food halls, delivery and (via Grubhub and Blue Apron acquisitions) a broad meal platform. Raised $700M in 2024 and $600M...

Sidd Seethepalli, Noa Flaherty, Akash Sharma 🇮🇳

Founded 2023 (YC W23) by MIT engineers Sidd Seethepalli (ex-Quora ML) and Akash Sharma (ex-McKinsey) plus Noa Flaherty (ex-DataRobot), Vellum is a NYC dev platform for building, testing, evaluating and deplo...

Mike Yavonditte, Rick Eaton, Todd Coleman & Teddy Jawde

Founded 2012, Yieldmo is an attention-based advertising and ad-format platform that uses interactive creative formats and real-time signals (its 'Attention' and 'Curated' products) to optimize outcomes. Rais...

Tomer Tagrin, Omri Cohen

NYC-HQ'd (Tel Aviv-founded, 2011) ecommerce retention-marketing suite spanning reviews, loyalty, SMS and subscriptions for 30,000+ brands (Patagonia, Steve Madden). Raised $230M Series F (2021) at a $1.4B va...

Dave Eisenberg & Ryan Orley

Founded 2018 in NYC. Seed–Series B VC specializing in real-estate, construction and retail technology; founded by Floored founder (later CBRE exec) Dave Eisenberg. Portfolio spans Matterport, Snapdocs, OpenS...

** NYC cybersecurity startup that raised a $13.5M Series A in 2025 led by Ballistic Ventures (with Silver Buckshot, Mantis VC). Automates enterprise security compliance/tooling. Notable NYC cyber name.

NYC cybersecurity startup that raised a $13.5M Series A in 2025 led by Ballistic Ventures (with Silver Buckshot, Mantis VC). Automates enterprise security compliance/tooling. Notable NYC cyber name. - **link...