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The tech industry is thriving in New York City, and is home to several of the world's largest startups. In this article, we explore the top 10 startups in New York City.
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Best Startup companies in New York
1. Gemini
Gemini is a next-generation cryptocurrency exchange and custodian that allows customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets. The company was founded in 2014, by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, to build a bridge to the future of money. Its goal to build a world-class digital asset exchange and custodian based in the United States.
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Website: https://gemini.com/2014
Founded: 2014
Total Funding: $423.9M
Last Funding Type: Venture - Series Unknown
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2. Chronosphere
Chronosphere is an observability platform that empowers cloud native engineering organizations to control for data volumes, rampant costs and organizational friction that comes from rapid scale and technical complexity.Chronosphere is a Series C startup with more than $255M in funding and backed by VC firms Greylock, Lux Capital General Atlantic,Founder Fund, Spark Capital, and investor Lee Fixel.The team is distributed with major hubs in New York and Vilnius.
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Website: http://www.chronosphere.io/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: $342.5M
Last Funding Type: Series C
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3. LeafLink
LeafLink is a wholesale management platform that connects cannabis brands and retailers. It helps brands and retailers who want to streamline the ordering process, simplify communication, and spend less time on busywork. With a robust online marketplace, CRM, and order management tools, LeafLink has created a centralized sales engine to helpretailers manage and grow their business.LeafLink was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, New York. It serves over 1,200 brands and 3,500 retailers across 22 territories in the US and Canada
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Website: http://leaflink.com/
Founded: 2016
Total Funding: $479M
Last Funding Type: Series D
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4. Squire
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Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers nationwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps.Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments andbetter market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business.With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry nationwide.For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.
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Website: http://www.getsquire.com/
Founded: 2015
Total Funding: $167.1M
Last Funding Type: Series D
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5. Dayforward
Dayforward is a provider of a life insurance platform designed to bring financial security to families. Dayforward provides life insurance policies that protect clients' income until their children reach adulthood, allowing them to maintain their current lifestyle.
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Website: http://www.dayforward.com/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: $45M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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6. Esusu Financial
Esusu is a financial technology platform that leverages data solutions to help residents and improve property performance. Esusu was created on the premise that no matter where you come from, the color of your skin, and your financial identity should never determine where you end up in life. This allows renters to build and establish their creditscores while helping property owners mitigate against initiating evictions, powered by differentiated data and insights.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.
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Website: http://www.esusurent.com/
Founded: 2016
Total Funding: $145M
Last Funding Type: Series B
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7. Lavender
Lavender is an AI email assistant. It combines everything needed to easily write emails that get replies.Lavender provides real time AI-driven coaching, prospect research, email confirmation, checking if an email will land in SPAM, seeing how it looks on mobile, plus much more.SDRs and AEs from the world's largest companies use Lavender toboost opens and double replies.
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Website: https://www.lavender.ai/
Founded: 2020
Total Funding: $13.2M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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8. Elementus
Elementus offers a analytics platform that brings cognition to the blockchain's native transparency. Elementus surfaces actionable insights directly from blockchain activity, identifying security vulnerabilities, exposing bad actors, and providing market intelligence for making informed investments in digital assets, allowing clients to bringmore transparency to the blockchain ecosystem by building trust and accountability across the crypto markets in the process.
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Website: https://elementus.io/
Founded: 2018
Total Funding: $26.3M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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9. Levels
Levels develops a health and wellness platform designed to monitor metabolic fitness. The platform tracks blood glucose in real-time, enabling users to optimize their diet and exercise. The company was founded in 2019 and is a remote-first company.
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Website: https://levelshealth.com/
Founded: 2019
Total Funding: $57M
Last Funding Type: Series A
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10. OpenWeb
OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users eachmonth. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online.Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures.
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Website: https://www.openweb.com/
Founded: 2015
Total Funding: $393M
Last Funding Type: Series F
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