The UN came to town and we didn’t want to go north of 34th street edition…
With so much going on in the city’s thriving ecosystem, it is easy to miss some of the happenings in the space. We keep you abreast of a few of things that you may have missed in NYC Tech this week including the fundings, exits, and events.
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Photo editing platform, Aviary, has been acquired by Adobe for undisclosed financial terms.
“We will continue to support and enhance Aviary’s SDK as part of Adobe’s broader Creative SDK offering…while ensuring no interruption to Aviary’s developer community, or their apps’ users,” said Aviary CEO Tobias Peggs in the company’s blog. The company’s had raised a total of $19 million in funding, including a recent $2 million debt round. The company’s investors include Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Vision Ventures, Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito, Thomas Lehrman, and Payman Pouladdej.
We published a list of 50 VCs in NYC You Need to Know About and it was quite popular. You can see the entire list here – 50 NYC VCs You Need to Know About
Our friends at The New York Venture Capital Association held a network reception for their upcoming Ingenuity conference, which will be a gathering of the most respected VCs and entrepreneurs in the ecosystem.
Whoa, baby! Tiggly, whose Tiggly Shapes are the first interactive iPad toys designed for toddlers, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding led by Habermaass GmbH, a Germany-based early play and learning company and owners of the toy brand HABA, which is now entering the U.S. edtech market.
According to Crunchbase, the company just closed their $4 Million Series A.
Google hosted dignitaries and startups from the Visegrad4 (that’s Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, including the Presidents of both Hungary and Slovakia), to discuss their countries’ tech initiatives and why New York was so important to the bloc.
Our favorite new technology that was showcased (wait for it….)
The Aeromobile and yes, it is a flying car.
Authorea, a collaborative research platform designed to help scientific researchers write and manage scholarly documents, has raised $610,000 in seed funding led by ff Venture Capital and the NY Angels.
Our founder analyzed some statistics about how the presence of a woman on a founding team affects capital raises for startups in NYC. You can read the entire piece here – The Truth Behind Women and Funding in NYC
At the Maker Faire NYC event held on September 20-21, Jeff Leonard stood out as an artist among technologists. His works are painted by a 2D printing machine – reminiscent of a high-tech version of our childhood Spin Art contraption – and are based off of his programmed designs.
It’s not cricket. Wait, yes, it is! Exo, producer of protein bars made from crickets (cricket flour, actually – which is made from the little buggers), has raised $1.2 million in new seed funding from Collaborative Fund, Start Garden and author and angel investor Tim Ferriss.
“We were oversubscribed,” said Tytus Cytowski, warming up the standing room only crowd who’d gathered at AOL HQ for Polish Tech Boom: The 1st Ever Polish Startup Demo Day. “People came out of the woodworks, saying that they were Polish, and that they’d made their money on perogies and Kielbasa.”
Brand24, SocialWiFi, Monster & Devices, Momentum by Atsora and Evercode presented to investors Alessandro Piol, Partner and Co-Founder, AlphaPrime Ventures (@ilmago), John Ason, Angel Investor / Founder, Kewpie Associates (@kewpster), Susan Naci, Partner, 32 Laight Street Partners (@susnac) and Julian Counihan, Associate, Red Sea Ventures (@NYCounihan)
