Today, I take a look at the 25 startups in NYC that have raised the most amount of funding since their launches, using some publicly available data from our friends at CrunchBase. I have included some additional information as well, such as year of first funding, date of last funding, industry, number of rounds, and founding date to further the analysis. In order to maintain a focus on conventional tech startups, pharmaceutical and biotech companies were removed from the data.
Quick findings:
The most heavily funded startup in NYC has raised close to $350M TWEET THIS
72% of the most heavily funded startups in NYC raised in a round in 2013 or 2014 TWEET THIS
The median age of 25 most heavily funded startups in NYC is 6 years TWEET THIS
Oscar and Flatiron Health are the newest startups on the list of 25 top funded companies in NYC TWEET THIS
Ecommerce and #adtech dominate the 25 most funded startups in NYC TWEET THIS
The aggregate funding of this group is over $4B
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CommonBond $103.5M
Industry: Finance
Year founded: 2011
Funding rounds: 2
Date of first funding: 11/29/2012
Date of last round: 9/4/2013
Knewton $105M
Industry: Education
Year founded: 2008
Funding rounds: 5
Date of first funding: 5/21/2008
Date of last round:: 12/1/2013
ideeli $106.8M
Industry: E-Commerce
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 5
Date of first funding: 12/1/2007
Date of last round: 7/7/2013
Flywheel Sports $108.8M
Industry: sports
Year founded: 2010
Funding rounds: 1
Date of first funding: 4/17/2014Y
Date of last round: 4/17/2014
Warby Parker $115.5M
Industry: E-commerce
Year founded: 2010
Funding rounds: 5
Date of first funding: 10/27/2010
Date of last round: 12/20/2013
Yext $ 115.75M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2006
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 11/1/2006
Date of last round: 6/4/2014
Tremor Video $116.4M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2005
Funding rounds: 8
Date of first funding: 3/1/2006
Date of last round: 9/12/2011
CLEAR $116.4M
Industry: Travel
Year founded: 2003
Funding rounds: 3
Date of first funding: 1/1/2006
Date of last round: 8/19/2008
Mozido $122.16M
Industry: Enterprise Software
Year founded: 2005
Funding rounds: 3
Date of first funding: 3/14/2011
Date of last round: 5/30/2014
Tumblr $125.3M
Industry: Blogging Platforms
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 10/31/2007
Date of last round: 1/1/2012
Bonobos $127.65M
Industry: E-Commerce
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 7
Date of first funding: 9/1/2008
Date of last round: 7/2/2014
Harry’s $136.5M
Industry: Fashion
Year founded: 2011
Funding rounds: 3
Date of first funding: 8/15/2012
Date of last round: 5/22/2014
Flatiron Health $138M
Industry: Health and Wellness
Year founded: 2012
Funding rounds: 2
Date of first funding: 1/17/2013
Date of last round: 5/7/2014
Oscar $150M
Industry: Health and Wellness
Year founded: 2013
Funding rounds: 3
Date of first funding: 7/19/2013
Date of last round: 5/14/2014
Foursquare $162.35M
Industry: Location Based Services
Year founded: 2009
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 9/4/2009
Date of last round: 2/4/2014
Quirky $175.33M
Industry: Crowdsourcing
Year founded: 2009
Funding rounds: 7
Date of first funding: 7/6/2006
Date of last round: 11/13/2013
MediaMath $ 195M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 5
Date of first funding: 3/5/2008
Date of last round: 6/3/2014
Xand $200M
Industry: software
Year founded: 1999
Funding rounds: 1
Date of last round: 9/12/2013
Date of first funding: 9/12/2013
AppNexus $200.5M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 12/27/2007
Date of last round: 8/18/2014
Fotolia $225M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2005
Funding rounds: 2
Date of first funding: 5/1/2009
Date of last round: 5/16/2012
MongoDB $231.1M
Industry: Cloud Computing
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 7/21/2008
Date of last round: 10/4/2013
Gilt Groupe $236M
Industry: E-commerce
Year founded: 2007
Funding rounds: 6
Date of first funding: 11/1/2007
Date of last round: 7/19/2011
Voltari $ 273.83M
Industry: Advertising
Year founded: 2001
Funding rounds: 5
Date of first funding: 1/1/2001
Date of last round: 1/2/2008
Fab $336.33M
Industry: E-commerce
Year founded: 2011
Funding rounds: 11
Date of first funding: 1/28/2010
Date of last round: 8/12/2013
