10 New and Emerging NYC VC Funds Eager To Write You a Check

href=”http://www.corigin.com/”>Corigin Ventures is a Manhattan based investor of early-stage capital and support. Leveraging operational expertise and cross-industry relationships, we seek tech-enabled startups in high-growth markets led by inspirational teams. Free of limited partners or sector constraints, Corigin Ventures focuses on Seed and Series A investments.

Corigin provides capital and support for early-stage entrepreneurs and startups that leverage technology to transform the status quo of the vertical on which they focus. Corigin is a versatile group that moves fast and with conviction, and with a strong focus on team, technology, and execution. The company has two core divisions:  Corigin Real Estate Group and Corigin Private Equity Group. While they’ve been around for a few years, they fly a bit under the radar of most entrepreneurs, they’ve been more actively investing of late, so time to give them a bit of the spotlight.

NYC Management:
Ryan Freedman, Chairman and CEO 

Current Investment Team Size: 2

Sector Focus: Real Estate, Disruptive Technology

Portfolio/Investments:  7 (Poshly, Singularity University, WheelsUp, Lending Club, Urban Compass, Zeel)

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645 Ventures

645 Ventures is a seed and early-stage venture capital fund that invests in early stage software and Internet companies. The team has access to the most attractive and fastest-growing companies through their relationships with Cornell Tech and accelerators and coworking spaces throughout the city, keeping a particular focus on passionate, high caliber founders who are building software and internet businesses for inefficient and under-targeted markets.

NYC Management:
Nnamdi Okike, Cofounder & Partner
Aaron Holiday, Cofounder & Partner

Current Investment Team Size: 2

Sector Focus: Consumer internet, unconventional founders in large nascent markets

Portfolio/Investments:  15+ (Abbey Post, Poshly, Thinknum, Trendalytics, Loverly, Admittedly)

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Simon Venture Group

Simon Venture Group (SVG) is the venture capital arm of Simon, an S&P 100 company and the largest retail real estate company in the world. SVG invests in the future innovation of retail, including in-store and online shopping technology, logistics, internet of things, and data analytics. SVG makes investments between $250K-$5M+ in early stage to high growth companies (Seed through Series C+ rounds) that are both directly and indirectly strategic to Simon.

NYC Management:
J. Skyler Fernandes, Managing Director

Current Investment Team Size: 1

Sector Focus: Retail tech, logistics, delivery, data analytics, internet of things, e-commerce, real estate tech, loyalty, coupons, reviews, payment, customer service, energy, parking, security, marketing, mapping

Portfolio/Investments:  8 (Augmate, Le Tote, Shopkick)

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Vayner RSE Ventures 

VaynerRSE is a new entrant to the venture space in New York, with the coming together of RSE Ventures, a sports and entertainment holding company, and Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia.  The firm typically invests in the first round of institutional capital for startups, either as leads or as a part of a syndicate.

NYC Management:
Gary Vaynerchuk, Partner
AJ Vaynerchuk, Partner
Matt Higgins, Partner
Arne Rees, Partner

Current Investment Team Size: 5

Portfolio/Investments: 15+ (Birchbox, Namely, MakersKit, Hullabulu, Medium)

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Alpha Venture Partners

Alpha Venture Capital is a next generation growth and expansion stage venture capital firm that focuses on accelerating venture backed companies. Their self-described mission: “to serve our seed and early stage investor partners and the heroic teams they back.”
With their working relationships with established, well known venture capital firms and syndication specialists, the firm is able to opens the door to investments that were previously inaccessible, even to high net worth investors.

NYC Management:
Steve Brotman, Founder and Managing Partner
Brian Smiga, Venture Partner

Current Investment Team Size: 2

Sector Focus: Late stage investment

Portfolio/Investments: 1 (LiveIntent)

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Marker LLC

New York City and Herzliya, Israel based, Marker LLC is a venture capital and growth equity firm with an exceptional track record and a truly global perspective. Investing in seed, early stage and later stage companies, they’re on a mission to help promising companies develop into great companies, and great companies into enduring market leaders.

The partners have decades of experience helping businesses and entrepreneurs around the world in a wide variety of sectors achieve remarkable success. In the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. And they happen to be entrepreneurs themselves, with an enlightened business model that enables Marker to focus purely on making intelligent investments, with no sector, stage or geographical limitations.

NYC Management:
Rick Scanlon, Cofounder
Thomas Pompidou, Cofounder

Current Investment Team Size: 18

Sector Focus: Advertising, Video, Curated Web

Portfolio/Investments:  20+ (Yext, Taboola, Dynamic Yield, Mobile Spaces)

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The Vedas Group

The Vedas Group is a venture capital and advisory business focused on seed and early-stage venture investments in private, technology-enabled companies located primarily in the United States. Vedas also helps incubate promising entrepreneurs and advises small and medium sized business in strategic planning and development. Vedas seeks out companies that attack billion-dollar market opportunities with distinctive leadership teams, disruptive technologies, and business models built upon sustainable competitive advantages.

NYC Management:
Aditya Mattoo, Founder & Managing Partner
Shreyas Slater Chityala, Founder & Managing Partner
Sridhar Chityala, Chairman & Founder

Current Investment Team Size: 4

Sector Focus: Healthcare IT, Medical Devices, Ecommerce, FinTech

Portfolio/Investments:  2 (Linksys, Pathgather)

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SOS Ventures

SOS Ventures has offices in Ireland, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Austin, TX, China – and coming soon: New York City. Made up of a team of founders and serial entrepreneurs, SOS accelerates startups with mentoring and finance, and run unique, high-value accelerator programs that they believe provide great value to entrepreneurs, serving and supporting them with breakthrough mentoring, world-class demo days, and distribution and sales assistance.

NYC Management:
Sean O’Sullivan, Partner

Current Investment Team Size: 18 

Sector Focus: Software, Mobile, Games

Portfolio/Investments:  100+ (Nextly, OrderWithMe, Social Bicycles, Skynet labs, Food-X Accelerator)

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Pivot Investment Partners

Pivot Investment Partners LLC is a team of CEO-level operating executives who have grown and transformed financial services businesses around the world, and share deep experience in markets where information, technology and scalable processes are critical drivers of success.

Pivot works closely with a select set of high-potential financial services and FinTech companies, investing operating expertise and capital in their success and accelerated growth. Each engagements is tailored to company-specific needs, including access to broader pools of capital, and the focus is on building distinctive, innovative and customer-centric businesses.

NYC Management:
Akbar Poonawala, Cofounder
Dinkar Jetley, Cofounder
Larry Klane, Cofounder

Current Investment Team Size: 3

Sector Focus: Payments and Transaction Processing, Risk and Compliance Solutions, Alternative Credit, Wealth Management Platforms, Capital Markets Technology and Infrastructure