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 the things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News for the week ending 10/19 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Thimble, Flashpoint, DiligenceVault, and much more…
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Thimble, the on-demand insurance platform for independent short-term and gig workers, has raised $22M in Series A funding from investors that include Slow Ventures, AXA Venture Partners, OpenOcean, and IAC. Founded by Eugene Hertz and Jay Bregman in 2016, Thimble has now raised a total of $28.9M in reported equity funding. The company just rebranded and was previously known as Verifly. We covered Verifly last summer – This NYC Startup Makes Short Term Insurance Accessible to Freelancers Through One Click.
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We caught up with Jon Keidan, Founder and Managing Partner at Torch Capital, the early-stage consumer-focused venture firm, investing out of its inaugural $60M fund that closed earlier this year in this week’s installments of Inside the Mind of a NYC VC.
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DiligenceVault, the digital diligence platform for asset managers and allocators, has raised $6M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $7.1M and that thirteen investors participated in this close. DiligenceVault was founded by Monel Amin in 2014.
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We covered all the news from venture capital firms in NYC for the first half of October 2019 featuring must-know news including news for BoxGroup, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Beacon, and much more. CLICK HERE
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We analyzed every single NYC startup funding round for September 2019 in the AlleyWatch September 2019 New York Venture Capital Funding Report
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Flashpoint, the business risk intelligence, has raised $6M in new venture funding. Confirmed investors in previous rounds include Georgian Partners, Greycroft Partners, TechOperators, K2 Intelligence, Jump Capital, Leaders Fund, Bloomberg Beta, and Cisco Investments. Founded by Evan Kohlmann, Josh Devon, Josh Lefkowitz, and Laith Alkhouri in 2010, Flashpoint has now raised a total of $55.3M in reported equity funding.
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ZitSitcka, the acne treatment solution, has raised $5M in Series A funding from investors that include Interplay Ventures, Silas Capital, Boulder Food Group (‘BFG’), and Propeller Industries. ZitSitcka was founded in 2017.
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Toggle, the construction robotic platform that focuses on the fabrication of concrete, has raised $3M in Seed funding from investors that include Mark Cuban, Point72 Ventures, and Twenty Seven Ventures. Founded by Daniel Blank and Ian Cohen in 2016, Toggle has now raised a total of $3.57M in reported equity funding.
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Otherland, the online candle brand, has raised $2.7M in Seed funding from investors that include Lerer Hippeau, Global Founders Capital, Correlation Ventures, Fernbrook Capital Management LLC, Iqram Magdon-Ismail, Cleo Capital, Nadia Boujarwah, and Lydia Gilbert. Otherland was founded by Abigail Stone and Sayyid Markar in 2017.
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Paragon Intel, the analytics and research platform for management to track corporate executives, has raised $2.4M in Series A funding. Founded in 2017, Paragon Intel has now raised a total of $4.2M in reported equity funding.
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Redesign Science, the company using computational chemistry to enhance molecular drug discovery, has raised $2M in Seed funding from investors that include Morningside Venture Capital, Third Kind Venture Capital, Refactor Capital, Notation Capital, and Thomas Weingarten. Redesign Science was founded by David Rooklin in 2017.
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TLATech has raised $425K in funding as a convertible note according to a recent SEC filing. The total offering is for $700K and this close comes from nine investors. Jeffrey Chivers and Theodore Rostow, both attorneys, are listed as executives in the company.
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