The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 11/6/2023 featuring funding details for Nowsta, Llama, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Nowsta – $35M
Nowsta, a flexible workforce management platform, has raised $35M in Series C funding from investors that include led by VMG Partners and Builders VC. Founded by Armand Patella and Nicholas Lillios in 2015, Nowsta has now raised a total of $87.1M in reported equity funding.AlleyWatch broke the news in an exclusive covering the round and much more – Nowsta Raises Another $35M to Help Employers Find and Manage Flexible Workforces
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Llama – $6M
Llama, an access control and governance platform for smart contracts, has raised $6M in Seed funding from investors that include FJ Labs, Founders Fund, Amplify Partners, Elad Gil, Electric Capital, Sandeep Nailwal, Stani Kulechov, Nathan McCauley, Will Gaybrick, Reverie, sina habibian, and Viktor Bunin. Llama was founded by Shreyas Hariharan and Austin Green in 2020.
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Daytona – $2M
Daytona, a self-hosted development environment management platform, has raised $2M in Pre-Seed funding from investors that include 500 Global, Tiny VC, Firestreak Ventures, Darkmode Ventures, Christian Bach, Silicon Gardens, Abhinav Asthana, Zachary Smith, Paul Copplestone, Ben Lang, David Apple, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Jacob Smith, Cassidy Williams, Luka Sucic, Zach Holman, Grace Francisco, Surabhi Gupta, Ilya Lyamkin, Damir Sabol, Zach Lloyd, Moataz Soliman, Milin Desai, Charity Majors, Luke Kanies, Kareem Kouddous, Jesse Miller, Prashanth Chandrasekar, Izet Zdralovic, Tomislav Car, Borja Burgos, Andrew Rollins, Derek Kleinow, Jernej Strasner, Sead Ahmetovic, Aaron Kimball, Jon Natty Natkins, Nikola Pavesic, Edi Sinovcic, Pierre Louis Théron, Jurica Cerovec, Alan Sumina, Luka Abrus, Brian Douglas, Ekene Eze, Bukky Adebayo, Jason Berry, Domagoj Vuksa, Merci Victoria Grace, Michael Rybintsev, Oliver de Albuquerque, Ian Livingstone, Nikolay Rodionov, Traycho Ivanov, Jose Vargas, Marin Tvrdic, Martin Morava, Eugene Yan, and Shawn Wang. Daytona was founded by Ivan Burazin, Goran Draganic, and Vedran Jukic in 2023.
