The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 8/3/2020 featuring funding details for MikMak and much more.
#NYCtech Week in Review: 7/26/20-8/1/20
The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report: 8/3/20
The notable startup fundings for the week ending 8/1/20 featuring funding details for OpenSpace, Ro, Tempo, Circle, and much much more.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/31/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/31/2020 featuring funding details for Spotter, Bite, and much more.
Yotta Savings Gamifies Savings by Letting Users Enroll in a Weekly Lottery for Every $25 Saved
Americans spend over $80B on the lottery, but 40% of people can’t come up with $400 in case of an emergency. Adam Moelis and Yotta Savings are using behavioral psychology to address the savings crisis. The app is a savings app with a gamification component. For every $25 saved, users are entered into a weekly lottery for prizes that range from 10 cents to $10M. Adam shares more about the Prize-linked savings app, the company’s future plans, and the impact COVID has had on savings.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/30/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/30/2020 featuring funding details for Injective Protocol and much more.
Curv Raises $23M to Help Enterprises Prevent Cyberattacks on Digital Assets
Distributed ledger trading and new crypto finance products are swiftly being adopted by financial institutions across the globe. Curv unlocks this market for participants and accelerates institutional adoption of its security infrastructure. The company’s unique multi-party computation (MPC) technology eliminates the need for private keys on obsolete hardware and is completely cloud-based. CEO and Cofounder Itay Malinger shares more on the partnerships that traction the company has built, the security benefits of the technology, fundraising during the pandemic, and the company’s latest round of funding, which brings the total funding raised to $29.5M since 2018.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/29/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/29/2020 featuring funding details for GoServiceOne and much more.
Ro Raises $200M to Become NYC’s Newest Unicorn
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of nearly anything that can be done remotely and telehealth has been one of the immediate beneficiaries. Ro is the digital telehealth company whose digital clinics allow patients to leverage technology for affordable access to common health services. With this latest funding, Ro has tripled its valuation from in the last fifteen months since its Series B (this round comes at a $1.5B valuation) and is on pace to do $250M in revenue this year. We caught up with CEO and Cofounder Zachariah Reitano to learn more about the company’s impressive growth, plans to double the size of its engineering team, and the latest round of funding from investors that include General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital, Torch Capital, SignalFire, TQ Ventures, Initialized Capital, 3L, BoxGroup, and The Chernin Group.
The AlleyWatch Startup Daily Funding Report: 7/28/2020
The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 7/28/2020 featuring funding details for Stack Overflow and much more.
MeetElise Raises $6.5M for its AI-Powered Assistant for Rentals
COVID has brought contactless to the forefront in situations where technology can replace human interaction. This societal shift has had a significant impact on the real estate industry, forcing it to reexamine how to better serve and communicate in times where in-person interactions are not advisable. MeetElise has built an AI personal assistant that helps leasing agents manage the rental process and respond immediately to prospect leads, questions, and even schedule guided tours. The company’s growth is up 50% during COVID. CEO Minna Song shares more about how the platform is simplifying the rental process with AI, how leasing agents are reclaiming 2-3 hours a day with automation, and the company’s recent funding from investors that include Navitas Capital, AvalonBay Communities, and Equity Residential