NYC Tech News for the week ending 5/16 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Slice, Kustomer, Lolli, and much more. This was the busiest week for NYC startup activity since the pandemic started.
Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online. Founded by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter in 2018, Lolli is backed by investors that include Abe Burns, Adam Leber, Bain Capital Ventures, Chapter One Ventures, Company Ventures, Craft Ventures, Digital Currency Group, FJ Labs, Guy Oseary, Michelle Phan, Pathfinder, Pir Granoff, Sound Ventures, and Version One Ventures and is headquartered in New York.