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12/15/2025

21 new deals and $379M+ invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 12/13 featuring news for Radial, Benepass, Phia, and much, much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for the week ending 12/13 featuring funding details for Radial, Benepass, Phia, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/15/2025

The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 12/15/25 featuring funding details for Cleric, Ritten, Fal, and twenty-five other deals representing $2.53B in new funding that you need to know about.

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 12/15/25 featuring funding details for Cleric, Ritten, Fal,...

12/12/2025

Development teams can now ship code 100x faster with AI, but security still reviews only 15% of planned work manually. Prime Security just raised $20M led by Scale Venture Partners to close this dangerous gap with autonomous AI agents that conduct full security reviews in under 20 minutes. Working with PayPal and Qualtrics, they're achieving 100% coverage of development tasks while cutting manual security effort by more than 60%. Find out how the first Agentic Security Architect is making design-stage security finally scale with engineering.

As AI-assisted coding accelerates development velocity by orders of magnitude, security teams face an expanding crisis: they can manually review only 10-15% of planned work before release, leaving 85% to chance. This gap creates a dangerous paradox where development runs at machine speed while secur...

12/11/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/11/2025 featuring funding details for AIR Platforms, Keeper, and much more.

12/11/2025

McKinsey says agentic commerce could hit $1T in US retail by decade's end, but there's a problem: only Google, Amazon, and ChatGPT own the product data infrastructure. Channel3 just raised $6M from Matrix and Y Combinator founder Paul Graham to change that, building a universal product database that already covers 50 million products. The Duke-bred founders met while building their first startup together, and when Alexander Schiff couldn't find product data for an AI tutor he was building, he convinced his former Palantir engineer cofounder to leave and solve it. Now developers earn 5% commissions automatically while merchants get distribution into AI agents with zero technical work. Here's how they're building the infrastructure layer for the next era of shopping.

The shift from traditional e-commerce to AI-driven shopping is creating a fundamental infrastructure problem: while Google, Amazon, and ChatGPT command the agentic commerce channel through proprietary product data, independent developers and merchants lack access to the universal product intelligenc...

12/10/2025

Busy day in NYC tech with six new fundings totaling $153M, spanning sectors from circular economy textile recycling to parametric insurance for digital business interruptions.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/10/2025 featuring funding details for Crisp, Channel3, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/10/2025

When 77% of developers face permitting delays and San Francisco takes 33 months just to approve projects, the $1.6T construction industry has a pre-construction problem. PermitFlow just raised $54M from Accel to solve it with AI agents that have already automated $20B in construction value. With Dick's Sporting Goods, Lennar, and Amazon using the platform to navigate 7K+ jurisdictions and achieve 5X ROI, discover how automating permits could finally unlock America's housing supply at scale.

America’s $1.6T construction industry faces a critical infrastructure crisis: while housing starts reached 1.43M units in mid-2025, 77% of developers report permitting delays, with cities like San Francisco averaging 33 months just to secure approval. This pre-construction bottleneck has compounde...

12/09/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/9/2025 featuring funding details for Bags, Parallel Learning, and much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/9/2025 featuring funding details for Bags, Parallel Learning, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/09/2025

Everything you need to need to know about the largest NYC startup funding rounds of November 2025; broken down by industry, stage, investors, and more…

Armed with some data from our friends at CrunchBase, I broke down the largest NYC Startup funding rounds in New York for November 2025. I have included some additional information such as industry, description, round type, and total equity funding raised to further the analysis of the state of ventu...

12/08/2025

A busy day with TEN new fundings!

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/8/2025 featuring funding details for Cotto, Ply, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/08/2025

7 new deals and $469M+ invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 12/5 featuring news for Eon, Excelsior Sciences, PermitFlow, and much, much more.

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 12/5 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC startup events featuri...

12/08/2025

The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 12/6/25 featuring funding details for Ostium, Yoodli, Simular, and twenty-two other deals representing $1.93B in new funding that you need to know about.

The Weekly Notable Startup Funding Report takes us on a trip across various ecosystems in the US, highlighting some of the notable funding activity in the various markets that we track. The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 12/6/25 featuring funding details for Ostium, Yoodli, Simul...