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12/23/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/22/2025 featuring funding details for FINNY, Thread, and much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/22/2025 featuring funding details for FINNY, Thread, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/22/2025

17 new deals and $1.06B invested into NYC startups for the week. NYC Tech News for the week ending 12/20 featuring news for Cyera, Imprint, Octane, and much, much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for the week ending 12/20 featuring funding details for Cyera, Imprint, Octane, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/22/2025

The notable startup funding rounds for the week ending 12/20/25 featuring funding details for Looma, Tebra, Orreco, and twenty-four other deals representing $6.4B 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 12/20/25 featuring funding details for Looma, Tebra, Orreco...

12/19/2025

Over $15T in goods flow through global supply chains annually, yet the data required to optimize this movement is disconnected and siloed. Now backed by Paine Schwartz Partners—the largest PE firm dedicated to sustainable food chain investing—Crisp just closed $26M to expand its vertical AI platform that's already trusted by 7,000+ brands. With their new AI Agent Studio automating supply chain decisions in real time, find out how this platform is helping retailers and CPG brands move from manual data processing to zero-waste operations.

12/19/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/18/2025 featuring funding details for Imprint, Alaffia Health, and much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/18/2025 featuring funding details for Imprint, Alaffia Health, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/18/2025

Shadow AI has caused one in six data breaches this year, yet 97% of organizations admit they lack proper AI access controls. Fakespot founder Saoud Khalifah just raised $2.5M to solve what traditional firewalls cannot: securing AI systems that operate in ways today's tools can't predict. With Ciphero's AI Verification Layer, enterprises can finally see and govern every AI interaction across their workforce—including the shadow AI activity happening right now in 80% of companies. Discover why investors are betting on AI that judges AI.

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating faster than organizations can secure it. While 62% of companies now deploy agentic AI systems internally and 78% of employees bring their own AI tools to work, 97% of organizations lack proper access controls and 63% have no internal governance framework whatso...

12/17/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/17/2025 featuring funding details for DataLane, Dux Security, and much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/17/2025 featuring funding details for Cyera, DataLane, Dux Security, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/17/2025

While fintechs scramble for profitability, Octane just closed $100M at GAAP profitability with 30% year-over-year originations growth. The company that makes buying motorcycles, RVs, and boats as easy as ordering an Uber has now originated over $7B in loans and launched a white-label platform that lets manufacturers offer financing without building their own captive lenders. Valar Ventures called this "one of the best tech companies that can compound for far longer than expected." Find out why...

Large-ticket recreational purchases have long been hampered by fragmented financing processes that leave both dealers and consumers frustrated with slow decisions and limited credit options. While Americans spend $150B annually across powersports, RV, marine, and outdoor power equipment markets, the...

12/16/2025

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/16/2025 featuring funding details for Nanit, Echo, and much more.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/16/2025 featuring funding details for Adaptive Security, Nanit, Echo, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

12/16/2025

While special education spending tops $100B annually, chronic staffing shortages leave millions of students waiting months for legally required services. Parallel Learning just closed a $20M Series B with data showing 98% of students met or exceeded IEP goals through their virtual platform—a stark contrast to traditional models struggling with compliance and burnout. With districts legally required to provide services regardless of budget uncertainty, delve into why this model addresses one of education's most structurally durable markets.

America’s special education system faces a crisis that jeopardizes the futures of millions of students. With 7.5M students requiring specialized services annually and chronic shortages of speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, and special educators, districts spend over $100B yet stru...

12/15/2025

A quarter of a billion in new capital deployed including funding for NYC's two newest unicorns.

The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/15/2025 featuring funding details for Octane, Esusu, Axion, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.

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.