This week, I take a look at the 20 companies that have raised the largest startup funding rounds in New York City this year using some data from our friends at Crunchbase (as of 7/23). In addition to dollar amount, I have included industry, round, investors in the round, and total capital raised to further the analysis. As I know that all of these companies are hiring, I have also included the number of open positions (747) that are available at each as of the time of this writing, according to their respective websites. I am hopeful that this will be useful for the job seekers out there and I am sure that the service providers will use this information for their own benefit. Lastly, in order to maintain a focus on conventional tech startups, pharmaceutical and biotech companies were removed from the data as well as the recent WeWork funding.
Quick Findings:
The 20 largest funding rounds in NYC in 2015 total $1.8B Tweet this
The total funding raised in NYC in 2015 is $5.2B Tweet this
There have been 476 rounds in NYC in 2015 Tweet this
The top 20 rounds comprise 35% of the total $ amount raised in NYC in 2015 Tweet this
20.8% of the largest startup rounds in NYC in 2015 were for companies founded by at least 1 woman Tweet this
54% of the largest startup rounds in NYC in 2015 were for companies founded by at least 1 Ivy league graduate Tweet this
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littleBits Electronics $22.7M
Round: Series B
Industry:
Hardware
Investors in the Round:
DFJ Growth
Khosla Ventures
Two Sigma Ventures
VegasTechFund
True Ventures
Foundry Group
Wamda Capital
Grishin Robotics
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners
Morgan Stanley
Total Capital raised:
$59.8M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
11
Namely $45M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Enterprise
Investors in the Round:
Greenspring Associates
Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Matrix Partners
True Ventures
Sequoia Capital
Total Capital raised:
$77.8M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
27
InVision $45M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Design Software
Investors in the Round:
Accel Partners
FirstMark Capital
Jason Finger
Tiger Global Management
Total Capital raised:
$80.2M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
15
Sprinklr $46M
Round: Series E
Industry:
Messaging
Investors in the Round:
Tim Draper
Ram Shiram
SV Angel
Mousse Partners
RRE Ventures
August Capital
Total Capital raised:
$123.5
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
20
Refinery 29 $50M
Round: Series D
Industry:
Fashion Media
Investors in the Round:
Matt Coffin
Tom Glocer
Canaan Partners
Contour Venture Partners
TTV Capital
Tribeca Venture Partners
Thayer Street Partners
Total Capital raised:
$77.8M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
23
Gilt Groupe $50M
Round: Series F
Industry:
E-Commerce
Investors in the Round:
General Atlantic
Total Capital raised:
$286M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
38
Casper $55M
Round: Series B
Industry:
Bedding
Investors in the Round:
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Adam Levine
Correlation Ventures
Leonardo DiCaprio
New Enterprise Associates
Norwest Venture Partners – NVP
Pritzker Group Venture Capital
QueensBridge Venture Partners
Scooter Braun
Slow Ventures
SV Angel
Tobey Maguire
Vaizra Investments
Total Capital raised:
$70M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
9
Moda Operandi $60M
Round: Series E
Industry:
Ecommerce
Investors in the Round:
Fidelity Investments
Advance Publications
LVMH
New Atlantic Ventures
New Enterprise Associates
RRE Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$138.4M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
7
Kobalt $60M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Digital Rights Management
Investors in the Round:
Google Ventures
Michael Dell
Total Capital raised:
$116M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
4
Betterment $60M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Fintech
Investors in the Round:
Francisco Partners
Anthemis Group
Bessemer Venture Partners
Menlo Ventures
Northwestern Mutual
Total Capital raised:
$105M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
26
SeatGeek $62M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Ticketing
Investors in the Round:
Technology Crossover Ventures
Accel Partners
Causeway Media Partners
Fabrice Grinda
Jason Finger
Jose Marin
Mousse Partners
Sean Black
Total Capital raised:
$103M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
20
AppNexus $62.7M
Round: Series F
Industry:
AdTech
Investors in the Round:
Not disclosed
Total Capital raised:
$288.2M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
99
Vital $65M
Round: Series C
Industry:
E-Commerce, MedTech
Investors in the Round:
Not disclosed
Total Capital raised:
$71.2M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
6
Harry’s $75.6M
Round: Series C
Industry:
E-commerce
Investors in the Round:
Wellington Management
Total Capital raised:
$287.1M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
20
Mongo DB $80M
Round: Series G
Industry:
Cloud
Investors in the Round:
Altimeter Capital
Goldman Sachs
New Enterprise Associates
Sequoia Capital
T. Rowe Price
Total Capital raised:
$311.1M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
54
DigitalOcean $83M
Round: Series B
Industry:
Cloud
Investors in the Round:
Access Industries
Andreessen Horowitz
Total Capital raised:
$173.2M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
30
Checkmarx $84M
Round: Series B
Industry:
Security
Investors in the Round:
Insight Venture Partners
Total Capital raised:
$92M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
27
Saavn $100M
Round: Series C
Industry:
Streaming Music
Investors in the Round:
Tiger Global Management
Bertelsmann
Liberty Media
Mousse Partners
Steadview Capital
Total Capital raised:
$110M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
26
Taboola $117M
Round: Series E
Industry:
AdTech
Investors in the Round:
Fidelity Management & Research
Advance Publications
Carlo de Benedetti
Comcast Ventures
Groupe Arnault/LVMH
Marker
Yahoo! JAPAN
Total Capital raised:
$160M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
22
HelloFresh $126M
Round: Series E
Industry:
E-Commerce
Investors in the Round:
Rocket Internet
Total Capital raised:
$193.5M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
28
Dataminr $130M
Round: Series D
Industry:
Analytics
Investors in the Round:
Fidelity
Credit Suisse
Fabrice Grinda
Institutional Venture Partners (IVP)
John Mack
Jose Marin
Nicolas Berggruen
Noam Gottesman
Tom Glocer
Venrock
Vikram Pandit
Wellington Management
Total Capital raised:
$179.6M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
11
Blue Apron $135M
Round: Series D
Industry:
E-Commerce
Investors in the Round:
Jason Finger
BoxGroup
Bessemer Venture Partners
Stripes Group
Fidelity Investments
Total Capital raised:
$193M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
85
Oscar $145M
Round: Venture
Industry:
Insurance
Investors in the Round:
Brian Singerman
Peter Thiel
Goldman Sachs
Li Ka-shing
Wellington Management
Total Capital raised:
$295M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
64
FanDuel $275M
Round: Series E
Industry:
Fantasy Sports
Investors in the Round:
KKR
Bullpen Capital
Comcast Ventures
Google Capital
NBC Sports Ventures
Pentech Ventures
Piton Capital
Shamrock Capital Advisors
Time Warner Investments
Total Capital raised:
$361.2M
Number of available jobs on company website (as of 7/15)
26
