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 a few of things that you may have missed in NYC Tech News this week including the fundings, exits, and events.
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And Co Ventures, the back office for freelancers, has raised $2.5M in their first round of funding. Investors included Designer Fund, Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, Red Swan Ventures, BoxGroup, Thrive Capital, RRE Ventures, and Index Ventures.
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, the student hackathon league, has raised a Seed round of $1M for the company’s first round of funding. Investors for the round included: Sundance DiGiovanni, Jeff Lawson, Chris Liddell, Grant Gittlin, Alexis Ohanian, hackNY, 1517 Fund, and General Catalyst Partners.
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released their 2015 Annual Report, highlighting the progress the organization has made over the last year in closing the gender gap in tech. Last year, the company raised $2.7M in funding and has now taught over 10,000 girls which is the same number of girls who graduate each year with a degree in computer science.
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, the on-demand insurance tech company, has raised a Seed round of $3.9M from Horizon Ventures and XL Innovate. Founders Stuart Baserman and Tim Attia’s, first round comes after launching just 7 months ago.
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Our friends at Crain’s released their 2016 class of the 40 under 40. This year’s class has a number of NYC tech entrepreneurs and investors including. Miki Agarwal, Ayah Bdeir, Anthony Casalena, Andras Forgacs, Oisin Hanrahan, Jukay Hsu, David Klein, Payal Kadakia, Philip Krim, Kegan Schowenburg, Ellie Wheeler, and Kal Vepuri.
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The goal based investment company, , has announced a $100M Series E round from Francisco Partners, Menlo Ventures, Anthemis Group, Bessemer Venture Partners and Investment AB Kinnevik. Founder Jon Stein and Eli Broverman’s company has now raised $205M over 6 rounds.
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, the company making travel easy, has raised $3.5M in their Seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from Basset Investment Group, Rachel Zoe,Silas Chou and Lerer Hippeau Ventures. This is the first round of funding for founder Josh Udashkin.
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, the mobile engagement platform, has raised a Venture round of $750K for the company’s second round of funding.
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, the refreshing soup company has announced a Series A round of $1.25M. This is founder Austin Allan’s first round.
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Mashable has raised $15M in a Series C round led by Turner Broadcasting with support from Time Warner Investments and Updata Partners. Founder Pete Cashmore’s company has now raised $46M over 3 rounds of funding.
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Cockroach Labs, the company providing world class open source infrastructure solutions, has raised $20M in a Series A round led by Index Ventures. Other investors included GV, FirstMark Capital and Benchmark for the company’s second round of funding.
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Cinderly, the first social app to personalize your feed by your style preferences, has raised $75K in Seed funding from Andrew Douglas and Heidi Kroner. This marks the first round of funding for founders Laura von Holt and Luke Stoffel.
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E-Line Media, the publishers of game based learning products to prepare for careers in tech, has raised a $5M Series B round. For founders Michael Angstadt and Alan Gershenfeld have raised a total of $8.93M over two rounds of funding.
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TopPatch, the cybersecurity geared toward companies, has raised a $1.88M Venture round for their 2nd round and $2.63M raised to date.
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Material Wrld, the trade in luxury clothing company, has raised a $9M Series B round led by Nissay Capital and Start Today CO.Ltd. The company has now raised $9.78M over 3 rounds.
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Here’s our curated list of a few NYC startup events for this week.
On Tuesday evening, the MIT Enterprise Forum NYC hosts award winning journalist Malcom Gay for a fireside chat – A Fireside Chat with Author Malcolm Gay at Pryor Cashman.
On Thursday afternoon, join an engaging forum that brings together experts from advertising, media, technology, and analytics to discuss the future of the marketing ecosystem – PeopleFront 2016 at The Paley Center of Media.
On Thursday evening, our friends from Stylemuse and Monarq are gathering women in tech in NYC for an evening of cocktails and conversation with Giorgio Rossi, cofounder of Lookbooker – Stylemuse & Monarq Ladies Social at the WeWork Penn Station.
On Saturday morning head to brunch with successful entrepreneur and investor Scott Belsky – brunchwork with Scott Belsky at Alley Chelsea.
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On Tuesday, April 12th join a number of key women in the startup ecosystem as they break down how to raise capital – Stylemuse #Startup101 Panel at WeWork Penn Station.
For a full listing of upcoming events for the NYC startup and tech community, please visit the AlleyWatch NYC Tech and Startup Event Calendar.
