Today, I take a look at the 10 largest Series B startup funding rounds in NYC history using some data from our friends at Crunchbase. In addition to dollar amount of the round, I have included industry focal point, round type, year of funding investors in the round, and total capital raised to further the analysis. This list only contains venture financings and does not include private equity and debt rounds.
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- $41.5M
Round: Series B
Focus:
E-Commerce, Fashion, Retail
Investors in the Round:
Lead – General Catalyst Partners, Millard Drexler, Andrew Mitchell, Felicis Ventures, Spark Capital, American Express Ventures, Bullish, Red Swan Ventures, Grace Beauty Capital, MentorTech Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$215M
- Gilt Groupe $43M
Round: Series B
Focus:
E-Commerce, Fashion, Furniture, Lifestyle, Shopping
Investors in the Round:
General Atlantic, Matrix Partners
Total Capital raised:
$271M
- $45M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Education, STEM Education
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Leon Kamenev
Total Capital raised:
$58.1M
- Right Media $45M (Acquired by Yahoo!)
Round: Series B
Focus:
Advertising, Digital Media, Marketplace
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Yahoo!
Total Capital raised:
$52.25M
- littleBits Electronics $46.7M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Electronics, Manufacturing, Open Source
Investors in the Round:
Lead – DFJ Growth, Grishin Robotics, Foundry Group, VTF Capital (fka VegasTechFund), Morgan Stanley, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, Khosla Ventures, Wamda Capital, Two Sigma Ventures, True Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$62.34M
- Space.com $50M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Content, Content Delivery Network, Space Travel
Investors in the Round:
Blue Chip Venture Company, PaineWebber, NBC Universal, Venrock, Greylock Partners
Total Capital raised:
$50M
- Cadre $50M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Financial Services, FinTech, Marketplace, Real Estate
Investors in the Round:
Undisclosed
Total Capital raised:
$68.3M
- $55M
Round: Series B
Focus:
E-Commerce, Lifestyle, Retail
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Lead – IVP (Institutional Venture Partners), blisce/, SV Angel, QueensBridge Venture Partners, Bullish, Norwest Venture Partners – NVP, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Scooter Braun, Leonardo DiCaprio, Correlation Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Cherry Tree Investments, Slow Ventures, Tobey Maguire, Adam Levine, Vaizra Investments
Total Capital raised:
$69.7M
- Birchbox $60M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Beauty, E-Commerce, Internet
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Viking Global Investors, Vayner/RSE, Brand Capital, Accel Partners, Glynn Capital Management, Andrew Mitchell, Slow Ventures, Grace Beauty Capital, Bullish, First Round, Aspect Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$86.9M
- $67.8M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Fertility, Health Care, Information Technology, mHealth
Investors in the Round:
SR One, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, TPG Biotech, Mellon Ventures, Merck Ventures, Union Grove Venture Partners
Total Capital raised:
Undisclosed
- Defy Media $70M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Internet
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Wellington Management
Total Capital raised:
$70M
- Oscar $80M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Health Care, Information Technology, Insurance
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Formation 8, Velos Partners, Breyer Capital, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, Stanley Druckenmiller, Founders Fund, General Catalyst Partners
Total Capital raised:
$727.5M
- DigitalOcean $83M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Web Hosting
Investors in the Round:
Lead – Access Industries, Andreessen Horowitz
Total Capital raised:
$123.4M
- letgo $100M
Round: Series B
Focus:
E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Investors in the Round:
Insight Venture Partners, Naspers, FJ Labs, NextView Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Northzone, Accel Partners, Eight Roads Ventures
Total Capital raised:
$375M
- Behalf $119M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Finance, FinTech, Internet of Things, Payments
Investors in the Round:
Lead – MissionOG, Victory Park Capital, Ron Suber, Vintage Investment Partners, Sequoia Capital, Maverick Ventures Israel, Spark Capital
Total Capital raised:
$156M
- Flatiron Health $130M
Round: Series B
Focus:
Cloud Computing, Health Care, Internet
Investors in the Round:
Lead – GV, First Round, LabCorp
Total Capital raised:
$313M