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 10/26 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Blueground, Koio, Squarespace, and much more…
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Blueground, the flexible furnished apartment provider, has raised $50M in Series B funding from investors that include Prime Ventures and Westcap. Founded by Alexandros Chatzieleftheriou, Alexis Maragkos, Andreas Nezeritis, Aneesa Arshad, Kurtulus Korkmaz, and Penny Papakonstantinou in 2013, Blueground has now raised a total of $77.4M in reported equity funding. AlleyWatch covered Blueground’s previous funding round in March in an exclusive interview.
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Grafana Labs, the open-source analytics and monitoring platform for databases, has raised $24M in Series A funding from investors that include Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lead Edge Capital. Founded by Anthony Woods, Raj Dutt, and Torkel Odegaard in 2014, Grafana Labs has now raised a total of $25.2M in reported equity funding.
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Current, the modern banking platform, has raised $20M in Series B funding led by Wellington Management. Founded by Stuart Sopp in 2015, Current has now raised a total of $29.6M in reported equity funding.
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In our latest installment of Inside the Mind of a NYC VC, we sat down with Kapil Desai, Vice President at Catalyst Investors, one of New York’s first growth equity firms, which was founded in 2000. Currently investing out of its fourth fund, which closed at $377M in 2015, Catalyst has made investments in names like ChowNow, MINDBODY, MediaMath, WeWork, and WeddingWire with a research-driven focus on tech-enabled businesses. Read the full interview here – Inside the Mind of a NYC VC: Kapil Desai of Catalyst Investors
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Firedome, the cybersecurity solution for IoT devices, has raised $10M in Series A funding from investors that include Two Sigma Ventures, World Trade Ventures (WTV), and Silvertech Ventures. Firedome was founded by Moti Shkolnik, Orr Chen, and Sharon Mirsky in 2018 and has now raised a total of $14.5M in funding.
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Starship, the mobile health savings account, has raised $7M in venture funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing lists James Fitzgerald of Valar Ventures and Michael Sidgmore of Broadhaven Ventures as Directors. Starship was founded by Christoph Oberhofe, Adam Pruden, and Sean Engelking in 2016.
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Narrator, the data-as-a-service platform, has raised $6.1M in venture according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that twelve investors participated in the round and list Jesse Middleton from Flybridge and Vincent Chu of Initalized Capital as Directors. Founded by Ahmed Elsamadisi in 2017, Narrator has now raised a total of $7.6M in reported equity funding.
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KOIO, the luxury sneaker brand, has raised an additional $6M in Series A2 funding. Founded by Chris Wichert and Johannes Quodt in 2014, KOIO has now raised a total of $10.3M in reported equity funding. We have an exclusive interview with the founding team on this round KOIO’s Series A2 round.
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Cogni, has raised $5.4M in Seed funding from investors that include Hard Yaka, Barclays, WorldQuant Ventures LLC, Guggenheim Partners, CXO Fund, and Hanwha Investment Bank & Securities. Founded by Archie Ravishankar, Kam Patel, and Vincent Power in 2016, Cogni has now raised a total of $7.2M in reported equity funding.
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Scala Computing provides large-scale, high-performance computing for physic researchers raised $5M in Series A led by HardHill Trust. Scala has raised a total of $7.3M across four rounds, since being founded in 2015 by Arjun Kapoor.
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Squarespace has acquired Unfold, the app for creating engaging stories for Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Read AlleyWatch’s exclusive coverage here – Squarespace Acquires Social Stories Platform Unfold
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Taskade, has raised $5M in Seed funding from investors that include Y Combinator and Grishin Robotics. Founded by Dionis Loire, John Xie, and Stan Chang in 2017, Taskade has now raised a total of $5.2M in reported equity funding.
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The event management platform, Bizly, raised $3.8M in a Seed round led by Brand New Matter and including 12 other participants. Since being founded in 2016 by Ron Shah and Tor Miller, Bizly has raised a total of $5.3M across two rounds.
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Confetti, the platform for office activities and corporate outings, has raised $2.21M in Seed funding from investors that include led by Correlation Ventures. Founded by Lee Rubin in 2014, Confetti has now raised a total of $2.2M in reported equity funding.
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Algorithm Sciences has raised $2.1M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $6M and that this close comes from twenty-three investors. Matthew Duffy and Kamal Mubarak are listed in the filing as Executives along with Patrick Gallagher and James Ahern, who are listed as Directors.
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