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 8/1 including the NYC startup fundings, NYC startup exits, and NYC Tech events including news for Ro, Tire Agent, Bite, and much more…
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Ro, the digital telehealth company that operates Roman, Rory, and Zero, has raised $200M in Series C funding from investors that include General Catalyst, FirstMark Capital, Torch Capital, SignalFire, TQ Ventures, Initialized Capital, 3L, BoxGroup, and The Chernin Group to become New York’s newest unicorn. Founded by Rob Schutz, Saman Rahmanian, and Zachariah Reitano in 2017, Ro has now raised a total of $376.1M in reported equity funding. AlleyWatch published an exclusive interview with Reitano on R0’s Series C funding round.
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Stack Overflow, the knowledge platform for the developer community, has raised $85M in Series E funding from investors that include Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures, GIC, and Silver Lake Waterman. Founded by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008, Stack Overflow has now raised a total of $153M in reported equity funding.
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Investor communications platform Mediant raised $18.5M led by The Argentum Group, additional investors include First Analysis, Mathers Associates, and Compo Seven Capital. Mediant was founded by Arthur Rosenzweig and Paul Torre in 2002 and has raised a total of $28.8M across three rounds.
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Proper, the holistic sleep solution, has raised $9.5M in venture funding from investors that include Case Verde Capital and Redesign Health. Proper was founded by Nancy Ramamurthi, Kamiu Lee, and David Berzin in 2020.
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GoServiceOne has raised $8.5M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $17.1M and that there were six investors in the round. Listed in the filing are Andrew Wang as an Executive and Brian McGrath, Tim Mayopoulos, Ilan Stern, and Angela Strange of Andreessen Horowitz as Directors. GoServiceOne was formed in 2019 and previously raised $2.7M last summer.
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Bite, the makers of intelligent self-ordering kiosks for restaurants, has raised $5.3M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The total offering is for $6.5M and there nineteen investors in this close. Investors in previous rounds include SOSV, FOOD-X, One Way Ventures, Tamarisc Ventures, and TIA Ventures. Founded by Etkin Tekin, Jeff Hong, Stanislav Nikiforov, and Steve Truong in 2015, Bite has now raised a total of $6.4M in reported equity funding.
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Tire Agent, the online tire retailer, has raised $5M in venture funding from investors that include American Family Ventures, ERA, Sidekick Fund, NY Angels, and HBS Angels. Tire Agent was founded by Brandon Amey and Jared Kugel in 2017 and has now raised a total of $5.85M in reported funding.
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Injective Protocol, decentralized derivatives exchange protocol, has raised $2.6M in Seed funding from investors that include Pantera Capital, Innovating Capital, BoxOne Ventures, K42, The Cabin Capital, BitScale, QCP Soteria, Axia8 Ventures, Bitlink Capital, and Krypital Group. Injective Protoco was founded by Eric Chen (NYU) and Albert Chon (Stanford) in 2018.
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Spotter, the next-generation truck dispatching platform, has raised $2.1M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that there were four investors in the round. Founded by Peidi Wu and Gabriel Stonys in 2019, Spotter has now raised a total of $2.2M in reported equity funding. Spotter participated in Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator’s Winter 2020 program.
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Techmate Technologies, software company providing on-demand tech support for small businesses, raised $1.2M from Comeback Capital, Bread and Butter Ventures, Hustle Fund, and LAUNCH. Techmate was founded in 2016 by David Brock and Nicole Beals.
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