The latest venture capital, seed, pre-seed, and angel deals for NYC startups for 12/1/2021 featuring funding details for Pepper, Algofi, and much more. This page will be updated throughout the day to reflect any new fundings.
Pepper — $16M – Series A
Pepper, an e-commerce platform for food distributors, has raised $16M in Series A funding from investors that include Index Ventures, Greylock, BoxGroup, Imaginary Ventures, Moving Capital, and Brett Schulman. Founded by Bowie Cheung, Chetan Narain, and Ivana Tesanovic in 2019, Pepper has now raised a total of $20M in reported equity funding.
Algofi — $2.8M – Seed
Algofi, a lending market and stablecoin protocol built on the Algorand Blockchain, has raised $2.8M in Seed funding from investors that include led by Union Square Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, and Pillar VC. Founded by Owen Colegrove and John Clarke in 2021, Algofi has now raised a total of $2.9M in reported equity funding.
Massive — $11M – Seed
Massive, an SDK that allows people to earn digital currency by lending their computer processing power, has raised $11M in Seed funding from investors that include Coinbase Ventures, Point72 Ventures, BlockTower Capital, CoinShares, Sriram Krishnan, Ryan Selkis, Packy McCormick, Kraken Ventures, and Prabhakar Reddy. Massive was founded by Jason Grad and Brian Kennish in 2018.
RedRoute — $7.4M – funding according to a recent SEC filing
RedRoute, a Voice AI platform to automate customer service, has raised $7.4M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that the total offering is for $8.2M and there were twenty-three investors in the round. Founded by Brian Schiff and Samuel Krut in 2017, RedRoute has now raised a total of $9.3M in reported equity funding.
Mondrian Labs — $7.8M – funding according to a recent SEC filing
Mondrian Labs, the company building brands through the use of data-driven influencer marketing,, has raised $7.8M in funding according to a recent SEC filing. The filing indicates that this round comes from ten investors. Founded by Matthew Holmes in 2018, Mondrian Labs has now raised a total of $17M in reported equity funding.

